Fiction
16TH SEDUCTION by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. In San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club face their toughest case yet.
INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins. In this psychological thriller by the author of The Girl on the Train, women are found drowned in a river in an English town.
AGAINST ALL ODDS by Danielle Steel. A mother must learn to let her adult children make their own decisions.
THE FIX by David Baldacci. Detective Amos Decker (Memory Man) witnesses a murder-suicide that turns out to be a matter of national security.
GOLDEN PREY by John Sandford. Lucas Davenport, now a U.S. Marshal, pursues a thief who robbed a drug cartel and killed a child in Biloxi, Miss.
THE BROKEN ROAD by Richard Paul Evans. A successful man who is questioning his life gets a second chance. The first book in a trilogy.
THE BLACK BOOK by James Patterson and David Ellis. After a raid on a brothel that serviced Chicago’s elite, the madam’s black book has disappeared.
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE by Elizabeth Strout. A novel-in-stories about the lives of the inhabitants of the rural Illinois hometown of Lucy Barton, protagonist of Strout’s previous novel.
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles. A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest.
BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman. A hockey star is caught up in a scandal.
Nonfiction
ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY by Neil deGrasse Tyson. An easy-to-understand introduction to the universe and the forces and laws that govern it.
OPTION B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. Sandberg’s experience after her husband’s sudden death and Grant’s psychological research combine to provide insight on facing adversity and building resilience.
SHATTERED by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. An examination of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann. The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling FBI intervened, ineffectively.
THIS FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT by Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts senator calls for restored financial regulation, stronger social programs, and renewed investment in education, research and infrastructure.
THE OPERATOR by Robert O’Neill. The 400-mission career of a SEAL Team operator.
HILLBILLY ELEGY by J. D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his childhood.
OLD SCHOOL by Bill O’Reilly and Bruce Feirstein. A defense of traditional values.
THE AMERICAN SPIRIT by David McCullough. A collection of speeches by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, focused on American values.
HALLELUJAH ANYWAY by Anne Lamott. The importance of mercy in our lives.
Paperback fiction
THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood.
MILK AND HONEY by Rupi Kaur.
THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware.
LILAC GIRLS by Martha Hall Kelly.
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman.
Paperback nonfiction
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE by Diane Ackerman.
HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly.
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot.
ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder.
THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann.