Fiction
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1 PRIVATE BERLIN, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan. A superstar agent at the German headquarters of an investigation firm disappears. |
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2 A MEMORY OF LIGHT, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. The 14th and final novel in the Wheel of Time fantasy series. |
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3 SUSPECT, by Robert Crais. A Los Angeles policeman and a German shepherd, both suffering from PTSD, search for the killers of the cop’s partner. |
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4 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? |
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5 EVER AFTER, by Kim Harrison. The witch Rachel Morgan and an unlikely ally battle a demon in order to prevent an apocalypse. |
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6 TENTH OF DECEMBER, by George Saunders. Stories that take on the big questions. |
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7 THE FIFTH ASSASSIN, by Brad Meltzer. Tracking an assassin who is recreating the crimes of the four men who murdered presidents, Beecher White discovers that they all were working together. |
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8 THE THIRD BULLET, by Stephen Hunter. The veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger investigates the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
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9 THE RACKETEER, by John Grisham. Malcolm Bannister, an imprisoned ex-lawyer, knows who murdered a federal judge. And he concocts a scheme to exchange this information for his freedom. |
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10 THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, by Ayana Mathis. Fifty-some years in the life of an African-American family, starting with Hattie Shepherd, who leaves Georgia for Philadelphia in 1923. |
NonFiction
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1 MY BELOVED WORLD, by Sonia Sotomayor. The Supreme Court justice recalls growing up in the Bronx, attending Princeton, working for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and becoming a federal judge. |
| 2 FRANCONA, by Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy. The manager’s Red Sox years. | |
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3 GOING CLEAR, by Lawrence Wright. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the world of Scientology. |
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4 KILLING KENNEDY, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
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5 KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
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6 THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician. |
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7 NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. An account by a former member of the Navy SEALs, written pseudonymously, of the mission that killed bin Laden. |
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8 TO SELL IS HUMAN, by Daniel H. Pink. Insights from social science about how to move others. |
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9 A HIGHER CALL, by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander. An encounter between two pilots in the skies over Germany in December 1943. |
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10 THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY, by Jared Diamond. The author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” examines what we can learn from traditional societies. |