Fiction
| 1 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? | |
| 2 ODD APOCALYPSE, by Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas, who can communicate with the dead, explores the mysteries of an old estate now owned by a billionaire. | |
| 3 WHERE WE BELONG, by Emily Giffin. A woman’s successful life is disrupted by the appearance of an 18-year-old girl with a link to her past. | |
| 4 FRIENDS FOREVER, by Danielle Steel. Three boys and two girls who meet in kindergarten maintain their bonds as they grow to adulthood. | |
| 5 BLACK LIST, by Brad Thor. If the counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath can discover who targeted him for death, he can prevent a terrorist attack | |
| 6 THE FALLEN ANGEL, by Daniel Silva. Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, discovers a global criminal enterprise behind a murder in Rome. | |
| 7 THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, by M. L. Stedman. An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore. | |
| 8 I, MICHAEL BENNETT, by James Patterson. A New York detective takes refuge with his 10 children in an upstate cabin. | |
| 9 SHADOW OF NIGHT, by Deborah Harkness. An Oxford scholar/witch and a vampire geneticist pursue history, secrets and each other in Elizabethan London. | |
| 10 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of “A Song of Ice and Fire.” |
NonFiction
| 1 WILD, by Cheryl Strayed.A woman’s account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. | |
| 2 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. | |
| 3 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. | |
| 4 DOUBLE CROSS, by Ben Macintyre. How the Allies tricked the Nazis into believing that on D-Day they would attack somewhere other than Normandy. | |
| 5 THE AMATEUR, by Edward Klein. A journalist argues that President Obama is callow and unable to lead. | |
| 6 STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. A biography of the entrepreneur and Apple visionary, who died in October 2011. | |
| 7 THE DREAM TEAM, by Jack McCallum. The 1992 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team. | |
| 8 THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. A Times reporter’s account of the science behind how we form, and break, habits. | |
| 9 RED INK, by David Wessel. A journalist reviews the politics behind the federal budget, explores where the money goes and argues that current trends are unsustainable. | |
| 10 I HATE EVERYONE . . . STARTING WITH ME, by Joan Rivers. The comedian’s humorous reflections. |
