Fiction
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1 WINTER OF THE WORLD, by Ken Follett. In Book 2 of the Century trilogy, members of five interrelated families from five countries, some of them children of characters in the previous book, “Fall of Giants,” grapple with the tumultuous historical events of the years 1939-49. |
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2 A WANTED MAN, by Lee Child. A carload of people involved in a conspiracy pick up a disheveled hitchhiker, Child’s vigilante hero Jack Reacher. |
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3 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? |
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4 THE TIME KEEPER, by Mitch Albom. A fable about the inventor of the world’s first clock, who returns to our world after centuries of banishment; from the author of “Tuesdays With Morrie.” |
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5 LOW PRESSURE, by Sandra Brown. A woman makes disturbing discoveries — and acquires a stalker — when she writes a book about her sister’s murder. |
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6 SEVERE CLEAR, by Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington travels to Bel-Air for the opening of a luxury hotel, where terrorists have targeted the president. |
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7 TELEGRAPH AVENUE, by Michael Chabon. Fathers and sons in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif. |
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8 THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, by Junot Díaz. Stories of love, loss and family history from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. |
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9 ZOO, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. A young biologist warns world leaders about the reasons for escalating animal attacks on cities. |
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10 MIDST TOIL AND TRIBULATION, by David Weber. In Book 6 of the Safehold science fiction series, the republic of Siddamark descends into chaos. |
NonFiction
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1 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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2 THE PRICE OF POLITICS, by Bob Woodward. Inside the debt-ceiling negotations of 2011 with the Washington Post journalist. |
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3 JOSEPH ANTON, by Salman Rushdie. The novelist’s life for nearly 10 years under the Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence for writing “The Satanic Verses.” |
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4 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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5 THE OATH, by Jeffrey Toobin. The ideological battles between President Obama and the Supreme Court. |
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6 HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, by Paul Tough. The author argues that the qualities that matter most have to do with character, not intelligence. |
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7 THE AMATEUR, by Edward Klein. A journalist argues that President Obama is callow and unable to lead. |
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8 LIFE AFTER DEATH, by Damien Echols. The boyhood and prison life of a man who was released last year after serving 17 years on a wrongful conviction for the murder of three boys in Arkansas. |
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9 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. |
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10 OBAMA’S AMERICA, by Dinesh D’Souza. An argument that President Obama is the architect of American decline. |