Fiction
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1 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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2 THE SINS OF THE MOTHER, by Danielle Steel.An enormously successful businesswoman tries to make up for past failings with her children, now grown. |
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3 THE CASUAL VACANCY, by J. K. Rowling. The sudden death of a parish councilman reveals bitter social divisions in an idyllic English town; a novel for adults by the creator of Harry Potter. |
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4 THE PANTHER, by Nelson DeMille. Posted to Yemen, the anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey and his wife, an F.B.I. agent, pursue a high-ranking Qaeda operative — who is out to avenge the death of the Libyan terrorist Corey killed in New York. |
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5 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? |
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6 A WINTER DREAM, by Richard Paul Evans. When Joseph Jacobson stands to be anointed heir to his father’s agency, his 12 brothers cast him out. |
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7 THE BONE BED, by Patricia Cornwell. A paleontologist’s disappearance in Canada turns out to be connected to crimes much closer to home for the chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta; the 20th Scarpetta book. |
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8 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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9 ICED, by Karen Marie Moning. The first book in a new urban paranormal trilogy set in the world of the Fever series features Dani O’Malley. |
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10 NYPD RED, by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. Detective Zach Jordan and his beautiful partner (and ex-girlfriend) must stop a deranged killer who has targeted a glittering New York film festival. |
NonFiction
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1 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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2 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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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. |
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4 BRUCE, by Peter A. Carlin. A biography of Bruce Springsteen looks at his family, his music and his drive for fame and influence. |
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5 ROD, by Rod Stewart. The pop singer reminisces on his long career. |
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6 THE GENERALS, by Thomas E. Ricks. A history of American military command from World War II to the present. |
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7 A GIFT OF HOPE, by Danielle Steel. In this memoir, the novelist describes how she transformed the pain of the loss of her son into an enriching campaign of service. |
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8 AMERICA AGAIN, by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Tom Purcell et al.. The mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” tells how to bring America back from the brink. |
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9 WAGING HEAVY PEACE, by Neil Young. The rocker’s memoir ranges over his personal life and his music, including his days with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. |
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10 WHO I AM, by Pete Townshend. The rocker’s memoir. |