Fiction
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1 THE LAST MAN, by Vince Flynn. The counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp searches for a missing C.I.A. asset amid treachery in Afghanistan. |
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2 MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross confronts both a hostage situation and a terrorist act at Christmas. |
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3 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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4 SWEET TOOTH, by Ian McEwan. A British woman working for MI5 in 1972 falls in love with a writer the service is clandestinely supporting. |
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5 FLIGHT BEHAVIOR, by Barbara Kingsolver. An Appalachian woman becomes involved in an effort to save monarch butterflies. |
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6 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? |
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7 POSEIDON’S ARROW, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. Dirk Pitt and his team look for the truth about a sophisticated attack submarine. |
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8 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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9 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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10 CROSS ROADS, by Wm. Paul Young. A comatose businessman encounters Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God and learns to see through the eyes of others; from the author of “The Shack.” |
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 THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician. |
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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 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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5 HOW TO CREATE A MIND, by Ray Kurzweil. A new theory of how the thinking part of the brain works can help us create more intelligent machines. |
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6 THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE, by Nate Silver. An examination of predictions, the ones that come true and the ones that don’t. |
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7 THE JOY OF HATE, by Greg Gutfeld. The Fox News Channel host denounces liberal double standards and intolerance masquerading as tolerance. |
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8 THE LAST LION, by William Manchester and Paul Reid. This biography of Winston Churchill, reaching from World War II until his death in 1965. |
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9 FAR FROM THE TREE, by Andrew Solomon. The difficulties and triumphs of families dealing with exceptional children. |
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10 THE OUTPOST, by Jake Tapper. The story of a deadly Taliban attack on a remote American outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 sheds light on the war. |