Fiction
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1 NOTORIOUS NINETEEN, by Janet Evanovich. The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum joins with Joe Morelli to track down a con man who disappeared from a hospital; meanwhile, she takes a second job guarding Ranger. |
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2 THE FORGOTTEN, by David Baldacci. The military investigator John Puller, the protagonist of “Zero Day,” probes his aunt’s mysterious death in Florida. |
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3 AGENDA 21, by Glenn Beck with Harriet Parke. A girl begins to question the authorities who run the Republic, the totalitarian successor to the United States created by the U.N. |
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4 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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5 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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6 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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7 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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8 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? |
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9 FLIGHT BEHAVIOR, by Barbara Kingsolver. An Appalachian woman becomes involved in an effort to save monarch butterflies. |
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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 THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician. |
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2 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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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 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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6 ROLL ME UP AND SMOKE ME WHEN I DIE, by Willie Nelson. The musician muses on family, friends, Texas and life on the road. |
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7 BRUCE, by Peter A. Carlin. A biography of Bruce Springsteen traces his climb from a working-class childhood to success and fame. . |
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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 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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10 THE PATRIARCH, by David Nasaw. The life and times of Joseph P. Kennedy. |