Fiction

1 1 GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
1 2  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.
1 3  MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross confronts both a hostage situation and a terrorist act at Christmas.
1 4  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.
1 5   THREAT VECTOR, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. As China threatens to invade Taiwan, the covert intelligence expert Jack Ryan Jr. aids his father’s administration — but his agency is no longer secret.
6   CROSS ROADS, by Wm. Paul Young. A comatose businessman encounters Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God; from the author of “The Shack.”
1 7  THE FORGOTTEN, by David Baldacci. The military investigator John Puller, the protagonist of “Zero Day,” probes his aunt’s mysterious death in Florida.
1 8  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.
1 9   THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, by Ayana Mathis. Fifty-some years in the life of an African-American family, starting with Hattie Shepherd, who leaves Georgia for Philadelphia in 1923.
1 10  THE BLACK BOX, by Michael Connelly. In a case that spans 20 years, the Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the race riots.

NonFiction

1 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.
1 2  THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Jon Meacham. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist celebrates Jefferson’s skills as a practical politician.
1 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.
1 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.
1 5  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.
1 6   UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.
1 7   THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE, by Nate Silver. An examination of predictions, the ones that come true and the ones that don’t.
1 8   BRUCE, by Peter A. Carlin. A biography of Bruce Springsteen traces his climb from a working- class childhood to success and fame.
1 9  ROLL ME UP AND SMOKE ME WHEN I DIE, by Willie Nelson. The musician muses on family, friends, Texas and life on the road.
1 10  BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS, by Katherine Boo. A journalist reports on families striving for better lives in a Mumbai slum.