Fiction

1. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
   Delia Owens
   A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. CAMINO WINDS
   John Grisham
   The line between fact and fiction becomes blurred when an author of thrillers is found dead after a hurricane hits Camino Island.
3. IF IT BLEEDS
   Stephen King
   Four novellas: “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” “The Life of Chuck,” “Rat” and “If It Bleeds.”
4. WALK THE WIRE
   David Baldacci
   The sixth book in the Memory Man series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town in a fracking boom.
5. THE 20TH VICTIM
   James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
   The 20th book in the Women’s Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer looks into the murders of disreputable persons in three separate cities.
6. BIG SUMMER
   Jennifer Weiner
   Daphne Berg’s former best friend asks her to be the maid of honor at her wedding in Cape Cod.
7. AMERICAN DIRT
   Jeanine Cummins
   A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.
8. THE LAST TRIAL
   Scott Turow
   An 85-year-old defense lawyer puts off his retirement to aid a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, who is accused of insider trading, fraud and murder.
9. ALL ADULTS HERE
   Emma Straub
   A repressed memory triggers Astrid Strick to weigh the outcomes of her parenting of her now-grown children.
10. THE BOOK OF LONGINGS
    Sue Monk Kidd
    A scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers.

NonFiction

1. UNTAMED
   Glennon Doyle
   The activist and public speaker describes her journey of listening to her inner voice.
2. BECOMING
   Michelle Obama
   The former first lady describes how she balanced work, family and her husband’s political ascent.
3. THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE
   Erik Larson
   An examination of the leadership of the prime minister Winston Churchill.
4. EDUCATED
   Tara Westover
   The daughter of survivalists leaves home for university.
5. PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION
   Judy Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively
   The controversial virologist gives her account of her work over nearly four decades.
6. THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY
   Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
   How Allan Pinkerton, along with undercover agents, thwarted a lesser-known assassination attempt of Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore in 1861.
7. THE MAMBA MENTALITY
   Kobe Bryant
   Various skills and techniques used on the court by the Los Angeles Lakers player.
8. HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD
   Robert Kolker
   From 1945 to 1965, a family in Colorado had 12 children, six of whom went on to develop schizophrenia.
9. FORTITUDE
   Dan Crenshaw
   The Texas congressman and former Navy SEAL prescribes ways to overcome adversity.
10. THE RURAL DIARIES
    Hilarie Burton Morgan
    The actress starts a family, transplants to a working farm and revitalizes a candy store in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

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