Fiction

1. A LEGACY OF SPIES
    John le Carré
   Peter Guillam, formerly of the British Secret Service, is pulled out of retirement to defend intelligence operations during the cold war that resulted in the deaths of people close to him.
2. SLEEPING BEAUTIES
   Stephen King and Owen King
   In a small Appalachian town, women who fall asleep don't wake up and become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one another.
3. MANHATTAN BEACH
   Jennifer Egan
   Anna Kerrigan, the first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II, meets with a man who helps her understand why her father disappeared.
4. A COLUMN OF FIRE
   Ken Follett
   The lovers Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict between English Catholics and Protestants while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne.
5. DON'T LET GO
   Harlan Coben
   Det. Napoleon Dumas investigates a murder and uncovers clues about the disappearance of his high school love and the death of his twin brother 15 years ago.
6. THE GIRL WHO TAKES AN EYE FOR AN EYE
   David Lagercrantz
   Lisbeth Salander teams up with an investigative journalist to uncover the secrets of her childhood. A continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series.
7. THE CUBAN AFFAIR
   Nelson DeMille
   A Miami lawyer solicits an Army veteran to go on a secret mission to recover $60 million stashed away in Cuba.
8. MERRY AND BRIGHT
   Debbie Macomber
   A temp, who works for a strict and stressed boss is given a social life when family members create an online dating profile for her.
9. HAUNTED
   James Patterson and James O. Born
   A detective from New York takes his family on a vacation in Maine and is enlisted by local cops to help solve a crime in the woods.
10. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE
    Celeste Ng
    An artist with a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.

NonFiction

1. KILLING ENGLAND
   Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
   Major events and battles during the Revolutionary War are told from the perspectives of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others.
2. WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER
   Ta-Nehisi Coates
   A series of essays that cover each year of the Obama administration, the writer's own journey and the echoes of American history in modern times.
3. WHAT HAPPENED
   Hillary Rodham Clinton
   The first woman nominated for president by a major political party details her campaign, mistakes she made, outside forces that affected the outcome and how she recovered in its aftermath.
4. ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY
   Neil deGrasse Tyson
   A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe and the forces and laws that govern it.
5. THE FOUR
   Jcott Galloway
   A study of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, with suggestions on applying these companies' strategies to your own business or career.
6. UNBELIEVABLE
   Katy Tur
   The NBC News correspondent describes her work covering the 2016 campaign of the Republican nominee for president and his behavior toward her.
7. MARTIN LUTHER
   Eric Metaxas
   A biography of the monk whose writings sparked the Protestant Reformation.
8. THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP
   Bandy X. Lee
   27 psychiatrists and mental health experts give their assessments of the president.
9. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
   Caitlin Doughty
   An American undertaker chronicles the diversity of death practices around the globe, the better to argue for changes at home.
10. RECOVERY
    Russell Brand
    The actor and comedian describes his various addictions and how he was able to move away from them.

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Last updated: October 16, 2017