Fiction
The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
In The Night Circus author’s new novel, a student in Vermont uncovers a book filled with tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, nameless acolytes, and astonishingly, a story from his own childhood.
(Doubleday)
Blue Moon
by Lee Child
Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple under threat from rival gangs, delivering the justice that comes along only once in a blue moon. Early readers are saying this is one of Child’s best.
(Delacorte)
The Confession Club
by Elizabeth Berg
In this heartwarming, inspiring novel, a monthly dinner party in Mason, Missouri — sparked by a surprising revelation — is renamed the Confession Club, where friends are free to share their secrets.
(Random House)
The Innocents
by Michael Crummey
Orphaned siblings are left to live in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coast. With little knowledge of the world, they must survive on their wits and any lessons they can recall from their parents.
(Doubleday)
The Revisioners
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
This National Book Award-nominated author’s newest novel explores race, legacy, trust, and hope in the South in chapters that alternate between the 1920s and the present.
(Counterpoint)
Nonfiction
The Man Who Solved the Market
by Gregory Zuckerman
The true story of Jim Simons, a former code breaker who mastered the stock market, averaging annual returns of 66 percent and building his personal worth to $23 billion.
(Portfolio)
The Winter Army
by Maurice Isserman
The epic story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, who broke Germany’s last line of defense in Italy’s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps.
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Great Pretender
by Susannah Calahan
The Brain on Fire author investigates a 50-year-old mystery behind a dramatic Stanford experiment that changed the way we view mental health.
(Grand Central Publishing)
Notre-Dame
by Ken Follett
The bestselling author reflects on the great cathedral — its history, its influence, and the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened to destroy it.
(Viking)
That Wild Country
by Mark Kenyon
Part travelogue, part history, That Wild Country takes readers on an intimate tour of our wild public places, examining how they came to be and what the future might hold for them.
(Little A)
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