Fiction
1. Believing the Lie, Elizabeth George. Inspector Thomas Lynley’s investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan.
2. Private: #1 Suspect, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. When a former lover’s dead body is found in his bed, Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.
3. Gideon’s Corpse, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Gideon Crew works to avoid a threatened terrorist attack on an American city.
4. Darth Plagueis, James Luceno. The Sith legend of Darth Plagueis, the most powerful Dark Lord of the Sith, who could keep the ones he cared about from dying; a Star Wars novel.
5. Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James. Six years after Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy marry, their comfortable life is shaken by a murder, as James re-creates the world of Pride and Prejudice with a mysterious twist.
Nonfiction
1. American Sniper, Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. A member of the Navy SEALs who has the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
2. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson. A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.
3. Through My Eyes, Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course.
4. Killing Lincoln, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The anchor of The O’Reilly Factor recounts one of the most consequential episodes of U.S. history: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
5. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman. The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.
Advice, how-to, miscellaneous
1. Taking People With You, David Novak. How to make big things happen by getting people on your side.
2. Choose to Lose, Chris Powell. The TV fitness trainer teaches you how to use carbs as part of a weight-loss plan.
3. Sexperiment, Ed and Lisa Young. A pastor and his wife talk about intimacy in marriage.
4. The 17 Day Diet, Mike Moreno. Four 17-day cycles are designed to work with your metabolism so you can burn fat every day.
4. The Dash Diet Action Plan, Marla Heller. Steps to lower blood pressure and cholesterol without medication.
Paperback nonfiction
1. The Help, Kathryn Stockett. Three women — a white socialite and two black maids — work on a tell-all book about black domestic servants in 1960s Mississippi.
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson. A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress 40 years earlier; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy.
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer. A precocious boy goes on a scavenger hunt through New York’s five boroughs in search of the lock that fits a key belonging to his father, who died on Sept. 11.
4. The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht. Fable and allegory illustrate the complexities of Balkan history, as a young doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s death.
5. 10th Anniversary, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Detective Lindsay Boxer’s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when the Women’s Murder Club is called in to find a missing baby.
Kids’ paperbacks
1. War Horse, Michael Morpurgo. A half-Thoroughbred farm horse is taken from his owner for battle in 1914. (Ages 8 to 14.)
2. Switched, Amanda Hocking. In the first book in the Trylle trilogy, an emotionally damaged high school girl realizes she may not be human. (Ages 12 and older.)
3. Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher. Before she commits suicide, a girl sends recordings to 13 people. (Ages 12 and older.)
4. Matched, Ally Condie. In this dystopian romance, a girl rebels. (Ages 12 and older.)
5. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak. A girl saves books from Nazi burning. (Ages 14 and older.)
— New York Times
