| fiction |
| 1 |
holly |
Stephen King |
The private detective Holly Gibney investigates whether a married pair of octogenarian academics had anything to do with Bonnie Dahl’s disappearance. |
| 2 |
fourth wing |
Rebecca Yarros |
Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders. |
| 3 |
vince flynn: code red |
Kyle Mills |
The 22nd book in the Mitch Rapp series. Rapp and his team try to foil a plot by Russia without being discovered. |
| 4 |
tom lake |
Ann Patchett |
Three daughters, who return to their family orchard in the spring of 2020, learn about their mother’s relationship with a famous actor. |
| 5 |
lessons in chemistry |
Bonnie Garmus |
A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show. |
| 6 |
fall of ruin and wrath |
Jennifer L. Armentrout |
In a world where only nine cities were spared divine destruction, Calista must decide whether to follow her intuition to safety or court calamity by pursuing a love. |
| 7 |
demon copperhead |
Barbara Kingsolver |
Winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A reimagining of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. |
| 8 |
the vaster wilds |
Lauren Groff |
A servant girl, who escapes with almost nothing from a colonial settlement, finds the beliefs she learned are tested. |
| 9 |
the covenant of water |
Abraham Verghese |
Three generations of a family living on South India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning. |
| 10 |
the heaven & earth grocery store |
James McBride |
Secrets held by the residents of a dilapidated neighborhood come to life when a skeleton is found at the bottom of a well. |
| 11 |
the fraud |
Zadie Smith |
In 1873, a Scottish housekeeper to a once-famous novelist is captivated by a trial in which a lower-class butcher from Australia claims to be the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title. |
| 12 |
payback in death |
J.D. Robb |
The 57th book of the In Death series. Eve Dallas looks into the death of an internal affairs captain. |
| 13 |
nineteen steps |
Millie Bob Brown with Kathleen McGurl |
In 1942 London, 18-year-old Nellie Morris has a chance encounter with an American airman. |
| 14 |
mother-daughter murder night |
Nina Simon |
When her granddaughter finds a dead body while kayaking, a convalescing Los Angeles businesswoman tries to uncover the truth. |
| 15 |
the river we remember |
William Kent Krueger |
Suspicions and accusations complicate a sheriff’s investigation of a wealthy landowner’s murder in a small Minnesota town in 1958. |
| nonfiction |
| 1 |
elon musk |
Walter Isaacson |
The author of “The Code Breaker” traces Musk’s life and summarizes his work on electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence. |
| 2 |
counting the cost |
Jill Duggar with Derick Dillard and Craig Borlase |
A behind-the-scenes account of the reality TV series “19 Kids and Counting” and a portrayal of life inside the Duggar family. |
| 3 |
outlive |
Peter Attia with Bill Gifford |
A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity. |
| 4 |
to infinity and beyond |
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker |
Science and pop culture intertwine in this exploration of the cosmos, which includes parallel worlds and time travel. |
| 5 |
scattershot |
Bernie Taupin |
A memoir by the lyricist best known for his collaborations with Elton John. |
| 6 |
punished for dreaming |
Bettina L. Love |
A professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, looks at the impact of some public-school policies on Black children over the last four decades. |
| 7 |
the wager |
David Grann |
The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events. |
| 8 |
doppelganger |
Naomi Klein |
The author of “On Fire” and “No Is Not Enough” explores the mirror-worlds of online paranoia and conspiracy theories in a divided culture. |
| 9 |
i'm glad my mom died |
Jennette McCurdy |
The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother. |
| 10 |
tyranny of the minority |
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt |
The authors of “How Democracies Die” examine an authoritarian backlash happening in America. |
| 11 |
the coming wave |
Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar |
A co-founder of the A.I. company DeepMind posits how new technology might affect the global order and our daily lives. |
| 12 |
why we love baseball |
Joe Posnanski |
The author of “The Baseball 100” brings to life 50 moments in baseball’s history. |
| 13 |
glossy |
Marisa Meltzer |
A tell-all about the beauty startup Glossier and its founder, Emily Weiss. |
| 14 |
necessary trouble |
Drew Gilpin Faust |
The former Harvard president and author of “This Republic of Suffering” describes the misogyny and racism that compelled her to become a historian. |
| 15 |
the last politician |
Franklin Foer |
A staff writer at The Atlantic portrays the first two years of the Biden presidency, with a focus on Biden’s use of deal-making and compromise. |
