Hardcover Fiction
February 19, 2017
Right Behind You The former F.B.I. profiler Pierce Quincy and his partner, Rainie Conner, foster a girl whose older brother murdered their drunken father. Now, eight years later, he has killed again.
Never Never Harriet Blue, a Sydney sex crimes detective, is sent to the outback (the never never) to investigate the disappearance of a mine worker. The first in a new series.
The Girl Before A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its (young, female) inhabitants in this psychological thriller.
The Underground Railroad A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
The Whistler A whistleblower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the Mob and Indian casinos.
Two by Two A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love.
Small Great Things A medical crisis entangles a black nurse, a white supremacist father and a white lawyer.
The Prisoner In the 11th John Wells novel, the former C.I.A. agent goes undercover as a jihadi in order to investigate a suspected mole.
The Mistress The beautiful mistress of a Russian oligarch yearns for freedom.
A Gentleman in Moscow A Russian count undergoes 30 years of house arrest.
The Chemist A specialist in chemically controlled torture, on the run from her former employers, takes on one last job.
Commonwealth Five decades in the lives of two families remade by divorce.
4 3 2 1 Four versions of the formative years of a Jewish boy born in Newark in 1947.
Rather Be the Devil The Edinburgh detective comes out of retirement to investigate a 1978 cold case, a murder in a luxury hotel.
Behind Her Eyes A psychological thriller, set in London, about a triangle: a woman, her boss and his wife, who becomes her friend.
Hardcover Nonfiction
February 19, 2017
Hillbilly Elegy A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.
Killing the Rising Sun The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II.
Three Days in January Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.
The Book of Joy Two spiritual leaders discuss how to find joy in the face of suffering.
Tears We Cannot Stop A frank and searing discussion of race.
Hidden Figures The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie.
Between the World and Me A meditation on race in America.
The Blood of Emmett Till An account of the shocking 1955 lynching presents new evidence.
Born a Crime A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”
The Princess Diarist Recollections of life on the set of the first Star Wars movie by the actress and writer, who died in December.