The Middleman

by Olen Steinhauer

A sweeping espionage thriller by the best-selling author, covering all sides of a domestic terrorist group, from their converts to the FBI agents investigating them.
Minotaur Books

If You Leave Me

by Crystal Hana Kim

A literary saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they’re forced to make in the years surrounding a civil war that still haunts us today.
William Morrow

French Exit

by Patrick deWitt

The celebrated The Sisters Brothers author brings us another darkly comic novel, this time about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York in the wake of scandal.
Ecco

The Third Hotel

by Laura van den Berg

A woman travels to Cuba and discovers her husband there wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before — and he’s supposed to be dead.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Lake Success

by Gary Shteyngart

A deluded hedge-fund manager leaves billions behind in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his college sweetheart. Spoiler alert: There’s a good chance he won’t find it.
Random House

Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon

by Charles Casillo

A warts-and-all portrait of the complex woman who rose out of an abusive childhood, dealt with bipolar disorder, and turned herself into a bewitching, maddening, brilliant yet flawed star.
St. Martin’s Press

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz

The Road to Perdition author teams with an acclaimed young historian in a dual portrait of the gangster and the legendary Prohibition agent.
William Morrow

The Great American Read: The Book of Books

This book profiles America’s 100 favorite novels, providing a snapshot of each one’s social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts.
Black Dog & Leventhal

Arthur Ashe: A Life

by Raymond Arsenault

The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of “the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis,” who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.
Simon & Schuster

ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction

by Joshua Cohen

One of Granta magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age.
Random House

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The Outsider

When a boy is found murdered in the town park, all signs point to Terry Maitland, a pillar of the community. King takes us on a suspenseful, shocking investigation of what really happened.
Scribner

The Perfect Couple

by Elin Hilderbrand

Hilderbrand’s Nantucket novels may be the perfect summer reads. In her latest, she sets out a lavish wedding with one hitch: The bride-to-be has been found dead in Nantucket Harbor.
Little, Brown, and Co.

Warlight

by Michael Ondaatje

A moving novel set in London during the decade after WWII, featuring a 14-year-old boy and his older sister, by the author of The English Patient.
Knopf

Love and Ruin

by Paula McLain

The author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway, turning her focus on his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn.
Ballantine Books

Florida

by Lauren Groff

From the celebrated author of Fates and Furies and The Monsters of Templeton, a collection of perceptive and deeply moving short stories, all set in Florida.
Riverhead Books

How to Change Your Mind

by Michael Pollan

The Omnivore’s Dilemma’s author set out to research psychedelic drugs and consciousness, he hadn’t planned to write such a personal book, an elegant blend of science, memoir, history, and medicine.
Penguin

Barracoon

by Zora Neale Hurston

In 1927 and again in 1931, Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, to interview Cudjo Lewis, one of the last known survivors of the slave trade. This is his story.
Amistad

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

by Dawn Raffel

A hundred years ago, hospitals couldn’t save premature babies. But on boardwalks and at World’s Fairs, a strange carnival showman saved the lives of thousands of infants. A compelling historic mystery uncovered.
Blue Rider Press

Into the Raging Sea

by Rachel Slade

On the first of October 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole. This maritime classic explores the events leading up to that tragedy.
Ecco

Robin

by Dave Itzkoff

The New York Times culture reporter has written the definitive biography of Robin Williams, one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers
Henry Holt

Into the Water

by Paula Hawkins

The author of the mega-hit The Girl on the Train is back with more psychological suspense in this new novel about a town and a river that hold forgotten secrets — plus a few discarded bodies.
Riverhead Books

Camino Island

by John Grisham

Taking time off from publishing legal thrillers, Grisham has written a cat-and-mouse beachside caper about stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts. This is a great read by a master of his craft.
Doubleday

Since We Fell

by Dennis Lehane

The Shutter Island author’s latest is the story of a life and a marriage unraveling as a woman is drawn into a conspiracy that she didn’t go looking for and might not have the strength to escape.
Ecco

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

by Arundhati Roy

From the Booker Award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a tale of intertwined characters in search of meaning, love, and safety against the backdrop of the Indian subcontinent.
Knopf

The Identicals

by Elin Hilderbrand

Old grudges bubble to the surface as identical twins struggle to confront a family crisis. The twins are so alike and yet so different, and they must decide which distinction matters more.
Little, Brown and Co.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Even if you’ve never hoped you could understand the nature of space and time, Neil deGrasse Tyson answers the questions of the cosmos in a witty and easily digestible style that keeps you turning pages.
W.W. Norton

How to Be a Stoic

by Massimo Pigliucci

Stoicism is hot right now, and in this book, Pigliucci argues that the ancient philosophy that has long been associated with suffering is really about learning how to differentiate what you can, and can’t, control in your life.
Basic Books

by Mary V. Dearborn

This is the first biography of Hemingway in 15 years — and the first written by a woman. It draws on new material to give the richest and most nuanced portrait yet of one of America’s greatest writers.
Knopf

Theft by Finding

by David Sedaris

Drawn from decades of diary entries, Sedaris’ latest collection reveals a unique view of the world from a man who turned a grim start as a drug-abusing dropout into a funny, generous, and uncomfortable career as one of our greatest modern observers.
Little, Brown and Co.

Upstream

by Langdon Cook

Through an exploration of the natural history of his subjects, Cook sets readers at the essential intersection of man, food, and nature in a portrait of the all-important salmon and the places where and people to whom salmon matter most.
Ballantine Books

A Piece of the World

by Christina Baker Kline

The best-selling author of The Orphan Train returns with a novel based on Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious painting Christina’s World.
William Morrow

Celine

by Peter Heller

A Brooklyn woman who specializes in finding lost family members heads to Yellowstone to investigate a missing photographer.
Knopf

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

by Lisa See

The best-selling author explores the lives of a mother from a remote Chinese village and her daughter, who has been adopted by American parents.
Scribner

Beartown

by Fredrik Backman

The new novel from the Swedish author of the delightful A Man Called Ove revolves around a small town that needs to win a junior ice hockey championship.
Atria

Mississippi Blood

by Greg Iles

A modern-day Southern epic, this final installment in the Natchez Burning trilogy delivers with a story of love and honor, hatred and revenge.
William Morrow

Homo Deus

by Yuval Noah Harari

Two years ago, Harari’s book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind took the nonfiction world by storm. Homo Deus expands on the final chapters of that first book, exploring what it will mean to be human in the times to come.
Harper

Dodge City

by Tom Clavin

Get a closer look at one of the most turbulent towns in the West, featuring a who’s who of famous characters: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, and many more.
St. Martin’s Press

South and West

by Joan Didion

This book from the master of the contemporary memoir is different from her normal fare. It consists of her research notebooks from trips to the U.S. South and West, offering an illuminating glimpse into her writerly mind.
Knopf

The Rules Do Not Apply

by Ariel Levy

New Yorker writer Levy was pregnant, married, and financially secure when she left for Mongolia in 2012. A month later, none of that was true. How does a person deal with that kind of loss? How can she pick up the pieces?
Random House

Killers of the Flower Moon

by David Grann

The author of The Lost City of Z has written a supreme example of narrative nonfiction, weaving a tale of 1920s oilmen, Texas Rangers, Native Americans, a nascent FBI, murder, intrigue, and conspiracy.
Doubleday