FictionThe List, by Martin Fletcher (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne)
A post-Holocaust novel that should be required reading wherever lessons about the plight of modern-day European Jews are taught. Kirkus Reviews
The Best of Me, by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)
A new novel from the author of “The Notebook.” No doubt it will be a movie one day, too.
The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst (Knopf)
Hollinghurst writes with the relaxed elegance and unobtrusive charm of a Cary Grant. The Washington Post
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The first novel since his 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning “Middlesex,” and it possesses the literary resonance and erotic allure that made that fiction so successful. Barnes & Noble
How the Mistakes Were Made, by Tyler McMahon (St. Martin’s Griffin)
In McMahon’s debut novel, punk-rock refugee Laura Loss narrates the whirlwind rise and fall of the Mistakes, a Seattle band that emerged from the early ’90s grunge scene and briefly became rock ‘n’ roll legends. Publishers Weekly
Harbor, by John Ajvide Lindqvist (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne)
A 6-year-old girl crosses the ice with her parents to visit a lighthouse and promptly vanishes. — Library Journal
The Iliad, by Homer (Free Press)
The latest translation of a classic work from the highly regarded Stephen Mitchell
NonfictionMy Song, by Harry Belafonte (Knopf)
The long- awaited memoir from a groundbreaking entertainer.
The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout, by Jill Abramson (Times Books)
Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, is a tough-minded investigative journalist with a soft spot for cuddly pups. Publishers Weekly
