2/15/2026

fiction
1
vigil
George Saunders
In the waning hours of an oil company chief executive’s life, worldly and otherworldly visitors put his time on Earth in perspective.
2
the correspondent
Virginia Evans
Letters from someone she used to know push Sybil Van Antwerp toward revisiting her past and finding a way to forgive.
3
half his age
Jennette McCurdy
A 17-year-old named Waldo has an inexplicable attraction to her creative writing teacher.
4
pendergast: the beginning
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Agent Pendergast’s ghastly first case involves a suspension and ritualistic killings.
5
burn down master's house
Clay Cane
Acts of resistance are made by enslaved persons in the American South.
6
the widow
John Grisham
When Simon Latch, a lawyer in rural Virginia, is accused of murder, he goes in search of the real killer.
7
alchemised
SenLinYu
After the war, an imprisoned alchemist is sent to a necromancer to recover her lost memories.
8
my husband's wife
Alice Feeney
In an old house in a seaside town, things may not be what they appear to be.
9
the secret of secrets
Dan Brown
As he searches for the missing noetic scientist he has been seeing, Robert Langdon discovers something regarding a secret project.
10
her soul for revenge
Harley Laroux
The second book in the Souls trilogy. Juniper gives her soul to Zane so he will exact revenge on a cult but now he wants her heart too.
11
brimstone
Callie Hart
The second book in the Fae & Alchemy series. To save those close to them, Saeris and Fisher face a new set of dangers.
12
the things we leave unfinished
Rebecca Yarros
After a divorce, Georgia Stanton returns to Colorado and tries to protect her great-grandmother’s incomplete manuscript.
13
the first time i saw him
Laura Dave
Hannah’s husband turns up five years after he disappeared, which forces her to go on the run with her daughter.
14
anatomy of an alibi
Ashley Elston
Two women enact a plan to uncover truths a man may have been hiding, but things go awry when he is found murdered.
15
carl's doomsday scenario
Matt Dinniman
The second book in the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series. Carl and Donut confront an ancient spell and heightened dangers.
nonfiction
1
the invisible coup
Peter Schweizer
The author of “Blood Money” puts forward his argument that mass migration is a political weapon.
2
the anxious generation
Jonathan Haidt
A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children.
3
where we keep the light
Josh Shapiro with Emily Jane Fox
The governor of Pennsylvania chronicles events that shaped his life and his political career.
4
strangers
Belle Burden
Burden retraces her marriage of 20 years in search of clues to help shape her understanding about its demise and to find a way forward.
5
how to test negative for stupid
John Kennedy
The Republican senator from Louisiana shares stories about politics in Washington, D.C., and in his home state.
6
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
The New York Times journalist and CNBC host looks at the fight between Washington and Wall Street that fueled a historic crash of the stock market.
7
the guy you loved to hate
Spencer Pratt
The reality TV star recounts setbacks he faced and how his life changed after the Palisades wildfires in 2025.
8
nobody's girl
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
The late activist and advocate for sex-trafficking survivors describes her time with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
9
one day, everyone will have always been against this
Omar El Akkad
In his nonfiction debut, El Akkad looks at how the West responds to mass suffering.
10
black af history
Michael Harriot
A columnist at TheGrio.com articulates moments in American history that center the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.
11
outlive
Peter Attia with Bill Gifford
A look at recent scientific research on aging and longevity.
12
everything is tuberculosis
John Green
The author of “The Anthropocene Reviewed” chronicles the fight against the deadly infectious disease tuberculosis.
13
never mind the happy
Marc Shaiman
The award-winning composer and co-lyricist shares moments from his career over the last five decades.
14
football
Chuck Klosterman
The author of “The Nineties” considers the ways in which the sport has impacted American life.
15
the gales of november
John U. Bacon
An account of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, 50 years ago.