PICK LISTS

New York Times Bestsellers

Fiction

1. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
2. Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
3. Guilty Wives by James Patterson
4. Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward
5. Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
6. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
7. Loving by Karen Kingsbury
8. Stay Close by Harlan Coben
9.  The Girl Who Kicked… by Stieg Larsson
10. Defending Jacob by William Landay

Non-Fiction

  1. The Big Miss by Hank Haney
  2. Drift by Rachel Maddow
  3. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
  4. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
  5. Imagine by Jonah Lehrer
  6. Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
  7. Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
  8. American Sniper by Chris Kyle
  9. The Vow by Kim Carpenter
  10. Bossypants by Tina Fey

indieBound

The Indie NEXT List

  1. The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau
  2. Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
  3. The Good Father by Noah Hawley
  4. The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler
  5. The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen
  6. The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead
  7. Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
  8. Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
  9. Grace by T. Greenwood
  10. Elegy for Eddie by Jacquline Winspear

More at NYTimes and IndieBound

STAFF PICKS

Louise Recommends Cost

 

Louise recommends Cost by Roxana Robinson. This novel was named the Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, who describes it as “richly honest and humane – summer reading of uncommon stature.”

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Molly Recommends Watership Down

 

Molly recommends worldwide bestseller Watership Down by award-winning author Richard Adams.  The Chicago Tribune describes it as “spellbinding” and “marvelous.”

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PERSONALIZED PICKS

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