FICTION
1. The People vs. Alex Cross, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown) Detective Alex Cross takes on a case even though he has been suspended from the department and taken to federal court to stand trial on murder charges.
2. The Rooster Bar, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.
3. Origin, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
4. Hardcore Twenty-Four, by Janet Evanovich. (Putnam) When a homeless man is murdered, the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum searches for the killer. (x)
5. The Midnight Line, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher tracks down the owner of a pawned West Point class ring and stumbles upon a large criminal enterprise.
6. End Game, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) Jessica Reel and Will Robie fight a dangerous adversary in Colorado.
7. Artemis, by Andy Weir. (Crown) A small-time smuggler living in a lunar colony schemes to pay off an old debt by pulling off a challenging heist.
8. Oathbringer, by Brandon Sanderson. (Tor) The third volume of the Stormlight Archive. The War of Reckoning ends and the Voidbringers return.