FICTION
1. BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?
2. THE HEIST, by Daniel Silva. (Harper) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.
3. TOM CLANCY: SUPPORT AND DEFEND, by Mark Greaney. (Putnam) A Dominic Caruso novel, written in the tradition of Tom Clancy, who died in October 2013.
4. THE BOOK OF LIFE, by Deborah Harkness. (Viking) In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, the Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present.
5. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown) A painting becomes a boy's prize, guilt and burden.
6. FAST TRACK, by Julie Garwood. (Dutton) A woman faces threats as she searches for the truth about her long-dead mother, aided by her best friend's attractive older brother.
7. A PERFECT LIFE, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) A successful TV anchor faces a young rival at work just as the long-kept secrets of her private life are exposed.