FICTION
1. MEMORY MAN, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) A police detective who left the force when his family was murdered teams up with his former partner to solve the case, relying on the extraordinary memory he developed as a result of a collision in his earlier football career.
2. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, by Paula Hawkins. (Riverhead) A psychological thriller set in the environs of London.
3. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner) The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II; the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.
4. THE BONE TREE, by Greg Iles. (Morrow/HarperCollins) In the second book of a trilogy, following "Natchez Burning," prosecutor Penn Cage's attempt to find his father, a doctor who has gone into hiding following the murder of his African-American nurse, brings him up against the KKK.
5. GOD HELP THE CHILD, by Toni Morrison. (Knopf) Her mother's rejection shapes the life of a dark-skinned woman who becomes successful in business but personally unhappy.
6. THE LIAR, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam) Returning to her Smoky Mountain hometown, a woman discovers that her husband was a fraud who implicated her in his deceptions.
7. EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES, by Lisa Scottoline. (St. Martin's) A psychiatrist becomes the target of a sociopath.