FICTION
1. Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman. (Norton) A retelling of Norse folklore.
2. Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders. (Random House) Visiting the grave of his recently deceased young son in 1862, Lincoln encounters a cemetery full of ghosts.
3. Banana Cream Pie Murder, by Joanne Fluke. (Kensington) Hannah Swensen, the bakery owner and amateur sleuth of Lake Eden, Minn., returns from her honeymoon to confront an actress' mysterious death.
4. The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. (Doubleday) A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels.
5. Echoes in Death, by J.D. Robb. (St. Martin's) Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD investigates a fatal home invasion. By Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.
6. Heartbreak Hotel, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine) Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lt. Milo Sturgis investigate a mysterious death.
7. Humans, Bow Down, by James Patterson and Emily Raymond with Jill Dembowski. (Little, Brown) After the Great War, a woman is determined to save humanity before the victorious robots wipe it out.
8. A Piece of the World, by Christina Baker Kline. (Morrow/HarperCollins) Imagining the life of the central figure of Andrew Wyeth's iconic painting "Christina's World."