FICTION
1. Origin, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) After reconnecting with one of his first students, who is now a billionaire futurist, symbology professor Robert Langdon must go on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
2. Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen King and Owen King. (Scribner) In a small Appalachian town, women who fall asleep don't wake up and become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one another.
3. Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan. (Scribner) Anna Kerrigan, the first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II, meets with a man who helps her understand why her father disappeared.
4. A Column of Fire, by Ken Follett. (Viking) A pair of lovers are on opposite sides of a conflict between English Catholics and Protestants while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne.
5. Don't Let Go, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton) Detective Napoleon Dumas investigates a murder and uncovers clues about personal events that happened 15 years ago.
6. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, by David Lagercrantz. (Knopf) Stieg Larsson's character Lisbeth Salander seeks to uncover the secrets of her childhood.
7. The Cuban Affair, by Nelson DeMille. (Simon & Schuster) A Miami lawyer solicits an Army veteran to go on a secret mission to recover $60 million stashed away in Cuba.
8. Merry and Bright, by Debbie Macomber. (Ballantine) A temp, who works for a strict and stressed boss, gets a social life when her family creates an online dating profile for her.