FICTION
1. The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn. (Morrow) A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.
2. The Wife Between Us, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. (St. Martin's) The connections linking a hedge fund manager, his ex-wife and his fiancée are explored from several points of view.
3. Origin, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
4. 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.
5. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland. (x)
6. Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward. (Scribner) A 13-year-old boy comes of age in Mississippi while his black mother takes him and his toddler sister to pick up their white father, who is getting released from the state penitentiary.
7. The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin. (Putnam) Four adolescents learn the dates of their deaths from a psychic and their lives go on different courses.
8. Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate. (Ballantine) A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.