FICTION
1. A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult. (Ballantine) The lives of patients, doctors and activists intersect when a gunman holds them hostage in a woman's health center in Mississippi.
2. Vince Flynn: Red War, by Kyle Mills. (Emily Bestler/Atria) When the Russian prime minister plots to invade the Baltics, only Mitch Rapp can stop him.
3. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green. (Dutton) After posting a video that goes viral, April May must deal with the pressures of becoming an internet sensation.
4. Alaskan Holiday, by Debbie Macomber. (Ballantine) A Seattleite cook stuck in remote Ponder, Alaska, grapples with her feelings for the local swordsmith.
5. Blood Communion, by Anne Rice. (Knopf) The latest in the Vampire Chronicles series details Prince Lestat's reign over the vampire world. (x)
6. Juror #3, by James Patterson and Nancy Allen. (Little, Brown) Ruby Bozarth defends a college football star charged in a felony case complicated by a second murder.
7. Lethal White, by Robert Galbraith. (Mulholland/Little, Brown) The fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series. Detectives Strike and Ellacott investigate a crime a young man may have witnessed as a child; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.
8. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.