FICTION
1. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
2. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.
3. Connections in Death, by J.D. Robb. (St. Martin's) Eve Dallas scours tattoo parlors and strip joints for clues to the cause of Lyle Pickering's mysterious death.
4. Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James. (Riverhead) A loner named Tracker teams up with a group of unusual characters in search of a mysterious boy.
5. Devotions, by Mary Oliver. (Penguin Press) A collection of more than 200 poems spanning 50 years of the author's career.
6. An Anonymous Girl, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. (St. Martin's) Jessica Farris' life unravels when she signs up for Dr. Shields' psychology study.
7. The Wedding Guest, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine) Milo Sturgis and Alex Delaware investigate the death of a stranger at a wedding reception.
8. The Reckoning, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A decorated World War II veteran shoots and kills a pastor inside a Mississippi church.