FICTION
1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) A woman who survived alone in a marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Riverhead) An 89-year-old Vivian Morris looks back at the direction her life took when she entered the 1940s New York theater scene.
3. Unsolved, by James Patterson and David Ellis. (Little, Brown) A string of seemingly accidental and unrelated deaths confounds FBI agent Emmy Dockery.
4. Fall, by Neal Stephenson. (Morrow) A dead multibillionaire's brain is scanned and turned back on at a time when humans live as digital souls.
5. Queen Bee, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow) A beekeeper's quiet life is unsettled by her demanding mother, outgoing sister and neighboring widower.
6. On Earth We Were Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong. (Penguin Press) Little Dog writes a letter to a mother who cannot read, revealing a family history.
7. The Guest Book, by Sarah Blake. (Flatiron) Evie Milton uncovers a story going back a couple of generations that may shatter a family myth.
8. Redemption, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) The fifth book in the "Memory Man" series. The first man Amos Decker put behind bars asks to have his name cleared.