FICTION
1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) A woman who survived alone in a marsh becomes a murder suspect.
2. One Good Deed, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) A World War II veteran on parole must find the real killer in a small town or face going back to jail.
3. The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead. (Doubleday) Two boys respond to horrors at a Jim Crow-era reform school in ways that impact them decades later.
4. The New Girl, by Daniel Silva. (Harper) Gabriel Allon, the chief of Israeli intelligence, partners with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, whose daughter is kidnapped.
5. Dark Age, by Pierce Brown. (Del Rey) The fifth book in the "Red Rising" series.
6. Summer of '69, by Elin Hilderbrand. (Little, Brown) The Levin family undergoes dramatic events with a son in Vietnam, a daughter in protests and dark secrets hiding beneath the surface.
7. Labyrinth, by Catherine Coulter. (Gallery) The 23rd book in the "FBI Thriller" series. Agents Savich and Sherlock wend their way through a maze of lies to get to the bottom of a secret.
8. Chances Are ..., by Richard Russo. (Knopf) Three men in their 60s who met in college reunite on Martha's Vineyard, where mysterious events occurred in 1971.