FICTION
1. 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.
2. Masked Prey, by John Sandford. (Putnam) The 30th book in the "Prey" series. Washington politicians ask Lucas Davenport to look into someone who is targeting their children.
3. American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins. (Flatiron) A bookseller flees Mexico for the United States with her son while pursued by the head of a drug cartel.
4. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
5. The Boy From the Woods, by Harlan Coben. (Grand Central) When a girl goes missing, a private investigator's feral childhood becomes an asset in the search.
6. The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel. (Knopf) Years after an international Ponzi scheme falls apart, one of its victims investigates the disappearance of a woman from a container ship.
7. In Five Years, by Rebecca Serle. (Atria) A Manhattan lawyer finds herself confronting a vision she had when elements of it come to life on schedule.
8. Redhead by the Side of the Road, by Anne Tyler. (Knopf) Micah Mortimer's orderly existence is thrown off kilter when his partner faces eviction and a teenager claims to be his son.