FICTION
1. If It Bleeds, by Stephen King. (Scribner) Four novellas: "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," "The Life of Chuck," "Rat" and "If It Bleeds."
2. Walk the Wire, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) The sixth book in the "Memory Man" series. Decker and Jamison investigate a murder in a North Dakota town during a fracking boom.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. The Book of Longings, by Sue Monk Kidd. (Viking) A scholarly young woman named Ana meets an 18-year-old Jesus and becomes caught up in a confluence of dangers.
7. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. (Celadon) Theo Faber looks into the mystery of a famous painter who stops speaking after shooting her husband.
8. The Giver of Stars, by Jojo Moyes. (Pamela Dorman/Viking) In Depression-era Kentucky, five women refuse to be cowed by men or convention as they deliver books.