FICTION
1. While Justice Sleeps, by Stacey Abrams. (Doubleday) When Justice Wynn slips into a coma, his law clerk, Avery Keene, must unravel the clues of a controversial case.
2. Sooley, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) Samuel Sooleymon receives a basketball scholarship to North Carolina Central and determines to bring his family over from a civil war-ravaged South Sudan.
3. 21st Birthday, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown) The 21st book in the "Women's Murder Club" series. New evidence changes the investigation of a missing mother.
4. The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman. (Viking) The poem read on President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day, by the youngest poet to write and perform an inaugural poem.
5. That Summer, by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria) Daisy Shoemaker receives e-mails intended for a woman leading a more glamorous life and finds there was more to this accident.
6. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir. (Ballantine) Ryland Grace awakes from a long sleep alone and far from home, and the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders.
7. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig. (Viking) Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
8. The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave. (Simon & Schuster) Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.