Fiction

PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) When a former lover’s dead body is found in his bed, Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.

DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY, by P. D. James. (Knopf, $25.95.) Six years after Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy marry, their comfortable life is shaken by a murder, as James recreates the world of “Pride and Prejudice” with a mysterious twist.

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

11/22/63, by Stephen King. (Scribner, $35.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald, but first he must determine if Oswald is guilty.

BELIEVING THE LIE, by Elizabeth George. (Dutton, $28.95.) Inspector Thomas Lynley’s investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan.

RAYLAN, by Elmore Leonard. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A United States marshal sent to Harlan County, Ky., confronts organ trafficking, strip mining and bank robberies.

THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $28.95.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them.

LOCKED ON, by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. (Putnam, $28.95.) Jack Ryan Jr. must stop an emerging threat from a Pakistani general.

A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. (Bantam, $35.) After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

THE PARIS WIFE, by Paula McLain. (Ballantine, $25.) Ernest Hemingway's first wife narrates this novel set in Paris.

THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $25.99.) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.

THE ROPE, by Nevada Barr. (Minotaur, $25.99.) Barr returns to 1995 to explore why the National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon decided to go into law enforcement.

STAR WARS: DARTH PLAGUEIS, by James Luceno. (LucasBooks, $27.) The Sith legend of Darth Plagueis, the most powerful Dark Lord of the Sith, who could keep the ones he cared about from dying; a “Star Wars” novel.

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING, by Julian Barnes. (Knopf, $23.95.) In this Man Booker Prize-winning novel, an unexpected bequest causes a man in his 60s to question his understanding of the past.

LOVE IN A NUTSHELL, by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly. (St. Martin’s, $27.99.) A former magazine editor attempts to turn her parents’ summer house into a bed-and-breakfast.

77 SHADOW STREET, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $28.) A 19th-century tycoon’s mansion has been turned into luxury apartments, but it remains in the grip of evil forces.

EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (Bantam, $28.) After a disastrous vacation in Hawaii, Stephanie Plum becomes the target of an international killer.

THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) A gifted but vulnerable ballplayer faces a crisis.

RED MIST, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $27.95.) The chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, director of a new forensic center in Cambridge, Mass., investigates a string of killings she believes are linked to the murder of her former deputy; the 19th Scarpetta book.

THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON, by Adam Johnson (Random House)

STATE OF WONDER, by Ann Patchett (Harper/HarperCollins)

1Q84, by Haruki Murakami. (Knopf, $30.5.) In 1980s Tokyo, a woman who punishes perpetrators of domestic violence has ties to an aspiring novelist who takes on an unusual ghostwriting project.

  Non-Fiction

AMERITOPIA, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $26.99.) A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the utopian movement and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.

AMERICAN SNIPER, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A member of the Navy Seals who has the most career sniper kills in United States military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.

STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $35.) A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.

KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt, $28.) The commentator looks at the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

THROUGH MY EYES, by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. (HarperCollins, $26.99.) The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course.

 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.

 ELIZABETH THE QUEEN, by Sally Bedell Smith. (Random House, $30.) The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II as she approaches her Diamond Jubilee.

CATHERINE THE GREAT, by Robert K. Massie. (Random House, $35.) The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became Empress of All the Russias.

IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. (Crown, $26.) This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazi Party centers on the experiences of William E. Dodd, who became the U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his daughter, Martha.

GREEDY BASTARDS, by Dylan Ratigan. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) The host of MSNBC’s “Dylan Ratigan Show” proposes solutions to political and economic problems.

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson, $21.99.) A boy’s encounter with Jesus and the angels.

BOOMERANG, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $25.95.) A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008, and at how it happened.

JACK KENNEDY, by Chris Matthews. (Simon & Schuster, $27.5.) An admiring portrait.

BEING GEORGE WASHINGTON, by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts, $26.) How Washington turned himself into the indispensable (if imperfect) man.

THAT USED TO BE US, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

SERIOUSLY ... I'M KIDDING, by Ellen DeGeneres. (Grand Central, $26.99.) A collection of humor pieces from the stand-up comedian and talk-show host.

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