A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?

An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.

Government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.

The symbologist Robert Langdon, on the run in Florence, must decipher a series of codes created by a Dante-loving scientist.

A multigenerational family saga centers on a brother and sister born in Afghanistan; from the author of “The Kite Runner.”

A successful businesswoman and devoted wife and mother finds a letter that throws everything she’s believed into doubt.

Ana Steele learns more about Christian Grey’s troubled past; the second book in a trilogy.

A young woman, while putting down roots in a small North Carolina town, is haunted by a dark secret from her past.

An imprisoned ex-lawyer schemes to exchange this information about who murdered a judge for his freedom.

The final book in an erotic trilogy.

The lives of two couples converge unexpectedly.

A man recently released from a mental institution has two obsessions: his estranged wife and the Philadelphia Eagles. The basis of the movie; originally published in 2009.

The struggling detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.

Now grown up, Dan, the boy with psycho-intuitive powers in “The Shining,” helps another child with a spectacular gift.

The military investigator John Puller probes his aunt’s mysterious death in Florida.

While Alex Cross pursues a Washington serial killer (or killers?), someone is after him.

An allegory on the high seas, in which a teenage boy and a 450-pound tiger are thrown together in a lifeboat after a shipwreck.

A New Hampshire baker finds herself in the midst of two Holocaust stories: her grandmother’s story of survival, and the confessions of an elderly German man, an SS officer.

The government hitman Will Robie uncovers a serious threat as he attempts to take out a fellow assassin who has gone rogue.

A former criminal attorney who has been acquitted of his wife’s murder retreats to his family estate on a rocky New England cliff, where he is comforted by the house’s caretaker amid continuing danger.

An “oral history” of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization.

As he investigates the murder of a pair of newlyweds, the F.B.I. agent John O’Hara, last seen in “Honeymoon” (2005), is targeted by a serial killer.

Told in alternating voices, this is a chilling portrait of a marriage gone terribly awry.

Jack Reacher is thrown into jail on trumped-up charges and must clear his name.

A sequel, about race and inheritance, to “A Time to Kill.”

A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden.

In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering.

Brooke Stewart, a New York real estate agent who avoids relationships, embarks on an affair with Jeff Mayfield, a millionaire playboy.

Jake, a Seattle millionaire, asks his formerly estranged childhood friend Kacey to pretend to be engaged to him. But she reckoned without Jake’s brother, Travis.

A week after giving birth, Detective Lindsay Boxer returns to work to investigate some grisly murders.