The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

Hadley Richardson comes into her own as Ernest Hemingway’s long-suffering first wife in this novel, set in Paris.

After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”

A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

In the Amazon basin, a medical researcher searches for her former mentor, a despotic scientist who is developing a miracle fertility drug.

The entire world of the 5-year-old boy who narrates this novel is the 11-by-11-foot room in which his mother is being held prisoner.

Two young rivals at a magical circus become collaborators as they fall in love.

A criminal wants to save an innocent man on death row, but he must convince the authorities he’s telling the truth.

As Christmas nears, a terminally ill man is preparing his family for his death when another tragedy strikes.

Familiar Clancy characters appear as an intelligence group tracks a vicious terrorist called the Emir.

The latest volume in a series that began with “The Clan of the Cave Bear,” set during the ice age.

The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse seeks the culprit in a firebombing.

Picoult takes on the issue of gay rights in this novel about a music therapist who desperately wants a child.

The defense lawyer Mickey Haller represents a woman facing home foreclosure who is accused of killing a banker.

Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club race to find a missing baby.

The lawyer for an alleged serial killer is murdered, and two former Secret Service agents are on the case.

Maxwell Moore pursues the terrorists who killed his C.I.A. colleagues in a bomb attack in Pakistan.

A killer is after the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who faces further complications as she tries to choose a boyfriend.

Nina Bloom, who years ago changed her identity to save her life, is forced to confront the past and the killer she thought she had escaped.

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.

Three Brown graduates in the early 1980s wrestle with love, religion and coming of age.

Someone is murdering entire families — recreating in detail a crime spree that took place two decades earlier — and a homicide detective is certain that his own family will be targets.

A woman haunted by the disappearance of her young son discovers that someone has stolen her identity.

Three generations of a family’s women take guilt, secrets and old wounds on a beach retreat.

For Jack Reacher, an elite military police officer, it all started in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up.

In this Man Booker Prize-winning novel, an unexpected bequest causes a man in his 60s to question his understanding of the past.

The New York detective Michael Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague to solve a rash of horrifying crimes that are throwing the city into chaos.

The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age, and Perrin Aybara is hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership; Book 13 of the Wheel of Time fantasy series.

The recovery of a lost ancient manuscript in a library at Oxford sets a fantastical underworld stirring.

Hays Baker, a top operative for the Agency of Change and a national hero, suddenly finds himself a hunted fugitive who must fight to save humans from extinction.