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A

  • Acosta, Jim
    • Enemy of the People, The
  • Ahnhem, Stefan
    • Victim Without a Face (Fabian Risk #1)
  • Ambrose, Lauren
    • Maid, The
  • Atkinson, Kate
    • Big Sky (Jackson Brodie #5)

B

  • Bala, Sharon
    • Boat People, The
  • Baldacci, David
    • Long Shadows (Amos Decker, #7)
    • Fallen, The (Amos Decker #4)
  • Balko, Radley
    • Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, The
  • Ballerini, Edoardo
    • Genome (The Extinction Files #2)
  • Bannalec, Jean-Luc
    • Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1)
    • Missing Corpse, The (Brittany Mystery #4)
  • Barclay, Linwood
    • Broken Promise (Promise Falls #1)
  • Bates, Quentin
    • Frozen Assets (Officer Gunnhilder #1)
  • Belkin, Lisa
    • Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
  • Billman, Jon
    • Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands, The
  • Black, Lisa
    • Takeover (Theresa MacLean, #1)
  • Bloom, Amy
    • White Houses
  • Blum, Ben
    • Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
  • Bohjalian, Chris
    • Flight Attendant, The
    • Red Lotus, The
  • Boot, Max
    • Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, The
  • Bowden, Mark
    • Last Stone, The
  • Box, C.J.
    • Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, #22)
    • Bitterroots , The (Cassie Dewell, #4)
    • Vicious Circle (Joe Pickett #17)
  • Brooks, Rosa
    • How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
  • Brown, Taylor
    • Gods of Howl Mountain
  • Burke, Alafair
    • Better Sister, The
    • Wife, The

C

  • Caro, Robert A.
    • Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
  • Carreyrou, John
    • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
  • Carrington, Tucker
    • Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, The
  • Cep, Casey
    • Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  • Chandler, David
    • Vicious Circle (Joe Pickett #17)
  • Chua, Amy
    • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
  • Cleeves, Ann
    • Darkest Evening, The (Vera Stanhope #9)
  • Coben, Harlan
    • I Will Find You
  • Cohan, William D.
    • Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short
  • Connelly, Michael
    • Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard #2, Harry Bosch #21, Harry Bosch Universe #31)
    • Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy #3, Harry Bosch Universe #33)
    • Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #22, Harry Bosch Universe #29)
  • Cook, Thomas H.
    • Best American Crime Reporting 2008, The
  • Cullen, Dave
    • Parkland: Birth of a Movement
  • Cummings, Jeff
    • One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

D

  • Desmond, Matthew
    • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  • Dial, Roman
    • Adventurer's Son: A Memoir, The
  • Dobbs, Michael
    • Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between, The
  • Dugoni, Robert
    • Trapped Girl, The (Tracy Crosswhite # 4)

E

  • Early, Hank
    • Heaven's Crooked Finger (Earl Marcus #1)
  • Eisenberg, Emma Copley
    • Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, The
  • Elliott, Lexie
    • French Girl, The
  • Ellison, J.T.
    • Tear Me Apart
  • Engberg, Katrine
    • Tenant , The (Korner and Werner, 1)
  • Enrich, David
    • Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History, The
  • Eriksson, Kjell
    • Cruel Stars of the Night, The
  • Eskens, Allen
    • Nothing More Dangerous
    • Life We Bury, The
    • Shadows We Hide, The (Joe Talbert, #2)

F

  • Farrow, Ronan
    • Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
  • Feeney, Alice
    • Daisy Darker
    • Sometimes I Lie
  • Ferencik, Erica
    • River at Night, The
  • Firstman, Richard
    • Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science, The
  • Flores, Dan
    • Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
  • Flynn, Gillian
    • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  • Foley, Lucy
    • Paris Apartment, The
  • Fossum, Karin
    • Eva's Eye (Inspector Konard Sejer #1)
  • Fox, Porter
    • Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
  • Freudenberger, Nell
    • Lost and Wanted
  • Frost, Caroline
    • Shadows of Pecan Hollow

G

  • Ganim, Peter
    • Unquiet Dead , The (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)
  • Gladwell, Malcolm
    • Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
  • Goldman, Matt
    • Gone to Dust (Nils Shapiro #1)
  • Goldstein, Amy
    • Janesville: An American Story
  • Grafton, Sue
    • Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25)
  • Graham, Holter
    • Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
  • Grann, David
    • Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    • White Darkness, The
  • Greenwald, Glenn
    • No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
  • Griffiths, Elly
    • Ghost Fields , The (Ruth Galloway, #7)
    • Outcast Dead, The (Ruth Galloway, #6)
  • Grisham, John
    • Camino Island
  • Groom, Winston
    • El Paso
  • Gruber, Michael
    • Good Son, The
  • Gudenkauf, Heather
    • Missing Pieces
    • Overnight Guest, The
    • This is How I Lied

H

  • Haidt, Jonathan
    • Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, The
  • Harkins, Anthony
    • Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
  • Harper, Jane
    • Exiles
    • Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)
  • Harris, Robert
    • Conclave
  • Harrison, Mette Ivie
    • His Right Hand
  • Haupt, Jennifer
    • In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills
  • Hayes, Christopher L.
    • Colony in a Nation, A
  • Heaberlin, Julia
    • Paper Ghosts
  • Hemert, Caroline Van
    • Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds, The
  • Henriques, Diana B.
    • Wizard of Lies, The
  • Higashino, Keigo
    • Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)
  • Hillerman, Anne
    • Rock with Wings (Leaphorn & Chee, #20)
    • Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee #19)
  • Hillier, Jennifer
    • Jar of Hearts
  • Hochschild, Arlie Russell
    • Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
  • Horowitz, Anthony
    • Sentence Is Death , The (Hawthorne and Horowitz Investigate #2)

I

  • Ide, Joe
    • IQ (IQ #1)
  • Indriðason, Arnaldur
    • Shadow District, The (Reykjavik Wartime Mystery #1)

J

  • Jacobs, Ryan
    • Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus, The
  • Jiles, Paulette
    • News of the World
  • Jr., Ben Bradlee
    • Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America, The
  • Jónasson, Ragnar
    • Blackout (Dark Iceland #3)
    • Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2)
    • Outside
    • Snowblind (Dark Iceland #1)
    • Island, The (Hidden Iceland #2)
    • Mist, The (Hidden Iceland #3)

K

  • Kellerman, Jonathan
    • Best American Crime Reporting 2008, The
  • Kelly, Mary Louise
    • Bullet, The
  • Kendzior, Sarah
    • View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America, The
  • Khan, Ausma Zehanat
    • Unquiet Dead , The (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)
  • King, Stephen
    • Fairy Tale
  • Klebold, Sue
    • Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, A
  • Kolhatkar, Sheelah
    • Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
  • Koppel, Ted
    • Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
  • Kotlowitz, Alex
    • American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, An
  • Kovac, Christina
    • Cutaway, The
  • Krasnostein, Sarah
    • Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, The
  • Kruse, Kevin M.
    • One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

L

  • Lagercrantz, David
    • Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5), The (Millennium #5)
  • LaPlante, Alice
    • Half Moon Bay
  • Larsson, Åsa
    • Second Deadly Sin, The (Rebecka Martinsson, #5)
    • Until Thy Wrath be Past (Rebecka Martinsson, #4)
  • Lende, Heather
    • Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
  • Leonard, Christopher
    • Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
  • Leveritt, Mara
    • Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
  • Lewis, Ben
    • Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting, The
  • Lippman, Laura
    • Sunburn
  • Littlejohn, Emily
    • Inherit the Bones (Detective Gemma Monroe #1)
  • Lukianoff, Greg
    • Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, The
  • Lysiak, Matthew
    • Newtown: An American Tragedy
  • Läckberg, Camilla
    • Preacher , The (Peter Hedstrom #2)

M

  • Maddow, Rachel
    • Blowout
  • Makkai, Rebecca
    • I Have Some Questions for You
  • Marzano-Lesnevich, Alexandria
    • Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, The
  • McCarroll, Meredith
    • Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
  • McCarthy, Rob
    • Hollow Men, The (Dr Harry Kent #1)
  • McGivney, Annette
    • Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures, and the Search for Heaven on Earth
  • McGrath, Ben
    • Riverman: An American Odyssey
  • McMahon, Jennifer
    • Burntown
  • McMillan, Roy
    • Conclave
  • McNamara, Michelle
    • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  • Miller, Mary
    • Biloxi
  • Miller, T Christian
    • Unbelievable Story: She Said She Was Raped. Detectives Said She Lied. How Police Investigate Sexual Assault in America., An
  • Murdoch, Sierra Crane
    • Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

N

  • Nagorski, Andrew
    • Nazi Hunters, The

O

  • O'Connell, Caitlin
    • White Gold (Catherine Sohon #2)
  • Oswalt, Patton
    • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  • Ould, Chris
    • Blood Strand , The (Faroes #1)
    • Fire Pit, The (Faroes #3)

P

  • Palmer, Anna
    • Hill to Die on: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America, The
  • Paul, Pamela
    • My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
  • Penny, Louise
    • Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
    • Hangman, The (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #6.5)
  • Penzler, Otto
    • Best American Crime Reporting 2008, The
  • Petrie, Nicholas
    • Burning Bright (Peter Ash #2)
  • Petrie, Nick
    • Light It Up (Peter Ash #3)
  • Preston, Douglas
    • Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story, The
  • Preston, John
    • Dig, The
  • Prose, Nita
    • Maid, The

Q

R

  • Racine, Stephanie
    • Daisy Darker
  • Ratliff, Evan
    • Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal., The
  • Raver, Lorna
    • Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
  • Reel, Monte
    • Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon, The
  • Reich-Osang, Anja
    • Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage, The
  • Riddle, A.G.
    • Genome (The Extinction Files #2)
    • Pandemic (The Extinction Files #1)
    • Genome (The Extinction Files #2)
  • Roberts, David
    • Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
    • Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, The
  • Rosenthal, Elisabeth
    • American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back, An
  • Rozan, S.J.
    • Paper Son (Lydia Chin & Bill Smith #12)
  • Ruskovich, Emily
    • Idaho

S

  • Sanders, Eli
    • While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent Into Madness
  • Sandford, John
    • Twisted Prey
  • Sanger, David E.
    • Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire, The
  • Seierstad, Åsne
    • One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
  • Servon, Lisa
    • Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives, The
  • Sherman, Jake
    • Hill to Die on: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America, The
  • Siegel, Barry
    • Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town, A
    • Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
  • Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa
    • Last Rituals: A Novel of Suspense
  • Slaughter, Karin
    • Silent Wife, The (Will Trent #10)
  • Smith, Alexis M.
    • Marrow Island
  • Smith, Dominic
    • Last Painting of Sara de Vos, The
  • Stabenow, Dana
    • No Fixed Line

T

  • Talan, Jamie
    • Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science, The
  • Tara, Sylvia
    • Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You, The
  • Thomas, Evan
    • First: Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Todd, Charles
    • Gate Keeper, The (Inspector Ian Rutledge #20)
  • Toobin, Jeffery
    • [title]
  • Toobin, Jeffrey
    • American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
  • Tremblay, Paul
    • Head Full of Ghosts, A
  • Tudor, C.J.
    • Chalk Man, The
  • Tur, Katy
    • Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

U

  • Unger, Lisa
    • Stranger Inside, The
    • Under My Skin
  • Urbina, Ian
    • Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, The

V

  • Vance, J.D.
    • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  • Vance, Simon
    • Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5), The (Millennium #5)
  • Verdon, John
    • White River Burning (Dave Gurney #6)
    • Wolf Lake (Dave Gurney #5)

W

  • Walvin, James
    • Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
  • Weber, Steven
    • I Will Find You
  • Westover, Tara
    • Educated: A Memoir
  • White, Christian
    • Second Skin
  • Wolff, Michael
    • Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
  • Wright, Lawrence
    • End October, The

X

Y

Z

  • Zackman, Gabra
    • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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