Books

Publishers Weekly’s U.S. list powered by NPD BookScan for the week ending Jan. 18. HARDCOVERFICTION1. LOST, by James Patterson and ...

 The actor, known for his comic turns on TV series (Alec Baldwin's high-strung assistant on "30 Rock," Mary Louise Parker's protégé on "Weeds"), plays a small but key role in the new Broadway play "Grand Horizons."

Port Jefferson DJ K.C. Armstrong talks about working for Howard Stern and about the stories of survival in his book "Simply Amazing."

In Sue Rainsford's gripping "Follow Me to Ground," villagers with mysterious healing powers aren't all they seem to be. 

The novel's copyright is set to expire at the end of 2020, meaning that anyone will be allowed to publish the book, adapt it to a movie, make it into an opera or stage a Broadway musical. 

"True Blood" author Charlaine Harris brings imagination and magic to "A Longer Fall," an alternate-history yarn.

"American Dirt," published Tuesday, tells of a bookstore owner in Acapulco, Mexico, who loses much of her family to a murderous drug cartel and flees north on a terrifying journey with her 8-year-old son. 

Isabel Allende displays her magic for storytelling in "A Long Petal of the Sea," a beautifully written saga set mostly in Chile from 1938 to 1994 about war, love and displaced persons.

Publishers Weekly’s U.S. list powered by NPD BookScan for the week ending Jan. 11. HARDCOVERFICTION1. THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE ...

Delia Owens' "Where the Crawdads Sing" was the most checked out book in Nassau and Suffolk libraries in 2019. What else made the top 10 lists?