REQUIRED READING

Now You See Us

Balli Kaur Jaswal (f iction, William Morrow) A wildly entertaining, sharp comedy seen through the eyes of three women who work in the homes of Singapore elite. When one of their own is suddenly accused of murder, they band together to solve the case and clear their friend’s name.

Pineapple Street

Jenny Jackson (f iction, Pamela Dorman Books) A wealthy Brooklyn Heights family has drama to spare — not to mention plenty of trust funds — in this modern take on a Gilded Age novel.

In Memoriam

Alice Winn (fiction, Knopf) It’s 1914, and World War I is taking the lives of countless young men sent to the front. The news seems distant to the boys at their boarding school in the English countryside — even as the names come to include their own classmates. Meanwhile, two boys pine for each other at school.

Storm Watch

CJ Box (f iction, GP Putnam’s Sons) A prominent University of Wyoming professor has gone missing, and there aren’t any good leads — that is, until Game Warden Joe Pickett finds the professor’s frozen, mutilated body — and then his investigation is stonewalled at every opportunity.

Women are the FIERCEST Creatures

Andrea Dunlop (f iction, Zibby Books) Tech wunderkind Jake Sarnoff has an ex wife, a new wife, and an ex girlfriend who all decide it might be time to take him down a notch as he prepares to take his company public — having conveniently written the three women out of the startup’s history.

Marvelous

Molly Greeley (f iction, William Morrow) Set in the Renaissance court of Catherine de’ Medici, this novel recreates the story behind the legend of “The Beauty and the Beast.”