REQUIRED READING

The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience

Aditi Nerurkar, MD (Harper One) Nerurkar, an internal medicine physician and Harvard lecturer, reframes stress as a healthy and normal biological response for coping with life that just needs to be effectively managed.

The Fury

Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books) In this buzzy thriller, a reclusive movie star takes a holiday with friends to a remote Greek island. But, the idyllic escape ends in murder.

How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

Brad Jacobs (Greenleaf Book Group Press) The executive chairman of XPO, Inc., a trucking and logistics giant, shares his tips and techniques for being a successful entrepreneur and dynamic leader.

Only If You’re Lucky: A Novel

Stacy Willingham (Minotaur Books) This twisty thriller, set at a liberal arts college in South Carolina, explores that most dangerous relationship: female friendship. Lucy is a bold ringleader, and Margot is a shy girl coming into her own — until the frat boy-next-door is murdered and Lucy goes missing.

Searching for Patty Hearst: A True Crime Novel

Roger D. Rapoport (Lexographic Press) This year marks the 50th anniversary of Hearst’s kidnapping. Rapoport covered the case decades ago as a reporter, and, with his new novel, aims to give readers a fuller account of and greater insight into what really happened.

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

Benjamin Breen (Grand Central Publishing) While most associate the ‘60s and ‘70s with psychedelics, Breen goes back further, looking at how the drugs were legal and fairly mainstream in the ‘40s and ‘50s. His fascinating revisionist history is a wild ride that includes dosing dolphins with LSD to teach them to talk, a tripping Cary Grant opining about outer space and Hegel and anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.