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The Smell of Others People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock The Graces by Laure Eve The Dead Father’s Club by Matt Haig The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls Gemini by Sonya Mukherjee Slade House by David Mitchel The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell A Tyranny of Petticoats by YA “Tyranny” The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows The Dinner by Herman Koch All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Wool Trilogy by Hugh Howey 11/22/63 by Stephen King The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins The Martian by Andy Weir Dark Places by Gillian Flynn The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Night Film by Marisha Pessl Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Brooklyn by Colm Toibin Book Resources While the City Slept by Eli Sanders • GoodReads Seinfeldia: the Secret World of the “Show About Nothing” that Changed • Bookpage.com Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong • NPR Book Reviews Rooms by Lauren Oliver • BorrowReadRepeat.com Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom • Bookclubish.com The Painted House by John Grisham • LibraryReads.org A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Horns by Joe Hill Book Podcasts The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt • Biblioclast White Oleander by Janet Fitch • Book Club For Masochists 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami • Book Fight! Ready, Player One by Ernest Cline • Two Book Minimum Wonder by R.J. Palcio • Dear Book Nerd The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan • Literary Disco One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey • The Readers Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane • Overdue The Opposite of Loneliness, Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan • Drunk Booksellers: The Podcast Her, A memoir. by Christa Parravani • So Many Damn Books Look At Me by Jennifer Egan The Collected Stories by Grace Paley The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Book 1 of 4 The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr Under The Influence by Joyce Maynard Union County 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult Library System A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris One woman’s struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal, from one of the greatest storytellers of our time (The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien) Supposedly brilliant students at a posh Vermont school are involved in two murders, one supposedly accidental and one deliberate (The Secret History by Donna Tartt) This sequel to The Shining follows Danny Torrance as an adult (Doctor Sleep by Stephen King) A lighthouse keeper and his grieving wife find a baby (The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman) A murder is narrated by the victim. (The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold) Actor, Alan Cummings, memoir of emotional abuse (Not My Father’s Son) Follow a dynasty of witches across four centuries Freaks, a mermaid, a factory fire and a photographer. (The Witching Hour by Anne Rice) (The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman) A brief analysis on the beauty of cheese, hot dogs, and deep Falling deeply in love twelve hours before being deported. fried twinkies (Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan) (Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon) A stunning, intimate re-imagining of Norma Jeane Baker AKA Fruit holds the key to the murder of a disgraced scientist. Marilyn Monroe (Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates) (The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge) Nothing makes you realize how goofy life is until you’re Famous artist’s death brings together unlikely friends and voluntarily committed to a psych ward (It’s Kind of a Funny Story vandalism. (Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Blunt) by Ned Vizzini) Mystery, ghost story and romance rolled into one. What was he like before he frankly didn’t give a damn? (Carry on! By Rainbow Rowell) (Rhett Butler’s People by Daniel McCaig) Nazis invade France, Vianne and her daughter must live with Did you ever wonder what the first Mrs. Rochester thought the enemy or lose everything about Jane Eyre? (Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys) (The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah) Books are not a suitable substitution for firewood, especially in A sophisticated mystery where an elderly woman with dementia an age of ignorance (Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury) embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she The true story of a twin sister’s life after her twin Cara dies believes has disappeared (Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey) suddenly, how she lives on without her other half. (Her: A Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister, Jane: a passionate reader, Memoir by Christa Parravani) a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political The story of a mass school shooting in the wake of commentator (Book of Ages by Jill Lepore) Columbine and others, but from the perspective of the A window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was shooter, a heartbreaking account of the effects of bullying lost in Einstein’s enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein’s in a public school atmosphere. (19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult) wife (The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict) A collection of essays, stories, and some memoir writing by Sara traveled in from Sweden to meet her book-loving pen pal, Marian Keegan compiled after her sudden and unexpected Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy’s funeral death in a car accident only 5 days after graduation at the age (The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald) of 22. (The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan) An incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of In the forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there discovered. Within it’s pages are 9 key insights to life itself - unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. (The Girls of insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially, Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped one insight then another, as we move toward a completely Win World War II by Denise Kiernan) spiritual culture on Earth. (The Celestine Prophecy, An Adventure by James Redfield) Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life - and for the two women who answer, the Looking for a book or audiobook not consequences are devastating (The Girl Before by JP Delaney) found in the library’s collection? Follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark We’ve got you covered! tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious Borrow books and audiobooks for free from other dictatorship, North Korea (The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam libraries in PA and the nation using InterLibrary Loan. Johnson) Submit an InterLibrary Loan request by emailing ill@publibuc.org.

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