Gab Bag Titles April 2021

Fiction About Betty’s Boob – Vero Cazet and The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood Juliet Rochelieu The Heart Mender – Andy Andrews The After Party – Anton DiSclafani Hearts of Horses – Molly Gloss Age of Desire – Jennie Fields The Hideaway – Lauren K. Denton Ali and Nino – Kurban Said The History of Wolves – Emily Fridlund The Alice Network – Kate Quinn Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie All the Time in the World – Caroline Angell Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion – The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Fannie Flagg Jamie Ford An American Marriage – Tayari Jones* A House Among the Trees – Julia Glass* Annie Dunne – Sebastian Barry The Hundred-Foot Journey – Robert Morais The Arsonist – Sue Miller The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty The Art of Confidence – Wendy Lee The Innocence of Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton* Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein In the Kingdom of Men – Kim Barnes Astonish Me – Maggie Shipstead Into the Beautiful North – Luis Alberto Urrea The Awakening - Kate Chopin The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd Beekeeper's Apprentice – Laurie R. King The Japanese Lover – Isabel Allende The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain Last One Home – Debbie Macomber The Book Thief – Markus Zusak The Leavers – Lisa Ko Brat Farrar – Josephine Tey Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka The Lifeboat – Charlotte Rogan The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway The Light Between Oceans – M.L. Stedman City of Thieves – David Benioff Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk – Kathleen Rooney Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders The Confidant – Helene Gremillon Little Deaths – Emma Flint Crooked Heart – Lissa Evans Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng Crossing Purgatory – Gary Schanbacher Lottery – Patricia Wood The Curiosity – Stephen Kiernan Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Dear Life – Alice Munro Garcia Marquez Death at La Fenice – Donna Leon Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson The Dinner – Herman Koch A Man Called Ove – Fredrick Backman The Dog Stars – Peter Heller Me Before You – Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail The Middlesteins – Jami Attenberg Honeyman Miss Jane – Brad Watson Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery Mudbound – Hilary Jordan England, England – Julian Barnes* My Antonia – Willa Cather Euphoria – Lily King News of the World – Paulette Jiles Eye of the Red Tsar – Sam Eastland A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly Faith – Jennifer Haigh No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency - Faithful – Alice Hoffman Alexander McCall Smith Family Life – Akhil Sharma Old Filth – Jane Gardam A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway Old Herbaceous – Reginald Arkett Forsaken – Ross Howell, Jr. Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout The Gardens of Consolation – Parisa Reza The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson Gilead – Marilynne Robinson Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor Our Souls at Night – Kent Haruf Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Pachinko – MinJin Lee Mary Ann Shaffer A Paris Apartment – Michelle Gable Passing – Nella Larsen Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat – The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma – Ratika Kapur Hal Herzog Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver Stamped – Jason Reynolds / Ibram X. Kendi* The Reivers – William Faulkner The Rent Collector – Camron Steve Wright Biography/Autobiography The Reservoir – John Milliken Thompson Bettyville – George Hodgman The Second Mrs. Hockaday – Susan Rivers Call the Midwife – Jennifer Worth Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult Crashing Through – Robert Kurson Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson Educated – Tara Westover Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See Garlic and Sapphires – Ruth Reichl Someone – Alice McDermott The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls State of Wonder – Ann Patchett Grandma Gatewood’s Walk – Ben Montgomery Still in Love – Michael Downing Spy Pilot – Francis Gary Powers, Jr. The Submission – Amy Waldman Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand Sutton – J.R. Moehringer A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson There There – Tommy Orange West with the Night – Beryl Markham The Tilted World - Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly* History Touch – Courtney Maum Alone on the Ice – David Roberts A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith Beat the Last Drum – Thomas J. Fleming* True Memoirs of Little K – Adrienne Sharp Beautiful Swimmers – William W. Warner The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards – The Boys in the Boat – Daniel Brown Kristopher Jansma The Children’s Blizzard – David Laskin The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett Devil in the White City – Erik Larson The Uninvited Guests – Sadie Jones Empire of the Summer Moon – S.C. Gwynne Varina – Charles Frazier Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly A Very Long Engagement – Sebastien Japrisot Higher – Neal Bascomb* The Viscount’s Daughter – Phyllis Haislip In the Kingdom of Ice – Hampton Sides Waiting – Ha Jin Into Africa – Martin Dugard Welcome to the World, Baby Girl – Fanny Flagg The Johnstown Flood – David McCullough The Welsh Girl – Peter Ho Davies The Judgment of Paris - Ross King When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens The Lost King of France – Deborah Cadbury The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga Love and Hate in Jamestown – David Price The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham The Widow’s War – Sally Gunning Monuments Men – Robert M. Edsel The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress – Ariel Rocket Men – Robert Kurson Lawson Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keefe The Wreath – Sigrid Undset Sex Lives of Cannibals – Maarten Troost The Year of the Comet – Sergei Lebedev Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks Thunderstruck – Erik Larson Twilight of Empire – Greg King and Penny Wilson

Current Events New titles are added on a regular basis; please Being Mortal – Atul Gawande check with the Reference Desk, search the catalog, Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates or visit www.wrl.org/gabbags Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer *new titles / coming soon Chesapeake Requiem – Earl Swift April 2021 Genius of Birds – Jennifer Ackerman How to Be An Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi* The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich Nothing to Envy – Barbara Demick