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Winman, Sarah Tin Man (Contemporary Fiction) A heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms gradually reveals a fallout between two longtime friends and Oxford students over the course of a decade marked by the marriage of one and the disappearance of the other. —Recommended by Ellen J.

Winspear, Jacqueline To Die but Once (Historical Mystery, Maisie Dobbs #14) Investigating the disappearance of an apprentice craftsman who had been working on a secret government contract, Maisie Dobbs discovers suspicious links to the London underworld and another boy close to her heart. —Recommended by Patricia and Erica

Wolitzer, Meg The Female Persuasion (Literary Fiction) A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned. —Recommended by Erica, Jenn and Jo

Youngson, Anne Meet Me at the Museum (Contemporary Fiction) A disenchanted farmer's wife and a widowed museum curator begin a correspondence over their mutual fascination with poet Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and gradually share details from their lives, forging an unexpected bond along the way. —Recommended by Sonia, Melissa and Jenn

40 Abbott, Megan Walker, Nico Give Me Your Hand (Thriller) Cherry (Contemporary Fiction) A decade after distancing herself from a high school Rashly marrying his college girlfriend to keep their friend, Kit Owens finds herself competing for a relationship active during his tour of duty, a college coveted research position against her former friend, dropout-turned-army soldier is overwhelmed by the a competition that threatens to destroy them both. realities of war, PTSD, and opioid addiction before —Recommended by Emily forging a desperate plan. —Recommended by Jenn

Ackerman, Elliot Waiting for Eden (Literary Fiction) Walsh, Rosie A veteran enduring life trapped in his own mind Ghosted (Contemporary Fiction) begins to find a way to communicate before An idyllic romance between Sarah and her boyfriend, troubling realities about his marriage come to the Eddie, is shattered when Eddie abruptly disappears, surface. prompting Sarah to ignore her friends' advice and —Recommended by Becky investigate what really happened. —Recommended by Susie

Adeyemi, Tomi Children of Blood and Bone (Young Adult Fantasy) Ware, Ruth Zâelie, her brother Tzain, and Princess Amari fight to The Death of Mrs. Westaway (Thriller) restore magic to the land and activate a new After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about generation of magi, but they are pursued by Amari’s a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceased’s brother, the crown prince, who believes the return of funeral and realizes that something is very, very magic will mean the end of the monarchy. wrong. —Recommended by Ellen, Jocelyn, Andrea, Jean, —Recommended by Ellen J. Jo, Heather and Haley

Wells, Martha Ahmed, Samira All Systems Red (Science Fiction) Love, Hate & Other Filters A team of scientists and their security android, who (Young Adult Contemporary Fiction) unbeknownst to the scientists has hacked its own Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents’ governor module, must investigate a neighboring world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy mission that has gone dark. and her dream world of film school and when a —Recommended by Vanessa terrorist attack changes her life forever. —Recommended by Joe

2 39 Tyler, Anne Albert, Melissa Clock Dance (Contemporary Fiction) The Hazel Wood (Young Adult Fantasy) After receiving a call from a stranger about her son's When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's ex-girlfriend being injured, Willa flies across the book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, country to Baltimore to take care of her and her 17-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed 9-year-old daughter. fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue —Recommended by Jo and Jane Alice's kidnapped mother. —Recommended by Lindsay, Erica, Jenn, Mark

and Jo

Urrea, Luis Alberto The House of Broken Angels (Contemporary Fiction) Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego Anthony, Gretchen neighborhood, revelers mingle among the palm trees Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners and cacti, celebrating the lives of family patriarch (Contemporary Fiction) Miguel "Big Angel" De La Cruz and his mother, and Formidable matriarch Violet Baumgartner learns the recounting the many tales that have passed into hard way that no family is perfect when her family lore. daughter reveals a shocking secret in front of —Recommended by Jo and Andrea Violet's husband's whole retirement party. —Recommended by Erica, Jo and Ellen J.

Valente, Catherynne M. Space Opera (Science Fiction) Arden, Katherine The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy The Girl in the Tower (Fantasy, Winternight and glamour of Eurovision in this science fiction Trilogy #2) spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose a galactic musical contest…and the stakes are as between marriage or life in a convent and instead high as the fate of planet Earth. flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon —Recommended by Emily to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege.

—Recommended by Emily and Jo Wang, Jen The Prince and the Dressmaker (Young Adult Graphic Novel) Atkinson, Kate When Prince Sebastian confides in his dressmaker Transcription (Historical Fiction) friend Frances that he loves to masquerade at night BBC radio producer Juliet Armstrong finds herself as the fashionable Lady Crystallia, Frances must targeted by dangerous individuals from her past as a decide if Sebastian's secret is worth a lifetime of World War II espionage monitor for MI5. living in the shadows. —Recommended by Erica and Jenn —Recommended by Joe, Heather, Ann and Jo

38 3 Bayard, Tania St. James, Simone In the Presence of Evil (Historical Mystery) The Broken Girls (Thriller) Paris, 1393. Scribe Christine de Pizan dreads going More than sixty years after one of four friends in a to the palace to work, where people believe the mad reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, king can be cured with magic. But when a journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her mysterious book of spells leaves a trail of real sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made. murdered bodies in its wake, Christine has more —Recommended by Jenn than black magic to worry about. —Recommended by Susie

Benjamin, Chloe Taylor, Laini The Immortalists (Literary Fiction) Muse of Nightmares (Young Adult Fantasy) Sneaking out to get readings from a traveling As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of psychic reputed to be able to tell customers when the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile they will die, four adolescent siblings from New York hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are City's Lower East Side embark on five decades of resurrected. Sequel to Strange the Dreamer. experiences shaped by their determination to control —Recommended by Heather fate. —Recommended by Becky and Jenn

Turton, Stuart

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Mystery) Berney, Lou Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, November Road (Historical Suspense) Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn A street lieutenant for a New Orleans mob boss flees Hardcastle in order to escape the curse, in a world when his knowledge about JFK's assassination filled with enemies where nothing and no one are makes him a target, a situation that is dangerously quite what they seem. complicated by his relationship with a runaway —Recommended by Haley, Ellen J., Sue housewife. and Lindsay —Recommended by Jo, Becky, Ellen J., Jenn and Andrea Togawa, Masako Bloom, Amy The Master Key (Mystery) White Houses (Historical Fiction) The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over a After meeting the future first lady while covering hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, Franklin Roosevelt's campaign, prominent journalist now grown and old - and in some cases, evil. Lorena Hickock and Eleanor Roosevelt discover a —Recommended by Erica powerful passion between them.

—Recommended by Jo

4 37 Silvera, Adam Blum, Yoay They Both Die at the End The Coincidence Makers (Suspense) (Young Adult Science Fiction) Working for a secret group that orchestrates Receiving word from Death-Cast that they are about coincidental occurrences to spark significant to die, Mateo and Rufus meet for the first time via an changes in the lives of their targets, Guy receives End Day friendship app that facilitates their meeting an assignment with the capacity to profoundly and a final grand adventure that triggers unexpected change lives and teach the true nature of fate, free changes. will, and love. —Recommended by Heather —Recommended by Erica

Sittenfeld, Curtis Borman, Tracy You Think It, I’ll Say It (Short Stories) The King’s Witch (Historical Fiction) This collection of 10 short stories features both origi- Attending the death of Elizabeth I and forced to nal pieces and two previously published in The New navigate the decadence of James I's witch-hunting Yorker, including "The World Has Many Butterflies," court, talented herbalist Frances Gorges becomes a in which married acquaintances play a strangely pawn in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. intimate game, with devastating consequences. —Recommended by Susie —Recommended by Andrea and Jane

Small, David Bowen, Rhys Home After Dark (Graphic Novel) Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his (Historical Mystery, Royal Spyness #12) mother, follows his father to dilapidated 1950s Lady Georgiana Rannoch's establishment as Marshfield, California where he is forced to fend for mistress of a grand estate is stymied by the himself against a ring of malicious bullies. property's disarray, the curious incompetence of the —Recommended by Becky staff and a suspicious gas leak. —Recommended by Jane

Bracht, Mary Lynn Spalding, Amy White Chrysanthemum (Historical Fiction) The Summer of Jordi Perez Having spent her entire youth under Japanese (Young Adult Contemporary) occupation, a young woman in World War II-era Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives Korea follows in her mother's footsteps as an elite has always been content playing the sidekick in female diver, only to be forced into prostitution in other people’s lives. Abby’s been happy to focus on order to save her beloved younger sister. her plus-size style blog and her dreams of taking the —Recommended by Jean fashion industry by storm. —Recommended by Ann

36 5 Brennan, Sarah Rees Saunders, George In Other Lands (Young Adult Fantasy) Fox 8: A Story (Fable) Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people Idealistic Fox 8's ability to communicate in "Yuman" (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human cannot save his pack when their den and food supply transported to a fantasy world where he attends a are destroyed to build a mall, so he writes a letter school for warriors and diplomatic advisers, finds asking for an explanation of human's cruelty. that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, —Recommended by Andrea, Nate, Jo and Jean may actually be possible. —Recommended by Heather

Broder, Melissa Setterfield, Diane The Pisces (Magical Realism) Once Upon a River (Thriller) Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral When the seemingly dead body of a child student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where the Thames, three families try to claim her. she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Si- —Recommended by Ellen J. renic identity transforms her understanding of what real love looks like.

—Recommended by Jenn

Brown, Pierce Shaffer, Andrew Iron Gold (Science Fiction, Red Rising Saga #4) Hope Never Dies (Mystery) Ten years after the revolution that was supposed to Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack bring freedom but instead brought endless war, Obama team up in this high-stakes thriller that Darrow and the Rising battle the remaining Gold combines a mystery worthy of Watson and Holmes loyalist forces in order to abolish the color-coded with the laugh-out-loud bromantic chemistry of Lethal caste system, only to be challenged by dangerous Weapon’s Murtaugh and Riggs. new enemies. —Recommended by Erica —Recommended by Heather

Candlish, Louise Our House (Thriller) Shaw, Vivian Arriving home to find strangers moving into the Dreadful Company (Fantasy, Dr. Greta Helsing #2) prized family home she agreed to share with her ex, When Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, is called Fiona endures a domino effect of horrors as she to Paris to present at a medical conference, she discovers that her children have gone missing amid must navigate the darkest corners of the city to terrible revelations. escape a coven of bloodthirsty vampires. —Recommended by Haley, Jean, Ellen J., Erica, —Recommended by Susie Melissa and Sonia

6 35 Rader-Day, Lori Cannon, Joanna Under a Dark Sky (Suspense) Three Things about Elsie (Suspense) A grieving widow tackles her phobias during a A nursing home resident who has fallen in her week-long stay at a dark-sky park, where a college apartment thinks about her childhood friend, Elsie, reunion is marred by murder. This twist on a locked- and the secrets of their past that are about to come room mystery keeps readers guessing until the last to light when a man they believed was dead joins page. her retirement community. —Recommended by Jo —Recommended by Andrea and Jo

Robson, Kelly Cavallaro, Brittany Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach The Case for Jamie (Young Adult Mystery) (Science Fiction) A year after August's death, Jamie and Charlotte are When Minh gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 manipulated into reforming their detective team by BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she someone who wants to see them suffer. jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the —Recommended by Erica shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.

—Recommended by Joe Carroll, James The Cloister (Historical Fiction) A priest and a Holocaust survivor find their Sager, Riley perspectives and senses of identity reshaped by The Last Time I Lied (Thriller) their shared investigation into the classic romance When Emma Davis, a rising star in the New York art between discredited religious scholar Peter Abelard scene, returns to teach painting at the summer and his intellectual paramour, Héloïse. camp she attended, she uses the opportunity to look —Recommended by Ellen J. into the disappearance of her friends fifteen years earlier. —Recommended by Mark Casale, Jana The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky (Contemporary Fiction) Sarvas, Mark A college student's procrastination over reading a Memento Park (Literary Fiction) Noam Chomsky novel becomes a metaphor When Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting throughout subsequent decades of milestones that believed to have been looted from his family in reflect the disparity between the carefully planned World War II, he must reconnect with his father, his life she wants and the person she is really meant to family history, and his own Judaism in order to be. recover the mysterious work. —Recommended by Susie —Recommended by Debbie 34 7 Cavanagh, Steve Pelecanos, George The Plea (Thriller, Eddie Flynn #2) The Man Who Came Uptown (Suspense) Pressured by the FBI to secure a murder suspect's Unexpectedly released from jail, Michael Hudson testimony against a corrupt law firm, con artist- confronts profound changes in his Washington, D.C. turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn begins to believe the home while struggling between loyalties to the suspect is innocent in spite of overwhelming person responsible for his freedom and the prison evidence to the contrary. librarian who helped him develop a love of reading. —Recommended by Becky —Recommended by Jo and Becky

Center, Katherine Perry, Sarah How to Walk Away (Contemporary Fiction) Melmoth (Paranormal Fiction) When an accident on what was supposed to be the A follow-up to The Essex Serpent finds Helen, an happiest day of her life lands her in the hospital English translator working in Prague, disregarding an with a very uncertain future, Margaret struggles to obscure local monster legend before a friend's come to terms with family secrets, heartbreak and disappearance reveals that Helen is being watched. starting over before discovering love in an —Recommended by Lindsay unexpected place. —Recommended by Jane

Powers, Richard Cantero, Edgar The Overstory (Historical Fiction) Meddling Kids (Suspense) A novel of activism and natural-world power presents The surviving members of a forgotten teen detective interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers club and their dog reunite as broken adults to em- who are summoned in different ways by trees for an bark on an effort to solve a terrifying cold case that ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison. —Recommended by Erica —Recommended by Erica Penny, Louse Kingdom of the Blind (Mystery, Armand Gamache #14) Clayton, Dhonielle When a letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an The Belles (Young Adult Fantasy) abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the In a world where beauty is a commodity only a few Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete control, beautiful Camellia learns the dark secrets stranger has named him one of the executors of her behind her powers and is asked to choose between will. saving herself or changing her world forever. —Recommended by Ellen J. and Jenn —Recommended by Heather

8 33 Orange, Tommy Cole, Alyssa There There (Contemporary Fiction) A Princess in Theory (Romance) A novel that grapples with the complex history and Mistaken by his betrothed as a pauper instead of a identity of Native Americans follows twelve prince, Prince Thabiso, the sole heir to the throne of characters, each of whom has private reasons for Thesolo, decides to keep his real identity a secret traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. as he experiences life and love with Naledi Smith. —Recommended by Andrea and Ellen J. —Recommended by Andrea, Erica and Jocelyn

Owens, Delia Contreras, Rojas Where the Crawdads Sing (Mystery) Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Historical Fiction) Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, A novel set against the violence of 1990s Columbia Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes tar- an unlikely friendship as the families of both geted by unthinkable forces. struggle to maintain stability amidst Bogota's —Recommended by Andrea, Becky and Ellen J. rapidly escalating violence. —Recommended by Vanessa

Page, Libby The Lido (Contemporary Fiction) Crowley, Cath An anxiety-riddled cub reporter for a small London Words in Deep Blue (Young Adult Romance) paper is assigned to cover the closing of a local rec- Teenagers Rachel and Henry find their way back to reation center and bonds with an eighty-six-year-old each other while working in an old bookstore full of widow who has swum in the community pool every secrets and crushes, love letters and memories, day since childhood. grief and hope. —Recommended by Erica and Sonia —Recommended by Haley

Pearce, A.J. Dear Mrs. Bird (Historical Fiction) An adventurous young woman takes a typist job to Dare, Tessa assist the war effort and lands in the employ of a The Governess Game (Historical Romance) renowned advice columnist before she begins When Alexandra Mountbatten, the governess hired secretly replying to heart-wrenching letters rejected to turn his orphaned wards into proper young as unsuitable. ladies, tries to reform him, infamous libertine —Recommended by Andrea, Melissa and Jenn Chase Reynaud decides to make her pay by teaching her a lesson in pleasure. —Recommended by Erica

32 9 De Los Santos, Marisa Novik, Naomi I’ll Be Your Blue Sky (Contemporary Fiction) Spinning Silver (Fantasy) Three weeks after an elderly neighbor helps her find Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed the courage to end an unhealthy relationship, Clare her family of moneylenders, a young woman is unexpectedly inherits a small house from the woman overheard boasting about being able to turn silver and with the help of loved ones pieces together the into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in a story of the house and her courageous benefactor. reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story. —Recommended by Jane —Recommended by Jo, Lindsay, Emily and Andrea

Dyer, Ashley Nugent, Liz Splinter in the Blood (Mystery) Lying in Wait (Thriller) While a police officer fights for his life in the hospital, Lydia Fitzsimons, the wife of a respected judge and his trusted partner takes over an investigation into mother to a beloved son, finds their home in Dublin the serial killer behind the attack, a case that is thrown into devastating turmoil by her son's compromised by the partner's deadly secret. discovery of dark family secrets. —Recommended by Jenn —Recommended by Becky

Edugyan, Esi Washington Black (Historical Fiction) O’Dell, Claire Unexpectedly chosen to be a family manservant, an A Study in Honor (Science Fiction) 11-year-old Barbados sugar-plantation slave is Set in a near future Washington, DC, this novel initiated into a world of technology and dignity before offers a feminist twist on Sherlock Holmes, in which a devastating betrayal propels him throughout the Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes world in search of his true self. unmask a murderer. —Recommended by Joe —Recommended by Erica

Eileen, Jill Ondaatje, Michael A Passionate Hope (Biblical Fiction) Warlight (Historical Fiction) Hannah clings to her faith in God, even as she fails Years after growing up in the care of a group of to give her beloved husband the children they both mysterious protectors who served in unspecified want and he marries again, to the cruel Peninnah, ways during World War II, a young man endeavors who quickly produces the heirs that Hannah cannot. to piece together the truth about his parents and the —Recommended by Sonia unconventional education he received. —Recommended by Becky

10 31 Moyes, Jojo El Akid, Omar Still Me (Contemporary Fiction) American War (Science Fiction) Louisa Clark arrives in New York to start a new life A second American Civil War and devastating and a long-distance relationship with Ambulance plague in the late 21st century forces a family into a Sam while working for the super-wealthy Gopniks, a camp for displaced people, where a young woman job that introduces her to New York high society and is befriended by a mysterious functionary who a secretive man who reminds her of her own past. transforms her into a living weapon. Sequel to After You. —Recommended by Dave —Recommended by Jane

Murphy, Sean Enger, Leif Batman: White Knight (Graphic Novel) Virgil Wander (Contemporary Fiction) After years of epic battles, the Dark Knight finally Emerging from an accident with damaged memories finds a way to cure the twisted mind of his archene- and compromised language skills, Virgil Wander, a my, the Joker, who is now fighting for good in Go- movie-house owner from a small Midwestern town, tham City. This may cause Batman to go over the pieces together his story and the story of his edge of his own sanity. community with help from affable locals. —Recommended by Mark —Recommended by Ellen J.

Enriquez, Mariana Myerson, Amy Things We Lost in the Fire (Horror Stories) The Bookshop of Yesterdays (Contemporary Fiction) A collection of stories explores macabre dimensions A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth of life in contemporary Argentina, from women who on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut set themselves on fire to protest domestic violence about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. to a 9-year-old serial killer who acts out in gruesome —Recommended by Erica ways in her classroom. —Recommended by Lindsay

Neuvel, Sylvain Feeney, Alice Only Human (Science Fiction, Themis Files #3) Sometimes I Lie (Thriller) Returning to Earth after nearly ten years on another A coma patient is unable to move or speak but can world, Rose finds her old alliances forfeited and the hear everyone around her. She doesn't remember planet in shambles, a situation that challenges her to what happened to her, but she has a sneaking rebuild the Earth Defense Corps at the same time suspicion her husband had something to do with it. her friends start turning on one another. —Recommended by Haley —Recommended by Erica

30 11 Finn, A.J. Morris, Heather The Woman in the Window (Thriller) The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Historical Fiction) An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York A novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz- City home, drinking wine and spying on her Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration- her window that exposes her secrets and raises camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners. questions about her perceptions of reality. —Recommended by Sonia —Recommended by Haley and Jean

Morrison, Bill Fowler, Therese The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine (Graphic Novel) A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts The Beatles are recruited by the Captain of the (Historical Fiction) Yellow Submarine to help him free Sgt. Pepper's Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Lonely Hearts Club Band and the world of Vanderbilt clan, Alva navigates society snubs and Pepperland from the music-hating Blue Meanies. dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and —Recommended by Nate friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule- breaking. —Recommended by Jo Morrow, Bradford The Prague Sonata (Historical Fiction) Franklin, Tee Coming into the possession of a mysterious 18th- Bingo Love (Graphic Novel) century sonata manuscript, a young musicologist is When Hazel and Mari met at church bingo in 1963, it astonished by the mastery of the music and embarks was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families on a search for the identities of the composer and and society, they both married young men and had the manuscript's true owner. families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel —Recommended by Jocelyn and Andrea and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. —Recommended by Heather

Freeman, Dianne Morton, Kate A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder The Clockmaker’s Daughter (Historical Fiction) (Historical Mystery) In 1862, Edward Radcliffe and a group of artists Wealthy young widow Frances Wynn, the American- descend on Birchwood Manor for an artist's retreat, born Countess of Harleigh, moves from the English but the retreat ends in murder and theft, and over a countryside to Victorian London, where accusations century later a young archivist from London tries to that implicate her in her late husband's death cause discover the manor's secrets. her to begin her own investigation. —Recommended by Ellen J. and Jenn —Recommended by Jane

12 29 McIntyre, Angus French, Tana The Warrior Within (Science Fiction) The Witch Elm (Suspense) Karsman has a dozen different people living in his Left for dead by burglars after partying with friends, head, each the master of a different set of skills and a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his hoping to gain mastery of Karsman's body. He dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly survives on a backwater planet where devotion and discovery reveals an unsuspected family history. prayer can be traded for subsistence wages and —Recommended by Ellen J. and Jenn enough food to survive. —Recommended by Vanessa

Galbraith, Robert McManus, Karen M. Lethal White (Mystery, Cormoran Strike #4) One of Us Is Lying (Young Adult Thriller) When a troubled young man asks him to investigate When one of five students in detention is found a crime he thinks he saw as a child, Cormoran dead, his high-profile classmates—including a Strike sets off on a twisting trail that leads from brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer London's backstreets into a secretive inner on probation and an all-star athlete—are sanctum within Parliament and to a country manor investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the house. victim's latest gossip postings. —Recommended by Jo and Jenn —Recommended by Haley

George, Elizabeth Miller, Madeline The Punishment She Deserves Circe (Fantasy) (Mystery, Lynley #20) Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, hones Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and de- her powers and interacts with famous mythological tective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by beings before a conflict with one of the most a member of Parliament with a request to vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's the worlds of the gods and mortals. son. —Recommended by Heather, Emily, Vanessa, Jenn, —Recommended by Jane Ellen J., Jean and Jenny B.

Moriarty, Liane Giffin, Emily Nine Perfect Strangers (Thriller) All We Ever Wanted (Contemporary Fiction) At a remote health resort, nine strangers and their When her golden-boy son posts a controversial enigmatic host become subjects of interest to former photograph of a scholarship student online, best-selling novelist Frances Welty, who develops triggering a local scandal, a wife and mother finds uncomfortable doubts about the resort's real agenda. herself sympathizing more with the girl's family than —Recommended by Andrea her own. —Recommended by Jane

28 13 Giordano, Mario Maxwell, Alyssa Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Suspense) A Devious Death Retiring to Sicily in the hopes of spending her final (Historical Mystery, Lady and Lady’s Maid, #3) years enjoying the ocean view, the wine and the Hoping to spend a relaxing summer at the new company of friends, 60-year-old Auntie Poldi estate of their cousin, Phoebe and her sister, Julia, discovers that her new home is not as tranquil as witness a family dispute about an unequal anticipated when her handsome young handyman is inheritance before turning their suspicions on a new found murdered. lady's maid in the wake of an untimely death. —Recommended by Andrea —Recommended by Susie

McCauley, Stephen Gortner, C.W. My Ex-Life (Contemporary Fiction) The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Hitting rock bottom after his beautiful apartment is Feodorovna (Historical Fiction) sold to his ex, David receives an unexpected call Marrying the Romanov heir, nineteen-year-old from his first wife, Julie, and agrees to help her sullen Danish princess Minnie becomes empress of Russia teen daughter get into college, an endeavor that and treads a perilous path of compromise in a brings lingering feelings and unresolved issues to beloved but resistance-torn country where her son light. becomes the last tsar. —Recommended by Jane —Recommended by Vanessa

McCullough, Joy Gowar, Imogen Hermes Blood Water Paint (Young Adult Novel in Verse) The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock (Historical Fiction) By the time she was 17, Artemisia was one of When one of his trading vessels returns to 18th- Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew century London with the remarkable body of a mer- her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men maid, Jonah gains entry into high society and falls in took what they wanted, and in the aftermath of rape, love with a highly accomplished courtesan, with Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of unexpected consequences. silence or a life of truth. —Recommended by Andrea —Recommended by Heather

Gray, Tammy L. McDaniel, Juliet My Hope Next Door (Inspirational) Mr. & Mrs. American Pie (Romance) Former bad girl Katie Stone can feel the weight of When notable Palm Springs socialite Maxine her reputation settle over her as she drives home for Simmons finds out that her husband is leaving her the first time in years. Feeling guilty about her past for his 22-year-old secretary, she sets out to prove mistakes, Katie wants to do the right thing. But the her worth by entering a 'best housewife' pageant in small town where she grew up is not nearly as 1970 Palm Springs. forgiving as she'd hoped. —Recommended by Erica —Recommended by Erica

14 27 Makkai, Rebecca Halpern, Sue The Great Believers (Literary Fiction) Summer Hours at the Robbers Library A novel set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary (Contemporary Fiction) Paris follows the director of a Chicago art gallery A head librarian trying to forget the painful realities and a woman looking for her estranged daughter in of her suburban past unexpectedly bonds with a Paris who both struggle to come to terms with the teenager performing community service, a ways AIDS has affected their lives. disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer and other —Recommended by Jo and Jane offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self- imposed isolation. —Recommended by Sonia, Jean, Jo, Erica, Andrea and Jane Malerman, Josh Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas (Horror) The author of Bird Box and Black Mad Hamilton, Steve Wheel presents a novel in six novellas. Fans of Dead Man Running (Mystery, Alex McKnight #11) creepy, eerie, and genuinely unsettling horror will In a hunt that will take him across the country and to devour this set of vignettes about the aptly named the edge of his limits, Alex McKnight fights to stop a town of Goblin, Mich. vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate —Recommended by Mark revenge. —Recommended by Jane

Molloy, Aimee Hannah, Kristin The Perfect Mother (Thriller) The Great Alone (Historical Fiction) A group of new moms go to increasingly risky When her father impulsively moves the family to lengths to help one of their own when her six-week mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni old baby is kidnapped and the traumatized mother is and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of subjected to invasive questions. their lack of preparedness in the wake of a —Recommended by Jean dangerous winter season. —Recommended by Jean, Ellen J. and Jo

Massey, Sujata Hannah, Sophie The Widows of Malabar Hill (Mystery) The Mystery in Three Quarters (Mystery) In 1921, Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford Accused by strangers of trying to set them up for graduate Perveen Mistry, investigates a suspicious murder, Hercule Poirot teams up with Scotland Yard will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict policeman Edward Catchpool to investigate the seclusion who become subject to a murderous drowning death of an elderly man. guardian's schemes for their inheritances. —Recommended by Jenn —Recommended by Andrea, Ellen J. and Erica

26 15 Harper, Jane Lockhart, E. Force of Nature (Mystery, Aaron Falk #2) Genuine Fraud (Young Adult Suspense) When one member of a five-woman team of Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and co-workers goes missing during a corporate retreat, Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost federal police agent Aaron Falk uncovers dark anything to attain a happy, wealthy life. secrets in his search for the woman, a whistleblower —Recommended by Haley and major contributor to his latest case.

—Recommended by Jean

Hartsuyker, Linnea Ma, Ling The Half-Drowned King Severance (Dystopian Fiction) (Historical Fantasy, Book #1) A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog Betrayed by his usurping stepfather during his return about a decimated Manhattan before joining a trip to his ancestral lands, a young warrior resolves motley group of survivors to search for a place to to exact revenge and claim the woman he loves at rebuild, a goal that is complicated by an the side of a strong Norse fighter rumored to be a unscrupulous group leader. prophesied king. —Recommended by Sierra —Recommended by Vanessa

Machado, Maria Carmen Her Body and Other Parties (Horror Stories) Hayes-McCoy, Felicity The author blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders Summer at the Garden Café (Contemporary Fiction) between psychological realism and science fiction, A mother and daughter try to manage their love lives, comedy and horror, in this collection of tales. complicated family situation and secrets in the —Recommended by Lindsay second novel of the series following The Library at the Edge of the World. —Recommended by Sonia

Mafi, Tahereh Hepworth, Sally A Very Large Expanse of Sea The Family Next Door (Contemporary Fiction) (Young Adult Contemporary) When Isabelle, a single woman, rents the house next A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has com- door to Essie and the two forge a friendship, Essie's pletely withdrawn from social life, until she meets friends have questions about the woman who moved Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to to the neighborhood for a secret purpose. actually let her guard down. —Recommended by Jane —Recommended by Jean

16 25 Laureano, Carla Herron, Mark The Saturday Night Supper Club (Inspirational) London Rules (Mystery) After an essay he writes results in chef Rachel As the country is rocked by a string of terror attacks, Bishop's firing, a repentant Alex Kanin partners with MI5 First Desk Whelan navigates political rivals, Rachel to host an exclusive pop-up dinner party that negative press, and hostile adversaries, while over they hope will restore her career. at Slough House, the outcast spies take action —Recommended by Erica when someone tries to kill their colleague. —Recommended by Andrea

Lawhon, Ariel I Was Anastasia (Historical Fiction) Hoang, Helen A dual narrative exploring the mystery surrounding The Kiss Quotient (Romance) the death of Anastasia Romanov and the claims of When mathematician Stella Lane decides to Anna Anderson, the woman long-believed to be the improve her love life, she hires Michael Phan, an young Grand Duchess' most famous imposter. escort, to help her gain knowledge and experience —Recommended by Vanessa in dating. —Recommended by Erica

Leno, Katrina Summer of Salt (Young Adult Fantasy) Horowitz, Anthony Fearing that the gift of magic all the women in her Forever and a Day: A James Bond Novel family have possessed will pass her by, (Espionage) Georgina embarks on a stormy last summer on the An explosive prequel to Casino Royale follows the island of her youth, where a mystery surrounding a mysterious demise of Agent 007 in the French rare 300-year-old bird imparts lessons about the true Riviera underworld and the emergence of a new nature of magic. agent, James Bond. —Recommended by Ann —Recommended by Andrea

Lippman, Laura Sunburn (Mystery) Horowitz, Anthony After meeting at a local tavern in Belleville, The Word Is Murder (Mystery) Delaware, Polly and Adam have an affair, but when When a wealthy woman is found murdered after someone dies the two are so ensnared in each planning her own funeral service, disgraced police other's lives and lies that neither can escape. detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author —Recommended by Jean Anthony Horowitz, investigate. —Recommended by Jean, Andrea, Haley, Becky, Jenn, Melissa, Ellen J. and Jo

24 17 Howarth, Paul Kleypas, Lisa Only Killers and Thieves (Historical Fiction) Hello, Stranger (Historical Romance) Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal Garrett Gibson, England's only female physician, and realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power Ethan Ransom, a former Scotland Yard detective, after a tragedy shatters their family on the untamed share a one-night stand before becoming embroiled frontier of 1880s Australia. in a dangerous mission that is complicated by their —Recommended by Becky feelings for one another. —Recommended by Erica

Howe, K.J. Koryta, Michael The Freedom Broker (Suspense) How It Happened (Mystery) Kidnap-and-rescue negotiator Thea Paris' worst After a troubled teen admits to her involvement in a nightmare comes true when her father is kidnapped brutal murder, Rob Barrett, an FBI investigator and and the only way to rescue him may involve an interrogator, stakes his reputation on her confession unthinkable sacrifice. only to have the information she provided prove —Recommended by Erica false. —Recommended by Becky

Hua, Vanessa Kushner, Rachel A River of Stars (Thriller) The Mars Room (Contemporary Fiction) Betrayed by the boss who is also the father of her At the beginning of her two life sentences in Stanville unborn child, an undocumented Chinese factory Women's Correctional Facility, Romy Hall reflects on worker is forced to flee and reinvent herself in San her youth and her relationship with her son while Francisco's Chinatown in the desperate hopes of navigating the harsh realities of prison life. securing American citizenship for her baby. —Recommended by Becky —Recommended by Andrea

Laukkanen, Owen Iweala, Uzodinma Gale Force (Thriller) Speak No Evil (Literary Fiction) After witnessing her father's death in a maritime An athlete from a private school in Washington, D.C., accident and becoming the captain of a salvage and his friend, the daughter of government insiders, boat, McKenna and her crew take a job helping a struggle with the responses to the young man's freighter only to discover that it contains cargo that is sexual orientation before finding themselves being targeted by enemies. speeding toward a violent future. —Recommended by Andrea —Recommended by Becky and Ellen J.

18 23 King, Stephen Jacobs, Nova Elevation (Paranormal Fiction) The Last Equation of Isaac Severy (Mystery) A timely, upbeat tale about the power of finding Receiving a cryptic letter from her famous common ground traces the story of a man whose mathematician grandfather just before his suicide, mysterious affliction unites a small community. Hazel, the owner of a struggling bookstore in Seattle, —Recommended by Mark is charged with tracking down and protecting a dangerous equation before enemies from a secretive organization can exploit it. —Recommended by Andrea and Erica

King, Stephen James, Lauren The Outsider (Thriller) The Loneliest Girl in the Universe When a young boy's body is found in the town park, (Young Adult Science Fiction) Detective Ralph Anderson finds the evidence and The tragic deaths of her astronaut parents strand the witnesses all pointing to one of the city's most Romy on a spaceship speeding away from Earth, popular citizens. forcing her to endure a solitary existence before she —Recommended by Ellen J., Mark and Dave makes contact with the captain of another ship who harbors a mysterious agenda. —Recommended by Melissa

Kingsolver, Barbara Jewell, Lisa Unsheltered (Literary Fiction) Then She Was Gone (Thriller) A woman whose efforts to protect her family from Struggling to put her life back together a decade after sudden unemployment are shaped by the story of her beloved teen daughter's disappearance, a an ostracized nineteenth-century science teacher divorced woman bonds with a charming single father connected to her by their home in the community of whose young child eerily resembles the woman's Vineland, New Jersey. own lost daughter. —Recommended by Jo and Erica —Recommended by Jean and Haley

Kisner, Adrienne Jones, Tayari Dear Rachel Maddow An American Marriage (Contemporary Fiction) (Young Adult Contemporary Fiction) When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned A teen slogging through remedial courses at school in for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising the wake of her sibling's death, a breakup with her artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to first girlfriend and her parents' dysfunctions writes encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her unsent e-mails to her favorite news anchor before life when her husband's sentence is suddenly becoming involved in a moral and political dilemma overturned. involving an honor student's controversial opinions. —Recommended by Jo, Andrea, Ellen J., Jean, —Recommended by Ellen J. Jenn, Erica and Lindsay

22 19 Joyce, Rachel Khan, Ausma Zehanat The Music Shop (Romance) A Dangerous Crossing The owner of a 1988 music shop in a rundown (Mystery, Rachel Getty/Esa Khattak #4) community uses his talent for connecting customers Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty travel to the music they seek and resists a chance at an through Europe in search of a woman who has gone intimate relationship with a beautiful young woman missing while working with Syrian refugees and is who hides a mysterious agenda. implicated in a double murder. —Recommended by Jo —Recommended by Jo

Kang, Lydia A Beautiful Poison (Historical Mystery) Kidd, Jess Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered Mr. Flood’s Last Resort (Suspense) streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza A lonely caregiver and a cranky hoarder tackle ripples through the city. But with so many victims in notions of forgiveness, independence, sainthood, her close circle, young socialite Allene questions if duty, and connections before dark family secrets are the flu is really to blame. brought to light, revealing the sinister fate of a —Recommended by Vanessa missing local schoolgirl. —Recommended by Erica

Kaufman, Amie and Kristoff, Jay King, Laurie R. Obsidio (Young Adult Science Fiction, Island of the Mad (Historical Mystery, Mary Russell/ #3 Illuminae Files) Sherlock Holmes #11) The conclusion to a trilogy finds Kady, Ezra, Hanna Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the and Nik reluctantly returning to war-torn Kerenza, slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as and Kady's cousin, Asha, reconnects with former they investigate a disappearance. flame Rhys while supporting the underground —Recommended by Jenny B. and Erica resistance. —Recommended by Erica

King, Maggie Shen Keller, Julia An Excess Male (Science Fiction) Bone on Bone (Mystery, Bell Elkins #7) Finally saving up enough money for a matchmaking Returning home after serving a three-year prison dowry, a young, single man in China, one of 40 sentence, Bell Elkins teams up with paraplegic Jake million who can’t find wives because there aren’t Oakes and the new prosecutor Rhonda Lovejoy to enough women, finds himself deeply connecting investigate the suspicious deaths of a drug addict's with a woman who already has two husbands. parents. —Recommended by Heather and Erica —Recommended by Jo

20 21 Joyce, Rachel Khan, Ausma Zehanat The Music Shop (Romance) A Dangerous Crossing The owner of a 1988 music shop in a rundown (Mystery, Rachel Getty/Esa Khattak #4) community uses his talent for connecting customers Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty travel to the music they seek and resists a chance at an through Europe in search of a woman who has gone intimate relationship with a beautiful young woman missing while working with Syrian refugees and is who hides a mysterious agenda. implicated in a double murder. —Recommended by Jo —Recommended by Jo

20 21 King, Stephen Jacobs, Nova Elevation (Paranormal Fiction) The Last Equation of Isaac Severy (Mystery) A timely, upbeat tale about the power of finding Receiving a cryptic letter from her famous common ground traces the story of a man whose mathematician grandfather just before his suicide, mysterious affliction unites a small community. Hazel, the owner of a struggling bookstore in Seattle, —Recommended by Mark is charged with tracking down and protecting a dangerous equation before enemies from a secretive organization can exploit it. —Recommended by Andrea and Erica

22 19 Howarth, Paul Kleypas, Lisa Only Killers and Thieves (Historical Fiction) Hello, Stranger (Historical Romance) Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal Garrett Gibson, England's only female physician, and realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power Ethan Ransom, a former Scotland Yard detective, after a tragedy shatters their family on the untamed share a one-night stand before becoming embroiled frontier of 1880s Australia. in a dangerous mission that is complicated by their —Recommended by Becky feelings for one another. —Recommended by Erica

18 23 Laureano, Carla Herron, Mark The Saturday Night Supper Club (Inspirational) London Rules (Mystery) After an essay he writes results in chef Rachel As the country is rocked by a string of terror attacks, Bishop's firing, a repentant Alex Kanin partners with MI5 First Desk Whelan navigates political rivals, Rachel to host an exclusive pop-up dinner party that negative press, and hostile adversaries, while over they hope will restore her career. at Slough House, the outcast spies take action —Recommended by Erica when someone tries to kill their colleague. —Recommended by Andrea

24 17 Harper, Jane Lockhart, E. Force of Nature (Mystery, Aaron Falk #2) Genuine Fraud (Young Adult Suspense) When one member of a five-woman team of Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and co-workers goes missing during a corporate retreat, Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost federal police agent Aaron Falk uncovers dark anything to attain a happy, wealthy life. secrets in his search for the woman, a whistleblower —Recommended by Haley and major contributor to his latest case.

—Recommended by Jean

16 25 Makkai, Rebecca Halpern, Sue The Great Believers (Literary Fiction) Summer Hours at the Robbers Library A novel set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary (Contemporary Fiction) Paris follows the director of a Chicago art gallery A head librarian trying to forget the painful realities and a woman looking for her estranged daughter in of her suburban past unexpectedly bonds with a Paris who both struggle to come to terms with the teenager performing community service, a ways AIDS has affected their lives. disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer and other —Recommended by Jo and Jane offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self- imposed isolation. —Recommended by Sonia, Jean, Jo, Erica, Andrea and Jane Malerman, Josh Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas (Horror) The author of Bird Box and Black Mad Hamilton, Steve Wheel presents a novel in six novellas. Fans of Dead Man Running (Mystery, Alex McKnight #11) creepy, eerie, and genuinely unsettling horror will In a hunt that will take him across the country and to devour this set of vignettes about the aptly named the edge of his limits, Alex McKnight fights to stop a town of Goblin, Mich. vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate —Recommended by Mark revenge. —Recommended by Jane

26 15 Giordano, Mario Maxwell, Alyssa Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Suspense) A Devious Death Retiring to Sicily in the hopes of spending her final (Historical Mystery, Lady and Lady’s Maid, #3) years enjoying the ocean view, the wine and the Hoping to spend a relaxing summer at the new company of friends, 60-year-old Auntie Poldi estate of their cousin, Phoebe and her sister, Julia, discovers that her new home is not as tranquil as witness a family dispute about an unequal anticipated when her handsome young handyman is inheritance before turning their suspicions on a new found murdered. lady's maid in the wake of an untimely death. —Recommended by Andrea —Recommended by Susie

14 27 McIntyre, Angus French, Tana The Warrior Within (Science Fiction) The Witch Elm (Suspense) Karsman has a dozen different people living in his Left for dead by burglars after partying with friends, head, each the master of a different set of skills and a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his hoping to gain mastery of Karsman's body. He dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly survives on a backwater planet where devotion and discovery reveals an unsuspected family history. prayer can be traded for subsistence wages and —Recommended by Ellen J. and Jenn enough food to survive. —Recommended by Vanessa

28 13 Finn, A.J. Morris, Heather The Woman in the Window (Thriller) The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Historical Fiction) An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York A novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz- City home, drinking wine and spying on her Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration- her window that exposes her secrets and raises camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners. questions about her perceptions of reality. —Recommended by Sonia —Recommended by Haley and Jean

12 29 Moyes, Jojo El Akid, Omar Still Me (Contemporary Fiction) American War (Science Fiction) Louisa Clark arrives in New York to start a new life A second American Civil War and devastating and a long-distance relationship with Ambulance plague in the late 21st century forces a family into a Sam while working for the super-wealthy Gopniks, a camp for displaced people, where a young woman job that introduces her to New York high society and is befriended by a mysterious functionary who a secretive man who reminds her of her own past. transforms her into a living weapon. Sequel to After You. —Recommended by Dave —Recommended by Jane

30 11 De Los Santos, Marisa Novik, Naomi I’ll Be Your Blue Sky (Contemporary Fiction) Spinning Silver (Fantasy) Three weeks after an elderly neighbor helps her find Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed the courage to end an unhealthy relationship, Clare her family of moneylenders, a young woman is unexpectedly inherits a small house from the woman overheard boasting about being able to turn silver and with the help of loved ones pieces together the into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in a story of the house and her courageous benefactor. reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story. —Recommended by Jane —Recommended by Jo, Lindsay, Emily and Andrea

10 31 Orange, Tommy Cole, Alyssa There There (Contemporary Fiction) A Princess in Theory (Romance) A novel that grapples with the complex history and Mistaken by his betrothed as a pauper instead of a identity of Native Americans follows twelve prince, Prince Thabiso, the sole heir to the throne of characters, each of whom has private reasons for Thesolo, decides to keep his real identity a secret traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. as he experiences life and love with Naledi Smith. —Recommended by Andrea and Ellen J. —Recommended by Andrea, Erica and Jocelyn

32 9 Cavanagh, Steve Pelecanos, George The Plea (Thriller, Eddie Flynn #2) The Man Who Came Uptown (Suspense) Pressured by the FBI to secure a murder suspect's Unexpectedly released from jail, Michael Hudson testimony against a corrupt law firm, con artist- confronts profound changes in his Washington, D.C. turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn begins to believe the home while struggling between loyalties to the suspect is innocent in spite of overwhelming person responsible for his freedom and the prison evidence to the contrary. librarian who helped him develop a love of reading. —Recommended by Becky —Recommended by Jo and Becky

8 33 Rader-Day, Lori Cannon, Joanna Under a Dark Sky (Suspense) Three Things about Elsie (Suspense) A grieving widow tackles her phobias during a A nursing home resident who has fallen in her week-long stay at a dark-sky park, where a college apartment thinks about her childhood friend, Elsie, reunion is marred by murder. This twist on a locked- and the secrets of their past that are about to come room mystery keeps readers guessing until the last to light when a man they believed was dead joins page. her retirement community. —Recommended by Jo —Recommended by Andrea and Jo

—Recommended by Joe Carroll, James The Cloister (Historical Fiction) A priest and a Holocaust survivor find their Sager, Riley perspectives and senses of identity reshaped by The Last Time I Lied (Thriller) their shared investigation into the classic romance When Emma Davis, a rising star in the New York art between discredited religious scholar Peter Abelard scene, returns to teach painting at the summer and his intellectual paramour, Héloïse. camp she attended, she uses the opportunity to look —Recommended by Ellen J. into the disappearance of her friends fifteen years earlier. —Recommended by Mark Casale, Jana The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky (Contemporary Fiction) Sarvas, Mark A college student's procrastination over reading a Memento Park (Literary Fiction) Noam Chomsky novel becomes a metaphor When Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting throughout subsequent decades of milestones that believed to have been looted from his family in reflect the disparity between the carefully planned World War II, he must reconnect with his father, his life she wants and the person she is really meant to family history, and his own Judaism in order to be. recover the mysterious work. —Recommended by Susie —Recommended by Debbie 34 7 Brennan, Sarah Rees Saunders, George In Other Lands (Young Adult Fantasy) Fox 8: A Story (Fable) Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people Idealistic Fox 8's ability to communicate in "Yuman" (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human cannot save his pack when their den and food supply transported to a fantasy world where he attends a are destroyed to build a mall, so he writes a letter school for warriors and diplomatic advisers, finds asking for an explanation of human's cruelty. that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, —Recommended by Andrea, Nate, Jo and Jean may actually be possible. —Recommended by Heather

—Recommended by Jenn

6 35 Silvera, Adam Blum, Yoay They Both Die at the End The Coincidence Makers (Suspense) (Young Adult Science Fiction) Working for a secret group that orchestrates Receiving word from Death-Cast that they are about coincidental occurrences to spark significant to die, Mateo and Rufus meet for the first time via an changes in the lives of their targets, Guy receives End Day friendship app that facilitates their meeting an assignment with the capacity to profoundly and a final grand adventure that triggers unexpected change lives and teach the true nature of fate, free changes. will, and love. —Recommended by Heather —Recommended by Erica

36 5 Bayard, Tania St. James, Simone In the Presence of Evil (Historical Mystery) The Broken Girls (Thriller) Paris, 1393. Scribe Christine de Pizan dreads going More than sixty years after one of four friends in a to the palace to work, where people believe the mad reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, king can be cured with magic. But when a journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her mysterious book of spells leaves a trail of real sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made. murdered bodies in its wake, Christine has more —Recommended by Jenn than black magic to worry about. —Recommended by Susie

Turton, Stuart

—Recommended by Jo

4 37 Tyler, Anne Albert, Melissa Clock Dance (Contemporary Fiction) The Hazel Wood (Young Adult Fantasy) After receiving a call from a stranger about her son's When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's ex-girlfriend being injured, Willa flies across the book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, country to Baltimore to take care of her and her 17-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed 9-year-old daughter. fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue —Recommended by Jo and Jane Alice's kidnapped mother. —Recommended by Lindsay, Erica, Jenn, Mark

and Jo

38 3 Abbott, Megan Walker, Nico Give Me Your Hand (Thriller) Cherry (Contemporary Fiction) A decade after distancing herself from a high school Rashly marrying his college girlfriend to keep their friend, Kit Owens finds herself competing for a relationship active during his tour of duty, a college coveted research position against her former friend, dropout-turned-army soldier is overwhelmed by the a competition that threatens to destroy them both. realities of war, PTSD, and opioid addiction before —Recommended by Emily forging a desperate plan. —Recommended by Jenn

2 39 Winman, Sarah Tin Man (Contemporary Fiction) A heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms gradually reveals a fallout between two longtime friends and Oxford students over the course of a decade marked by the marriage of one and the disappearance of the other. —Recommended by Ellen J.