Gab Bag Titles January 2020

Fiction About Betty’s Boob – Vero Cazet and The History of Wolves – Emily Fridlund Juliet Rochelieu* Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi The After Party – Anton DiSclafani The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Age of Desire – Jennie Fields Jamie Ford Ali and Nino – Kurban Said The Hundred-Foot Journey – Robert Morais The Alice Network – Kate Quinn The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty All the Time in the World – Caroline Angell* In the Kingdom of Men – Kim Barnes The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion – Into the Beautiful North – Luis Alberto Urrea Fannie Flagg The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd Annie Dunne – Sebastian Barry The Japanese Lover – Isabel Allende The Arsonist – Sue Miller Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry The Art of Confidence – Wendy Lee Last One Home – Debbie Macomber Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein The Leavers – Lisa Ko Astonish Me – Maggie Shipstead The Lifeboat – Charlotte Rogan The Awakening - Kate Chopin* The Light Between Oceans – M.L. Stedman Beekeeper's Apprentice – Laurie R. King Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk – Kathleen Rooney Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders The Book Thief – Markus Zusak Little Deaths – Emma Flint Brat Farrar – Josephine Tey* Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway Garcia Marquez City of Thieves – David Benioff Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein* A Man Called Ove – Fredrick Backman The Confidant – Helene Gremillon Me Before You – Jojo Moyes Crooked Heart – Lissa Evans The Middlesteins – Jami Attenberg Crossing Purgatory – Gary Schanbacher Miss Jane – Brad Watson The Curiosity – Stephen Kiernan Mudbound – Hilary Jordan Dear Life – Alice Munro My Antonia – Willa Cather Death at La Fenice – Donna Leon* A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly The Dinner – Herman Koch Old Filth – Jane Gardam The Dog Stars – Peter Heller Old Herbaceous – Reginald Arkett* Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout Honeyman Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery Our Souls at Night – Kent Haruf Euphoria – Lily King Pachinko – MinJin Lee Faith – Jennifer Haigh A Paris Apartment – Michelle Gable Faithful – Alice Hoffman Passing – Nella Larsen Family Life – Akhil Sharma The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma – Ratika Kapur A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway* Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver Forsaken – Ross Howell, Jr. The Reivers – William Faulkner The Gardens of Consolation – Parisa Reza The Rent Collector – Camron Steve Wright A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles The Reservoir – John Milliken Thompson Gilead – Marilynne Robinson* The Second Mrs. Hockaday – Susan Rivers A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult* Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson Mary Ann Shaffer Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood* Someone – Alice McDermott The Heart Mender – Andy Andrews State of Wonder – Ann Patchett Hearts of Horses – Molly Gloss The Submission – Amy Waldman The Hideaway – Lauren K. Denton* Sutton – J.R. Moehringer There There – Tommy Orange* The Johnstown Flood – David McCullough Touch – Courtney Maum* Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith The Lost King of France – Deborah Cadbury True Memoirs of Little K – Adrienne Sharp Love and Hate in Jamestown – David Price The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards – Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham* Kristopher Jansma Monuments Men – Robert M. Edsel The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett Sex Lives of Cannibals – Maarten Troost The Uninvited Guests – Sadie Jones Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson Varina – Charles Frazier Thunderstruck – Erik Larson A Very Long Engagement – Sebastien Japrisot Twilight of Empire – Greg King and Penny Wilson The Viscount’s Daughter – Phyllis Haislip Waiting – Ha Jin New titles are added on a regular basis; please Welcome to the World, Baby Girl – Fanny Flagg check with the Reference Desk, search the catalog, The Welsh Girl – Peter Ho Davies or visit www.wrl.org/gabbags When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro *new titles / coming soon February 2020 The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga The Widow’s War – Sally Gunning The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress – Ariel Lawson The Wreath – Sigrid Undset The Year of the Comet – Sergei Lebedev Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks

Current Events Being Mortal – Atul Gawande Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich Nothing to Envy – Barbara Demick Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat – Hal Herzog

Biography/Autobiography Bettyville – George Hodgman Call the Midwife – Jennifer Worth Crashing Through – Robert Kurson Garlic and Sapphires – Ruth Reichl The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls Grandma Gatewood’s Walk – Ben Montgomery The Judgment of Paris – Ross King* Spy Pilot – Francis Gary Powers, Jr.* Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson West With the Night – Beryl Markham

History Alone on the Ice – David Roberts* Beautiful Swimmers – William W. Warner The Boys in the Boat – Daniel Brown (2 Bags) Devil in the White City – Erik Larson Empire of the Summer Moon – S.C. Gwynne Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly In the Kingdom of Ice – Hampton Sides