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Brashares, Ann The Whole Thing Together Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author. Love, class differences, and betrayal play out over the course of a fractured American family's Long Island summer.
Bratt, Kay Wish Me Home Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A hungry, stray dog is the last thing Cara Butter needs. Stranded in Georgia with only her backpack and a few dwindling dollars, she already has too much baggage. Like her twin sister, Hana, who has broken Cara's heart one too many times. After a lifetime of family troubles, and bouncing from one foster home to another, Cara decides to leave it all behind and strike out alone--on foot.
Brautigan, Richard Trout Fishing In America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Collected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s. Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through the country's rural waterways.
Britton, Fern The Newcomer Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When Angela arrives in the close-knit Cornish village of Pendruggan, she makes a big splash - and she soon raises the ire of an anonymous local.
Brooke, C.K. As Told by Isolde Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Free Kindle book. Mythic Maidens Book 5. At age eighteen, Isolde of Ayrland is expected to master the healing arts and uphold her mother's legacy as a healer, but she's nowhere near ready for the undertaking. Though her mother's always urging her to "trust herself," Isolde doesn't know the first thing about herself worth trusting.
Brooks, Geraldine Year of Wonders Fiction Suffering in English village in 1666 during the plague, but leaves one feeling hopeful, consoled, and inspired.
Brooks, Gwendolyn Maud Martha Fiction Essential look at urban black life, with all its beauty and pain. Set in Chicago.
Browning, James The Fracking King Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. A striking debut novel about boarding school, hardcore Scrabble, and fracking--a new kind of environmental novel by an important voice in the debate about fracking in America.
Bryndza, Robert The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. Very 'Bridget Jones' but less stuffy and more 'Sex and the City' meets crazy family.
Buchan, Elizabeth Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman Fiction Rose's husband leaves, but she gets her just-deserts.
Buck, Pearl S. The Mother Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Illuminates the struggles of a mother in pre-revolution China. Abandoned by her husband, she must rely on her own ingenuity to save her family in this remarkable tale.
Bukowski, Charles Ham On Rye Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Hailed as a celebrated 20th-century American writer's best work, this raw coming-of-age story paints a complex and often troubling portrait of an outcast growing up in the midst of the Great Depression.
Bump, Gabriel Everywhere You Don't Belong Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Claude is a black nerd from Chicago's South Side. Raised by his grandmother and her gay best friend, he grows up amid police shootings and bloody riots. Bump's first book manages to be both crazy funny, and deadly serious.
Burke, James Lee Heartwood Fiction Stellar Lone Star Saga.
Burns, Olive Ann Cold Sassy Tree Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A classic coming-of-age story hailed as one of the best portraits of small-town Southern life ever written (Pat Conroy). After Will Tweedy's grandmother dies, his grandfather's elopement with Miss Love Simpson rocks the town of Cold Sassy Georgia. Rich with emotion, humor, and tenderness.
Butler, Halle The New Me Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
NPR Best Book of 2019. 30-year-old Millie struggles to escape from a life defined by her meaningless job. Laugh, cry, feel completely reborn.
Butler, Nickolas Shotgun Lovesongs Fiction Suggested By: Other.
BooksAndBars for Mar 2014, but I did not read it. Debut novel follows thirty-somethings Henry, Lee, Kip, Ronny, and Beth, high school friends from small-town Wisconsin, sparkles in every way.
Buxbaum, Julie Tell Me Three Things Fiction Suggested By: Suggested List.
Girl-next-door suddenly finds herself in an elite CA prep school and has to figure out how to navigate this privileged world while still grieving her mother's death.
Cacoyannis, Panayotis Polk, Harper & Who Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. After ten years together, including some difficult times, Adam and Eva are still as in love as they were when they told each other every day that they loved each other every day more.
Cadwalladr, Carole The Family Tree Fiction Loving, spot-on portrait of a late-1970s childhood. Multi-generational British saga.
Cain, George Blueschild Baby Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A classic hailed at publication as, "the most important work of fiction by an Afro-American since Native Son (the NYT). Vivid semi-autobiographical tale about a young man full of promise who falls into the grip of addition before returning home to Harlem.
Caldwell, Erskine Various - Three Novels Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933) won him critical acclaim, but his advocacy of eugenics and the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites became less popular following World War II.
  1. Tobacco Road (1932) Available as library eBook
  2. God's Little Acre (1933) Available as library eBook
  3. Place Called Estherville (1949)
Caletti, Deb He's Gone Fiction Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen.
Callanan, Liam Paris by the Book Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris. Hoping to uncover clues--and her husband--Leah sets off for France with her girls. Upon their arrival, she discovers an unfinished manuscript, one Robert had been writing without her knowledge . . . and that he had set in Paris. The Eady girls follow the path of the manuscript to a small, floundering English-language bookstore whose weary proprietor is eager to sell. Leah finds herself accepting the offer on the spot.
Campbell, Bebe Moore What You Owe Me Fiction Women start a cosmetics company and get rich, then betrayal.
Campbell, Bonnie Jo Once Upon a River Fiction Margo Crane, a young woman who lives near a river in a rural area of Michigan in the 1970's. But Margo, who is about 15 when the story begins, is no ordinary teenager. She can shoot, hunt, skin an animal, and does not appear to be afraid of much. Margo will need these skills when she finds herself forced to assert her independence earlier than most teenagers do. SEQUEL: "Q Road".
Capote, Truman The Grass harp Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When an orphaned boy and two old women decide to live in a treehouse, they learn about the burden and pleasures of freedom and love.
Carbuncle, Lance Grundish and Askew Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. Strap on your athletic cup and grab a barf bag. The Dr. Reverend Lance Carbuncle is going to kick you square in the balls and send you on a wild ride that may or may not answer the following questions: what happens when two white trash, trailer park-dwelling, platonic life partners go on a moronic and misdirected crime spree?
Carter, Betsy The Orange Blossom Special Fiction 1958. Florida. Tender yet wickedly funny novel about people hoping for - and getting - second chances.
Cartwright, Justin The Promise of Happiness Fiction Archly funny novel about the vagaries of one quirky British family. Read it and you might find joy sneaking up on you.
Carty-Williams, Candice Queenie Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
NPR Best Book of 2019. A young journalist grapples with work, love, and identity in London. A modern day Bridget Jones's Diary.
Cash, Wiley A Land More Kind Than Home Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A classic Southern novel, this New York Times bestseller is "lyrical, beautiful, and uncomplicated" (Library Journal). Jess and his mute brother confront chilling cruelty in their small North Carolina town -- and tap into unexpected courage.
Cassella, Carol Oxygen Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When anesthesiologist Marie makes a mistake in the operating room, she struggles with the fallout - including a malpractice suit. As her career and family fall apart, she confronts life's most difficult questions in a tour de force that will stay with you long after the book is closed.
Castellani, Christopher The Saint of Lost Things Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A moving evocation of the Italian-American experience, told with grace, compassion, and uncompromising honesty. It's 1953 in the tight-knit Italian neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. Maddalena Grasso has lost her country, her family, and the man she...
Catton, Eleanor The Luminaries Fiction Epic yarn about a motley crew of 12 men and their attempts to solve a series of local mysteries.
Chabon, Michael The Yiddish Policemen's Union Fiction Well, I haven't liked anything of his yet and Stephen King recommends it. But it takes place in Alaska, and a good AK book would be good.
Chandra, Vikram Sacred Games Fiction A very long book [900 pages] can make you resentful of hte presumptuous writer who expects you to spend large chunks of time on his bloat [hear hear]. This is a ravishing, over-exuberant stab at the Great Indian Novel, an extraordinary work of fiction that will reward you in full for your investment of time, though not without occasionally testing your patience.
Chang, Jade The Wangs Vs the World Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
Wacky road trip novel. The Wang family embark on a cross-country journey after the 2008 stock market crash.
Cheever, John Falconer Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
"Cheever's triumph...A great American novel" (Newsweek). The stunning story of Farragut, whose life is upended when he's accused of murdering his brother. "One of the most important novels of our time (The New York Times).
Cheever, John The Wapshot Chronicle Fiction The novel follows the destinies of the impecunious and wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs, a quintessential Massachusetts fishing village. Tragic and funny.
Chen, Kirstin Soy Sauce for Beginners Fiction Suggested By: Other.
$2.14 Kindle book. Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her childhood home in Singapore and immediately finds herself face-to-face with the twin headaches she's avoided her entire adult life: her mother's drinking problem and the machinations of her father's artisanal soy sauce business.
Cherian, Anne A Good Indian Wife Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Handsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family's pleas that he marry a "good" Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marriage. But that's precisely what he gets. His bride, Leila, a thirty-year-old teacher, comes with her own complications. They struggle to reconcile their own desires with others' expectations in this story of two people, two countries, and two ways of life that may be more compatible than they seem.
Clark, Imogen Postcards from a Stranger Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When Cara finds a collection of old postcards in the attic, their contents reveal unsettling secrets about her family's past. And as she embarks on a desperate search for answers, she uncovers a web of deceit more tangled than she could've ever imagined. A captivating page-turner.
Cleave, Chris Little Bee Fiction Suggested By: Other.
$2.14 Kindle book. The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide.
Cleaver, Bill and Vera Where the Lilies Bloom Fiction Suggested By: Movie/TV.
Mary Call has promised her dying father to keep her brother and sisters together forever on the mountain, and never to take any help from strangers. She is determined to keep her word. No matter what. At first she is sure she can manage. Romey, Ima Dean, and Devola help gather herbs to sell in town; the riches of the mountains will surely keep the family clothed and fed. But then winter comes, fast and furious, and Mary Call has to learn that the land where the lilies bloom is also a cruel and unforgiving place, and it may take more than a promise to keep her family together.
Cline, Rachel What to Keep Fiction Delves into familial and romantic minefields with compassion and humor.
Coe, Jonathan The Closed Circle Fiction It's essential to read "The Rotters' Club" before reading this book!! Together, the two novels follow a group of friends raised in the factory town of Birmingham, England. Coe is an expert plotter who examines individual personalities in depth.
Cohen, Jon The Man in the Window Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.00 Kindle book. Suggested by Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries.
Coleman, Rowan We Are All Made of Stars Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Recommended for fans of Jojo Moyes. Hospice nurse Stella gives solace to her dying patients by helping them write letters to their loved ones -- but one woman's story will turn her world upside down.
Colwin, Laurie A Big Storm Knocked It Over Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A warm and witty story full of perfect moments. In Manhattan, Jane Louise grapples with the ups and downs of marriage, motherhood, and friendship. Will stand as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction's most original voices.
Comfort, Jen The Astronaut and the Star Fiction Suggested By: Amazon.com.
Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. Astronaut Regina "Reggie" Hayes wants to be the first woman on the moon--it's all she's ever dreamed of. But after a PR disaster, Reggie is off the list for a lunar mission. To rehabilitate her reputation with NASA, she agrees to a different kind of assignment: astronaut "training" with a Hollywood action hero.
Conklin, Tara The House Girl Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an appropriate lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking compensation for families of slaves. In her research, she learns about Lu Anne Bell, a renowned prewar artist whose famous works might have actually been painted by her slave, Josephine.
Connell, Evan S. Mrs. Bridge Fiction Though her life is increasingly filled with leisure and plenty, she can't shuffle off vague feelings of dissatisfaction, confusion, and futility.
Conroy, Pat Beach Music Fiction Suggested By: Author.
A Southerner living abroad, Jack McCall is scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife's suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family's past that can heal his anguished heart. Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the Holocaust to the lingering trauma of Vietnam, Beach Music sings with life's pain and glory. It is a novel of lyric intensity and searing truth, another masterpiece among Pat Conroy's legendary and beloved novels.
Conroy, Pat The Great Santini Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$4.29 Kindle book (along with The Lords of Discipline and The Prince of Tides).
Conroy, Pat The Lords of Discipline Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.24 Kindle book.
Conroy, Pat The Prince of Tides Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.14 Kindle book. Tom Wingo has lost his job, and is on the verge of losing his marriage, when he learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has attempted suicide again. At the behest of Savannah's psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein, Tom reluctantly leaves his home in South Carolina to travel to New York City and aid in his sister's therapy.
Corman, Avery The Old Neighborhood Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
From the author of Kramer vs. Kramer. Steven rose from humble beginnings in the 1940s Bronx to wild success on Madison Avenue. But after years away, a trip to his old neighborhood transports him to a simpler time. A charming story.
Cornwell, Bernard Excalibur Fiction Good version of the same old story.
Cornwell, Patricia Quantum Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
First book in a series featuring a brilliant and unusual new heroine, cutting-edge cybertechnology (be interesting to see how well "cutting edge" holds up over time!), and stakes that are astronomically high. On the eve of a top secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase detects a tripped alarm in the tunnels deep below a NASA research center. A NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator, Calli knows that a looming blizzard and government shutdown could provide the perfect cover for sabotage, with deadly consequences.
Correa, Armando Lucas The Daughter's Tale Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When 80-year-old Elise Duval receives letters written by her mother during World War II, she must grapple with the devastating truth of her family's history. Based on true events, gripping and richly detailed.
Cosimano, Elle Finlay Donovan is Killing It Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Actually, she's barely holding on. Her book's months overdue, her ex wants the kids, and the electricity has been cut off. Mistaken for a hit man during an overheard meeting with her agent - after which a man ends up dead - Finn juggles deadlines, a hot detective, and the Russian Mob. A twisty delight.
Courlander, Harold The African Fiction Alex Haley "accidentally" lifted parts of this 1967 novel.
Cowan, Lee D. The Little Green Mountain Fire Fiction Donna's Husband. A harrowing tale of bravery set in the Rockies.
Crace, Jim The Pesthouse Fiction The once fertile soil has been poisoned, a "Grand Contagion" has decimated the population, highways and factories lie in ruins, and barbarians on horseback roam the hills of "what used to be America". It's a little too hammy to be thoroughly convincing, but it's a cracking adventure.
Crais, Robert The Sentry Fiction Set off by a sandwich-store shakedown, this is a rip-roaring read and a smart and careful character study.
Crawford, Lacy Early Decision Fiction Novel about kids caught up in the admissions rat race. Wise and completely engrossing. NOTE: apprehensive about whether or not I want to waste time reading FICTION about college admissions.
Crombie, Deborah The Sound of Broken Glass Fiction An intriguing atmospheric London murder set in both the past and the present.
Cronin, Justin The Summer Guest Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Terminally ill rich guy goes to Maine fishing camp. As the story unfolds, secrets are revealed, courage is tested, and the bonds of love are strengthened. And always center stage is the place itself--a magical, forgotten corner of New England where the longings of the human heart are mirrored in the wild beauty of the landscape. Intimate, powerful, and profound, The Summer Guest reveals Justin Cronin as a storyteller of unique and marvelous talent. It is a book to treasure.
Cross-Smith, Leesa This Close to Okay Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers. On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she spots a man precariously standing at the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and...
Crusie, Jennifer Faking It Fiction Romantic romp involving family of art forgers.
Culliton, Emily The Misfortune of Marion Palm Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Available as a library eBook. Fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette will adore the witty story of Marion Palm -- a runaway wife and mother with a big secret! "One of the funniest debut novels I've had the good fortune to read" (Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians).
Dahl, Roald Various - Roald Dahl Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Adult suggestions: Switch Bitch, The Great Automatic Grammatizator, Over to You, Skin, Kiss Kiss.

Kids suggestions: Danny Champion of the World, The BFG, Boy, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Witches.
Dalton, Trent Boy Swallows Universe Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Boy Swallows Universe hypnotized you with wonder, then hammers you with heartbreak. Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, a neglected suburb populated by Polish and Vietnamese refugees, this twelve-year-old boy with an old soul and an adult mind is just trying to follow his heart, learn what it takes to be a good man, and train for a glamorous career in journalism. Life, however, insists on throwing obstacles in Eli's path--most notably Tytus Broz, Brisbane's legendary drug dealer.
Daniel, Susanna Stiltsville Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When 26-year-old Frances visits the beautiful, unpredictable coast of South Florida, she never leaves. This gripping novel follows her life in love, friendship, and motherhood over the next three decades. An elegantly crafted work of and a great read.
Danier, Stephanie Sweetbitter Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
Tess is so green that she's never tasted an oyster or an heirloom tomato - let alone the Sancerre and cocaine that become a near-nightly ritual once the staff welcomes her into the blurred, blazing hours of their post-restaurant-shift lives.
Dave, Laura Hello, Sunshine Fiction Suggested By: Book Award List.
When TV cooking celebrity, Sunshine's, secrets are revealed her fall from grace is catastrophic. She loses the husband, her show, the fans, and her apartment. She's forced to return to the childhood home–and the estranged sister–she's tried hard to forget. But what Sunshine does amid the ashes of her own destruction may well save her life. In a world where celebrity is a careful construct, Hello, Sunshine is a compelling, funny, and evocative novel about what it means to live an authentic life in an inauthentic age.
Davidson, MaryJanice Undead and Unwed Fiction Betsy is a vampire who doesn't burn in sunlight, can fight the urge to feed, and is not repulsed by religious articles, all of which may make her the prophesied Queen of the Vampires.
Davies, Adam Mine All Mine Fiction Laugh-out-loud caper starring a hapless undercover security guard, a sly art thief, and a girl whose heart goes out to both.
Davies, Adam The Frog King Fiction Coming of age novel ala Bright Lights, Big City and High Fidelity.
Davis, Barbara The Keeper of Happy Endings Fiction Suggested By: Amazon.com.
Free Kindle book. An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It's said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline's world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams, determined to forget.
Dawson, Maddie Matchmaking for Beginners Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
$1.07 Kindle book. Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary life--a husband, kids, and a minivan in the suburbs. Now that she's marrying the man of her dreams, she's sure this is the life she'll get. Then Marnie meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé's irascible matchmaking great-aunt who's dying, and everything changes--just as Blix told her it would. When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is understandably shocked. She's even more astonished to find that she's inherited Blix's Brooklyn brownstone along with all of Blix's unfinished "projects": the heartbroken, oddball friends and neighbors running from happiness. Marnie doesn't believe she's anything special, but Blix somehow knew she was the perfect person to follow in her matchmaker footsteps.
Dawson, Maddie The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a family - whether they want to or not. Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She's spent her life looking into strangers' faces, fantasizing they're related to her, and now, at thirty-five, she's ready for answers.
de los Santos, Marisa The Precious One Fiction Suggested By: Other.
$1.07 Kindle book. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. In all her life, Eustacia "Taisy" Cleary has given her heart to only three men: her first love, Ben Ransom; her twin brother, Marcus; and Wilson Cleary--professor, inventor, philanderer, self-made millionaire, brilliant man, breathtaking jerk: her father.
DeFino, Terri-Lynne The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses) Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
At a New England retirement home, a group of famous writers reflect on their lives - and inspire those who care for them.
Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders Fiction LDs favorite book.
Delevingne, Cara Mirror, Mirror Fiction Suggested By: Author.
When one of their friends mysteriously disappears, a group of teens are forced to confront the challenges and secrets of their lives in this edgy and suspenseful coming-of-age tale from international supermodel, actress, and social media darling Cara Delevingne. Among the students of Thames Comprehensive, Red, Leo, Rose, and Naomi are misfits--outsiders who have found a safe haven in music and their band, Mirror, Mirror. For these sixteen year olds, fitting in at school is nearly as difficult as navigating their complicated home lives. Red has an alcoholic mother and a father who's never around. Leo's brother is in prison. Rose uses sex and alcohol to numb the pain of a brutal attack. Naomi's punk rock princess persona gives her the freedom to be her true self.
Delury, Jane The Balcony Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
A grand estate in a village outside Paris is the central character in this entrancing debut novel that spans a century. Each chapter is a short story. The prose is sharp, and the stories are instantly engaging.
DeMarco, Kathleen Cranberry Queen Fiction Suddenly orphaned woman nurses wounds at annual cranberry fest.
Dennis, Patrick Auntie Mame Fiction Suggested By: Unknown.
The delightful New York Times bestseller that inspired a beloved musical. Meet Auntie Mame, the vivacious and dynamic flapper who takes in her orphaned nephew and introduces him to a world of adventure. "Outrageous, hilarious, ribald, sophisticated"
Dermansky, Marcy The Red Car Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Leah heads for San Francisco and a rediscovery of her more joyous self. A dry delightful fairy tale for grown-ups.
Dickey, Eric Jerome Milk in My Coffee Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When Southerner Jordan Greene moves to New York City and falls in love with a white woman, he finds himself rethinking his identity -- while defending himself to his family back home. "Frothy and fun
Dickinson, Miranda Take A Look At Me Now Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
What a difference a day makes…Nell Sullivan has always been known as ‘Miss Five-Year Plan'. But when she finds herself jobless and newly single on the same day, Nell decides it is time to stop planning and start taking chances. Nell blows her redundancy cheque on a trip of lifetime to a place where anything is possible – San Francisco. There she meets a host of colourful characters, including the intriguing and gorgeous Max. Very soon the city begins to feel like Nell's second home. But when it's time to return to London, will she leave the ‘new Nell' behind? And can the magic of San Francisco continue to sparkle thousands of miles away?
Dickinson, Miranda The Day We Meet Again Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Phoebe and Sam are about to head off on their own adventures when they meet at a train station in London - and promise to return to the same place a year later. A spark of true joy.
DiSclafani, Anton The After Party Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Joan has dazzled the well-to-do of 1950s Houston for years. But Joan's unladylike desires have finally caught up with her and now CeCe must choose between her pal and high society.
Dobmeier, Tracy Girls with Bright Futures Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A thriller for the post-college-admission-scandal-age.
Doctorow, E.L. The Book of Daniel Fiction Suggested By: Author.
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life--marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him.
Doctorow, E.L. The March Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Available as a library eBook. Civil war epic. Unforgettable fictional characters drive a smoky, blood-soaked narrative.
Doctorow, E.L. Various - E.L. Doctorow Fiction Suggested By: Author.
These, among others...
  • Welcome to Hard Times (1960 - a western...)
  • The Book of Daniel (1971 - scalding take on the 1950s Rosenberg trial)
  • Ragtime (1975)
  • Billy Bathgate (1989)
Dolan, Lian The Sweeney Sisters Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Big-hearted belly-laugh of a book, told with wit and poignancy. Family secrets, laughter and tears, shocking reveals, and an uplifting ending make this a story to savor and share.
Donoghue, Emma The Pull of the Stars Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of The Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together.
Donoghue, Emma Various - Emma Donoghue Fiction Suggested By: Author.
  • Stir Fry (1994 - read 2001/10)
  • Hood (1995)
  • Slammerkin (2000)
  • Life Mask (2004)
  • Landing (2007)
  • The Sealed Letter (2008)
  • Room (2010 - read 2016/01)
  • Frog Music (2014 - read 2016/07)
  • The Wonder (2016)
  • The Lotterys Plus One (2017)
  • The Lotterys More or Less (2018)
  • Akin (2019)
  • The Pull of the Stars (2020)
  • Haven (2022)
Dooling, Richard Bet Your Life Fiction Flip insurance investigator, dead best buddy, curvy co-workers. If you're not hooked, you're a dead mackerel.
Doolittle, Sean Dirt Fiction Funeral Mystery/Comedy. On a clear autumn L.A. morning, sitting in the front row of his best friend's funeral, professional loafer Quince Bishop can't think of anything more depressing than watching yet another loved one being lowered into the ground?until a band of guerilla environmentalists crash the ceremony to deliver a lecture on the high cost of dying in America.
Downham, Jenny Before I Die Fiction Highly affecting novel about a 16-year-old British girl with leukemia. From EW: "I like to think of myself as a seen-it-all cynic...impervious to emotional manipulation." By chapter 38, with about 40 pages to go, I was pacing my living room unwilling to sit." Luminous prose. Downham earns every tear.
Doyle, Roddy Smile Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In Ireland, a neighborhood pub offers Victor Forde a respite from live - until a former schoolmate conjures memories Victor would rather forget.
Drake, Abigail The Enchanted Garden Cafe Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
For a woman who loves stability, Fiona has no idea how her life has spiraled into a magical concoction of chaos! Can she find a way to deal with her flighty mother, her struggling cafe, and the mysterious stranger who turns her world upside down? Quirky and enchanting read for fans of Sarah Addison Allen.
Drayson, Nicholas A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Fiction This charming novel gently pokes fun at Kenyan politics as it highlights health and special issues facing much of Africa. Fans of Alexander McCall Smith will find Drayson's writing just as entertaining.
Dressler, M. The Last To See Me Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Emma Rose still haunts a California mansion a century after her death - but when a ghost hunter threatens her with eviction, she faces the fight of her afterlife. Spellbinding from page one.
Dressler, M. Various - The Last Ghost Series Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Over one hundred years ago, Emma Rose Finnis was born and died in the remote northern California town she now haunts. When she was alive, she was a lowly chambermaid and worse, a Finnis. Now, no one remembers her hardworking life and her grand dreams--because there are none left to remember. In a world where phantoms are considered "unclean," the spirits of her town have already been swept away. All except Emma Rose.
  1. The Last To See Me
  2. I See You So Close
Duchovny, David Bucky F*cking Dent Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
Ted is a Yankee stadium peanut vendor who moves in with his dad, Marty, a Sox diehard fighting off cancer long enough to see his cursed team finally beat their hated rivals. Originally envisioned as a screenplay.
Dunn, Sarah The Arrangement Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Explores the adventures of a middle-aged couple, parents of an autistic son, who decide to try an open marriage. Sensible insights about love are the novel's ultimate destination, but the ride is wildly entertaining. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome.
Dunn, Sarah The Big Love Fiction Alison's longtime boyfriend goes out for mustard and doesn't return. Her overanalysis goes into overdrive and she re-evaluates her good-girl ways. A quick summer read that's both fun and smart.
Dunne, Dominick People Like Us Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
The best chronicler of American society since Truman Capote. When the Renthals move to New York, they hope to increase their fortune - but are soon caught up in the scandal of high society. Witty, wise, compassionate, and a darn good read.
Eberhart, Mignon Good The White Cockatoo Fiction Something I found by accident in the library catalog. It might be really really bad.
Echavarre, Sarah Three More Months Fiction Suggested By: Amazon.com.
Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. November 2021. Just days before her mother's funeral, Chloe finds her mother unaccountably alive and well. And it's no longer May; she's been transported back in time to March. No one--not Chloe's brother, friends, or colleagues--understands why Chloe is so confused. How can she make sense of this? It's impossible. But Chloe is going to make the most of it. She's going to do everything differently: repair family rifts, forge new bonds, tell her mother every day how much she loves her, and possibly prevent the inevitable.
Edens, Deanna Appalachian Tales Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Orphaned as a teen, Nadia grows up in the small town of Benwood, West Virginia. Struggling to make a life for herself and her younger brother she is determined to forge her own way. When a mining disaster tragically strikes her hometown, her life, and heart, is changed forever. Appalachian Tales is a charming and engaging tale, filled with amusing yarns about marriage, illustrations of courage and an unsolved mystery. It's the story of two women who meet in 1982, elderly Nadia telling her stories to Dee, a young college student living in Charleston, West Virginia.
Egan, Jennifer A Visit from the Goon Squad Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner: Over decades, the lives of record executive Bennie and his employee Sasha unfold in dizzying, dazzling ways. "The smartest book you can get your hands on" (Los Angeles Times).
Egan, Jennifer Manhattan Beach Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
Follows a young woman who's trying to understand the shady circumstances of her father's disappearance. Meanwhile, she's struggling to support her mother and her sister with her job as the first female diver at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Eggers, Dave The Circle Fiction About the encroaching tentacles of the world's most powerful Internet company.
Elden, Roxanna Adequate Yearly Progress Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A debut novel told with humor, intelligence, and heart. A funny but insightful look at teachers in the workplace, reminiscent of the TV show The Office, but set in an urban high school. Laugh-out-loud funny satire.
Elkins, Kimberly What is Visible Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned sign language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller. At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so terribly afflicted could be taught.
Ellen, Tom All About Us Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
"Magical and Beautiful." When Ben reconnects with his old flame, Alice, he wonders what life would have been like if they'd stayed together - and thanks to a mysterious watch and a little magic, he gets the chance to find out.
Ellis, Brett Easton Imperial Bedrooms Fiction Sequel to Less Than Zero.
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.15 Kindle book. Black man grapples with intolerance in Harlem.
Ellison, Ralph Juneteenth Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
By the author of The Invisible Man. Senator Adam Sunraider ison his deathbed when he reconnects with Daddy Hickman, the preacher who raised him.
Ellroy, James The LA Quartet (4 different books) Fiction The Black Dahlia, White Jazz, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential. Books about Los Angeles in the 40s and 50s. Noir!
Elmaleh, Antonio The Ones They Left Behind Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. The Ones They Left Behind is a sweeping, riveting, historically accurate account of post-Civil War America told through the journey of Harriman Hickenlooper, a Union veteran who sets off on a one-man peace march to heal the wounds of a bitter and divided country by retracing his steps on Sherman s March to the Sea. This time, instead of carrying a gun, he will carry a flag. Instead of marching for war, he will march for peace and find a reason to live and love again.
Erdrich, Louise Antelope Woman Fiction Suggested By: Author.
This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich's 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, new cover art, and a new foreword by the author--a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures. When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawano's mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized him--and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come.
Erdrich, Louise LaRose Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Two Native American families are devastated when a man accidentally shoots and kills his friend's young son.
Erdrich, Louise The Master Butchers Singers Club Fiction Grim and thoughtful, but also full of tenderness and life. Also, she's recommended by Louise P. in lieu of Alice Hoffman.
Erdrich, Louise The Night Watchman Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Erdrich's 17th novel is based on the life of her grandfather, an activist who fought against the termination of the Turtle Mountain band of the Native American Chippewa tribe. Filled with humor, wisdom, and the magic of native tradition, it's an engrossing tale and a tonic for the spirit.
Erdrich, Louise The Round House Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
It is an exquisitely told story of a boy living in an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.
Eugenides, Jeffrey The Virgin Suicides Fiction Suggested By: Other.
In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death.
Everett, Percival American Desert Fiction Pretend you committed suicide, but during your funeral you comb back to life albeit with no working organs and a crudely re-attached head. Wouldn't that suck? Apparently, not! Laugh-out-loud funny. Warning: review also says that it is "high concept".
Evison, Jonathan This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
After losing her husband, 78-year-old Harriet sets out on an Alaskan cruise and soon must confront her past and her relationship with her estranged daughter. "As sweet as it is inventive, profound as it is hilarious, unflinching as it is bighearted" - Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette.
Fake Steve Jobs Options Fiction For 14 months before his recent outing, Forbes senior editor, Daniel Lyons, surreptitiously channeled Apple's CEO in a hit-or-miss blog diary. This version is so textured and real that even his most idle thoughts amuse.
Fallon, Jane Getting Rid of Matthew Fiction A mistress's hilarious attempt to get rid of her married lover, after he leavs his family to move in with her.
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Available as an eBook from the library. The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Divided into four sections, the history is narrated by three Compson brothers--Benjamin, Quentin, and Jason--followed by a section by an omniscient narrator.
Faur, Peter Red Metal Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. In 2005, hedge-fund manager David Brown of Galileo Capital spots a rare opportunity. China's voracious appetite for copper is flooding Red Metal Corporation with cash, and Red Metal CEO Jeff Fowler appears hell-bent on leaving most of it in the bank.
Fauset, Jessie Redmon Plum Bun Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun (1928) brilliantly exemplifies the cultural, social, and creative ferment of the Harlem Renaissance. Its heroine, the young, talented, light-skinned Angela Murray, hopes for more from life than her black Philadelphia neighborhood and her middle-class upbringing seem to offer. Seeking romantic and creative fulfilment, and refusing to accept racist and sexist obstacles to her ambition, she makes a radical choice: to pass as white, and study art in New York City.
Faye, Lyndsaye The Gods of Gotham Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson: The first in a series, this thriller is more than a mystery or detective procedural. It's a stark look at a still-feral Manhattan, rife with crime and religious bigotry, and a character-driven family drama in which decades-old secrets are ultimately revealed.
Fellowes, Julian Snobs Fiction Women marrying into money.
Ferencik, Erica The River At Night Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
Nail-biting tale of a rafting trip gone wrong - The Descent meets The River Wild.
Ffitch, Madeline Stay and Fight Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In the Appalachian wilderness, a neighboring couple and their son move in with loner Helen. But when pressures from the outside world set in, can their makeshift family survive?
Fiedler, Lisa We Walked the Sky Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus. Specifically, the VanDrexel Family Circus where, among the lion tamers, roustabouts, and trapeze artists, Victoria hopes to start a better life. Fifty years later, Victoria's sixteen-year-old granddaughter Callie is thriving. A gifted and focused tightrope walker with dreams of being a VanDrexel high wire legend just like her grandmother, Callie can't imagine herself anywhere but the circus. But when Callie's mother accepts her dream job at an animal sanctuary in Florida just months after Victoria's death, Callie is forced to leave her lifelong home behind.
Fielding, Helen Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Fiction Shocking new development!
Fitch, Janet Paint It Black Fiction Fitch's first book since White Oleander. A moving tale of grief set in early-80s Los Angeles. This isn't light reading, but Fitch has crafted a rewarding story of power and grace. At its core, the book is about the dramas Josie experiences in mourning and how she finally comes to accept her boyfriend's death.
Fitzgerald, Penelope At Freddie's Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In 1960s London, eccentric Freddie Wentworth runs a struggling theater school for child actors. A work of immense poise and dignity, but warmth and humor too. Charming.
Fitzgerald, Penelope The Gate of Angels Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
In 1912, rational scientist Fred Fairly, one of Cambridge's best and brightest, crashes his bike and wakes up in bed with a stranger--fellow casualty Daisy Saunders, a charming, pretty, and almost pathologically generous working-class nurse. So begins a series of complications--not only of the heart but also of the head--as Fred and Daisy take up each other's education and turn each other's philosophies upside down.
Fitzgerale, Penelope The Beginning of Spring Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A bewitching Booker Prize finalist hailed as a singular achievement. In 1913, Englishman Frank Reid is left to care for his children and keep his struggling printing business afloat after his wife leave without explanation.
Flack, Sophie Bunheads Fiction At turns riveting, hilarious and bittersweet, Bunheads provides a backstage pass into the world of elite New York City ballet dancers. Author is a former NYC Ballet dancer.
Flagg, Fannie A Redbird Christmas Fiction Pretty sure that I've read this. After a startling diagnosis from his doctor, Oswald T. Campbell leaves behind the cold and damp of the oncoming Chicago winter to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River.
Flagg, Fannie Can't Wait to Get to Heaven Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner's nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner's neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch–and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, "What is life all about, anyway?" Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot's Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.
Flagg, Fannie Standing in the Rainbow Fiction Porch-swing read from Flagg.
Flagg, Fannie The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop Fiction Suggested By: Amazon.com.
Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop with his mother, Ruth, church-going and proper, and his Aunt Idgie, the fun-loving hell-raiser. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Cafe, known far and wide for its fun and famous fried green tomatoes. And as Bud often said of his childhood to his daughter Ruthie, "How lucky can you get?"
Flagg, Fannie Various - Fannie Flagg Fiction Suggested By: Author.
  • Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man (1981 - read 2001/12)
  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987)
  • Welcome to the World, Baby Girl (1998)
  • Standing in the Rainbow (2002)
  • A Redbird Christmas (2004)
  • Can't Wait to Get To Heaven (2006)
  • I Still Dream About You (2010 - read 2019/08)
  • The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion (2013 - read 2013/11)
  • The Whole Town's Talking (2016 - read 2019/10)
  • The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop (2020)
Flagg, Fannie Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! Fiction Brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television, Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise. Her present is rich with complications, and her past is marked by mystery.
Fleming, Ian James Bond Novels (I own them all) Fiction Suggested By: Movie/TV.
I OWN THEM ALL
  1. Casino Royale (1953, Kindle)
  2. Live and Let Die (1954, Kindle)
  3. Moonraker (1955, Kindle)
  4. Diamonds are Forever (1956, Kindle)
  5. From Russia with Love (1957, Kindle)
  6. Doctor No (1958, Kindle)
  7. Goldfinger (1959, Kindle)
  8. For Your Eyes Only - Short Stories (1960, Kindle)
    • From a View To a Kill
    • For Your Eyes Only
    • Quantum of Solace
    • Risico
    • The Hildebrand Rarity
  9. Thunderball (1961, Kindle)
  10. The Spy Who Loved Me (1962, Kindle)
  11. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963, Kindle)
  12. You Only Live Twice (1964, Kindle)
  13. The Man With The Golden Gun (1965, Kindle)
  14. Octopussy & The Living Daylights - Short Stories (1966, Kindle)
    • Octopussy
    • The Living Daylights
    • The Property of a Lady
    • 007 in New York
Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Fiction Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11.
Fogelson, Aliza The Lending Library Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
After her small town's library closes indefinitely, art teacher Dodie turns her own sunroom in to a lending library - with life-changing consequences. Quirky.
Ford, Jamie Songs of Willow Frost Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
An orphaned Chinese American boy embarks on an odyssey through Depression-era Seattle to find a mysterious woman who might be his mother. Author recommended by Pat Conroy.
Forester, C. S. Various - Horatio Hornblower Series Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Patrick Stewart said that William Shatner gave him a stack of Horatio Hornblower novels and said that everything you need to know about playing Captain Kirk is in here. The series looks like a hot mess - I'm not sure at all what the order of the books is.
  • The first three novels written, The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours were collected as Captain Horatio Hornblower (1939) by Little Brown in the US. Both a single-volume edition and a three-volume edition (in a slip case) were published.
  • Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, and Hornblower and the Atropos were compiled in one book, variously titled Hornblower's Early Years, Horatio Hornblower Goes to Sea, or The Young Hornblower. Hornblower and the Atropos was replaced by Hornblower and the Hotspur in later UK editions of The Young Hornblower.
  • Hornblower and the Atropos, The Happy Return, and A Ship of the Line were compiled into one omnibus edition, called Captain Hornblower.
  • Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord Hornblower, and Hornblower in the West Indies were presented as a third omnibus edition called Admiral Hornblower to fill out the series.
  • Commodore Hornblower, Lord Hornblower, and Hornblower in the West Indies were also compiled into one book, called The Indomitable Hornblower.
Fountain, Ben Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Fiction Suggested By: Movie/TV.
Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intensive warfare with Iraqi insurgents caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate public support for the war.
Fowler, Connie May How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly Fiction When a 30ish wife, mom, and writer is forced - thanks to some very unusual circumstances - to take stock in her life, the result is downright miraculous.
Fowler, Karen Joy The Jane Austen Book Club Fiction Endearing group of Californians gather to read Austen's six novels as a way to escape their own love lives. According to EW, the book is even better than the movie.
Fowler, Therese Anne Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald Fiction Suggested By: Movie/TV.
When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame.
Fowles, John The Magus Fiction Literary box of tricks involving a mysterious millionaire on a small Greek Isle (EW Must List).
Frank, Dorthea Benton Sullivan's Island Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A "hilarious and wise" NYT bestseller (Pat Conroy): with her family life falling apart, Susan Hayes returns to her childhood home on Sullivan's Island South Carolina - where she embarks on a journey of rediscovery.
Frankel, Lauren Hyacinth Girls Fiction Disconcerting and suspenseful. Pressures of adolescence, the cruelty of society, and how little we know our children.
Franklin-Willis, Amy The Lost Saints of Tennessee Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A riveting family saga (Pat Conroy). Unable to cope with the challenges of his life, Ezekiel leaves Tennessee and travels east. But his mother and young daughters hold out hope that their family will be reunited.
Franklin, Tom and Beth Ann Fennelly The Tilted World Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. Set during Prohibition, it tells the story of the great flood when the levees broke in Mississippi. It's a historical thrill ride, but the beating heart of the book is Dixie Clay. She's a bootlegging moonshine savant whose broken heart begins to heal when she falls first for an orphaned baby boy and then for the man who brought her the child--too bad he's a federal agent.
Franzen, Jonathan Freedom Fiction Franzen chronicles the ups and downs of Walter and Patty Berglund of St. Paul with a cold mind and a warm heart.
Frazier, Charles Thirteen Moons Fiction In the misty Appalacians, Will Cooper sits on his porch taking potshots at passing trains, lamenting modern annoyances like electricity, and reminiscing about his past as orphan, shopkeeper, senator, and "white chief" of the Cherokee. It's fertile material, so why is this novel so much less moving than "Cold Mountain"?
Freitas, Donna The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A charming, heartfelt, thought-provoking novel for fans of Liane Moriarty's What Alice Forgot. Rose, a successful professor, experiences nine version of her live in which she makes different decisions about having children.
Freudenberger, Nell The Newlyweds Fiction A young woman leaves her family in Bangaladesh to live in America as the wife of a man she met on the internet.
Fridland, Emily History of Wolves Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
The life of a lonely teenager in Minnesota becomes calamitously tangled with a young couple and their 4-year-old son in this starkly affecting coming-of-age novel.
Friedland, Elyssa The Floating Feldmans Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Annette Feldman hopes her 70th birthday celebration will bring her family back together - but can the Feldmans survive a Caribbean vacation without tearing each other apart?
Furst, Joshua Short People Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Children deal with life's triumphs and contradictions in this powerful collection. Like fairy tales, Furst's fables are full of hazards and temptations.
Gabaldon, Diana Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.23 Kindle book. Lord John Grey Book 2. It's been seventeen years since Lord John's father, the Duke of Pardloe, was found dead, a pistol in his hand and accusations of his role as a Jacobite agent staining forever a family's honor. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. Lord John's brother has mysteriously received a page of their late father's missing diary--and John is convinced that someone is taunting the Grey family with secrets from the grave. So he turns to the only man he can trust: the Scottish Jacobite James Fraser. But war, a forbidden affair, and Fraser's own secrets will complicate Lord John's quest--until James Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle and Lord John must decide whether his family's honor is worth his life.
Gabaldon, Diana Lord John and the Private Matter Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.15 Kindle book. Lord John Grey book 1. The year is 1757. On a clear morning in mid-June, Lord John Grey emerges from London's Beefsteak Club, his mind in turmoil. A nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majesty's army, Grey has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor.
Gaffney, Elizabeth Metropolis Fiction Story takes place in The Big Apple when the Brooklyn Bridge was under construction and running water was a novelty.
Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Mr. Gaines chronicled the struggles of black people in the South before the civil rights era. "This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in The Sound And The Fury." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured,' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works The Odyssey for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn for the clarity of her voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story in it all." -- Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek.
Gerrold, David The Martian Child Fiction A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son. The biggest question is why the story is presented in fictional form. As Gerrold explicitly states, it is based on reality, and no point seems to be served in manufacturing details, except, perhaps, that it allows Gerrold to focus on the thesis that lavish applications of love, patience and understanding (along with a bit of medication) can overcome any child's difficulties and create a marvelous father-son relationship and a successful adoptive process. Because it doesn't thoroughly address such serious potential problems as Dennis's propensity for petty theft and violence, the resulting story is less than believable.
Gibbons, Kaye Ellen Foster Fiction Old Ellen is the wittiest and most courageous character in contemporary Southern fiction - and she's only 11 years old.
Gibson, Fiona The Woman Who Upped and Left Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Hilarious. Forget about having it all. Sometimes you just want to leave it all behind. Audrey is often seized by the urge to walk out of her house.
Gilbert, Elizabeth City of Girls Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Two women in World War II-era Manhattan find adventure and excitement while breaking al the rules. Makes us feel like we are rocketing through the streets of New York City during the best days of our lives.
Ginder, Grant The People We Hate at the Wedding Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Alice and her brother head to London for their sister's lavish wedding - where chaos and family drama ensue! Shamelessly funny. These are characters I hope to be seated with at the next wedding I attend.
Glass, Julia The Widower's Tale Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When 70-year-old Percy rents his barn to a local preschool, he learns life still holds surprises - and finds his solitary world forever changed.
Goines, Donald Black Girl Lost Fiction Overheard some lady on the bus recommend this. Realistic urban fiction.
Goldberg, Amanda and Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper Celebutantes Fiction Witty and revealing. A walk-up to the Oscars where it's fun trying to sort fact from fiction as these two grew up in Hollywood. You'll feel like you were there, and be glad you weren't.
Goldberg, Myla Bee Season Fiction Jewish family implodes as the daughter ascends through the spelling bee ranks.
Goldberg, Myla Wickett's Remedy Fiction A young Irish Catholic girl in Boston struggles to survive the deadly 1918 flu epidemic.
Golden, Marita The Wide Circumference of Love Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
An NPR Best Book of 2017 from "a wonderful storyteller" (Newsweek): When Diane's husband develops early-onset dementia, she and her family are determined to be optimistic -- but the situation soon spirals in an unexpected direction.
Goodman, Allegra Intuition Fiction Cancer-lab researchers are torn asunder when one thinks he's developed a virus that melts away tumors in mice, while another jealously believes that he is guilty of falsifying those results.

Other titles include: Total Immersion, The Family Markowitz, and Paradise Park.
Goodman, Allegra Kaaterskill Falls Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
An intimate look at a closed Orthodox community. The tiny upstate New York town of Kaaterskill Falls is bustling with summer people in dark coats, fedoras, and long modest dresses.
Gordimer, Nadine July's People Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A "flawlessly written" novel (The New York Times Book Review) from a Nobel Prize–winning author: As violence erupts in South Africa, a white family takes refuge with July, their black servant. "Gordimer writes more knowingly about South Africa than anyone else" (The New York Times). Speculates about the end of Apartheid before it actually happened.
Gough, Julian Juno and Juliet Fiction Twin sisters attend university in Galway where they come of age.
Gowdy, Barbara The White Bone Fiction Novel told from perspective of wild African elephants.
Graham, Lauren Someday, Someday, Maybe Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
New York Times bestseller from star of Gilmore Girls. Fresh and funny and full of zingers.
Granados, Marlowe Happy Hour Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Effervescent. Amusingly mischievous. Follow 21-year-old Isa and her best friend, Gala, as they make the most of their precarious lives in New York City. Intoxicating. Heartbreaking and joyful.
Grau, Shirley Ann Roadwalkers Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A beautiful novel following a black mother and daughter through the Great Depression and Civil Rights era.
Green, Amy K. The Prized Girl Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
A teenage pageant queen has been raped and murdered in the goods of a suburban New England town. The question isn't so much whodunit as who didn't do it in this darkly funny thriller with a shocker ending.
Green, Hank A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Who has the right to live forever? How will we live online? How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world? The Carls disappeared in the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction with only their presence.
Green, Jane Jemima J. Fiction Jemima J. loses 121 pounds, but will happiness follow?
Green, John Various - John Green Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Originally suggested by Books And Bars book club. Waiting for him to write more books.
  • Looking for Alaska (2005 - read 2013/06, 2016/02, 2020/01, Kindle)
  • An Abundance of Katherines (2006 - read 2013/06, 2019/04)
  • Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances – with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle (2008 - read 2013/10, 2015/12, 2018/12, 2021/02 Kindle)
  • Paper Towns (2008 - read 2013/07, 2015/04, Kindle)
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson – with David Levithan (2010 - read 2013/07, Kindle)
  • The Fault in Our Stars (2012 - 2013/05, 2014/05, Kindle)
  • Turtles All the Way Down (2017 - read 2017/10, Kindle)
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed (2021) Coming out 5/18/2021
Greene, Amy Bloodroot Fiction Searing debut novel set in the bone-poor hollows of the eastern Tennessee mountains that tells the story of the long-afflicted Lamb family. Terribly sad, breathtakingly good read.
Greene, Graham The End of the Affair Fiction Recommended by mountaineer David Roberts for its "irreducible tragedy at the core of the story." Also, a movie with Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes.
Greene, Graham Travels with My Aunt Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When retired bank manager Henry Pulling attends his mother's funeral, he reunites with his eccentric aunt Augusta - who ropes him into a madcap adventure through Europe. Cheerfully irreverent.
Greene, Thomas Christopher The Headmaster's Wife Fiction Luminous and atmospheric, bringing to life the tight-knit enclave of a quintessential New England boarding school, the novel is part mystery, part love story and an exploration of the ties of place and family.
Greer, Andrew Sean Less Fiction Suggested By: Book Award List.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Greer, Andrew Sean The Confessions of Max Tivoli Fiction Born in 1871 at age 70, Max Tivoli grows younger with time and, hence, already knows the year of his death. For all the melancholy, a rich and mesmerizing tale.
Greer, Andrew Sean The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Fiction Suggested By: Author.
"Wonderful" (John Irving). A psychiatric patient who finds herself living three hauntingly similar lives in three different eras.
Gregory, Phillippa The Boleyn Inheritance Fiction Historical fiction, brilliantly depicts what life must have been like with maniacal Henry VIII from the perspective of three women close to him.
Grenville, Kate The Idea of Perfection Fiction Set in tiny Australian town. A nerdy engineer and a plain museum curator fall in love while one is trying to save a bridge, and the other's job is to destroy it. A sweet and funny love story.
Grey, Zane The Hash Knife Outfit Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Available as library eBook. The Arizona Pony Express runs out of Hash Knife. This gripping page-turner follows a raucous gang of outlaws who are the terror of the Old West. But as bullets fly and damsels fall in and out of distress, will the notorious Hash Knife Outfit find a reason to reform their lawless ways?
Grisham, John Calico Joe Fiction Story of a pitcher whose famous fastball turns lethal.
Groen, Hendrik On the Bright Side: The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 Years Old Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
$2.15 Kindle book. Follow-up to The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen (available as library e-book). After a year spent mourning the death of his beloved friend Eefje, Hendrik may be older and a little more wobbly, but his youthful appetite for mischief hasn't diminished. When fears arise that the home is set for demolition, it's up to Hendrik and the Old-But-Not-Dead Club to intervene.
Gross, Max The Lost Shtetl Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In a remote corner of Poland, the inhabitants of a tiny Jewish village ignore the modern world - until a shocking event turns their lives upside down. An ingenious yarn that delivers laugh-out-loud moments and deep insight.
Gruber, Michael The Good Son Fiction The suspense is terrific, but in this book it's a bonus. I learned more about the jihadist mindset in these pages - an in an entertaining way - than in all the cable-TV punditry I've seen since 9/11.
Guthrie, Woody House of Earth Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Lost for decades, this masterful novel from an American folk icon "belongs on a shelf alongside Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath" (New York Post). Follow Tike and Ella May as they fight for survival in "an invaluable addition to the literature of the Dust Bowl".
Gyllenhall, Liza Local Knowledge Fiction A powerful and deeply moving novel about the lies we tell ourselves, the moral corners we cut, and the loved ones we betray to get what we want. Gyllenhaal has x-ray vision into the human heart and a sharp eye for contemporary mores and social maneuvering. She knows women and men and children, and pins them to the page with some of the most dazzling prose I?ve read in a long time.
Gyuasi, Yaa Transcendent Kingdom Fiction Suggested By: Other.
BooksAndBars 2021 email. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.
Hagen, George The Laments Fiction Heartrending and surprisingly comic family saga. Mother, Rose, staunch defender of British colonialism disapproves of their move to America. Abundant surprises will make you weep and guffaw in equal measures.
Haig, Matt The Midnight Library Fiction Suggested By: Other.
BooksAndBars 2021 email. "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."--The Washington Post. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
Haigh, Jennifer Mrs. Kimble Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of Baker Towers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan,and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmatic opportunist: Ken Kimble. Resonating with emotional intensity and narrative innovation.
Haley, Arthur Hotel Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.14 Kindle book. During five sultry days, the lives of the guests, the management, and the workers at New Orleans' largest and most elite hotel converge. The owner has four days to raise the money to save his financially ailing property. The general manager, once blacklisted from the hospitality business, struggles with one crisis after another. A rebellious heiress will do anything to attain her secret desires. The duke and the duchess in the lavish presidential suite are covering up a crime. And within one of the many guest rooms hides a professional thief.
Hall, Steven The Raw Shark Texts Fiction The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.
Halpern, Sue Summer Hours a the Robbers Library Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Suffused with a love of books and reading. In small-town New England, a local library provides unexpected friendship - and a chance at a new start - for three struggling individuals. Available as library e-book.
Halpern, Sue Summer Hours at the Robbers Library Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In small-town New England, a local library provides unexpected friendship - and a chance at a new start - for head librarian Kit, feisty teen Sunny, and failed businessman Rusty. Free-ranging empathy, lithe humor, and penetrating insights.
Halpin, Brendan Donorboy Fiction Single guy takes in the daughter he fathered years earlier via sperm donation. Halpin writes with an easy humor that lets him strike a balance between pathos and irreverence. The hopeful finale feels just right.
Halpin, Brendan Long Way Back Fiction Truly funny moments about an ex-altar boy who worships God, the Ramones, and his older sister. Pitch-perfect dialogue.
Hamid, Mohsin How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world's pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation--and exceeds it. The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over "rising Asia." It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along.
Hamill, Pete Forever Fiction Cormac's parents are killed by an English nobleman, and he follows the murdered to NYC to exact revenge. Swings deal to become immortal as long as he never leaves Manhattan, and bears witness to four centuries of NYC history.
Hamilton, Jane The Short History of a Prince Fiction A young man deals with his brother's death an his love for another man. Recommended by Elizabeth Berg, along with "The Book of Ruth", and "A Map of the World".
Hamner, Earl Spencer's Mountain Fiction Novelized memoir on which the TV Show The Waltons is based.
Hannah, Kristin Fly Away Fiction Sequel to "Firefly Land". Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen.
Hannah, Kristin Various - Hannah Kristin Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen
  • A Handful of Heaven (1991)
  • The Enchantment (1992)
  • Once in Every Life (1992)
  • If You Believe (1993)
  • When Lightnings Strikes (1994)
  • Waiting for the Moon (1995)
  • Home Again (1996)
  • On Mystic Lake (1999)
  • Angel Falls (2000)
  • Summer Island (2001)
  • Distant Shores (2002)
  • Between Sisters (2003)
  • The Things we Do for Love (2004)
  • Comfort and Joy (2005)
  • Magic Hour (2006)
  • Firefly Lane (2008 - read 2014/06)
  • True Colors (2009)
  • Winter Garden (2010)
  • Night Road (March 2011)
  • Home Front (2012)
  • Fly Away (2013)
  • The Four Winds (2021)
Hansen, Gerald Static Cling Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. The Irish Lottery Series book 5. PLEASE NOTE: Although this book is part of the IRISH LOTTERY SERIES, there is no cliffhanger. It is true that the characters get older as the series progresses, but each book is a complete story, and can be enjoyed without having read the previous book. When an armed robbery at Final Spinz, the dry cleaners where hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood works, leads to the death of beloved pensioner Mrs. Ming, the ensuing investigation unleashes dark secrets that promise to bring Fionnuala closer to her husband Paddy, her mother Maureen, and the four children of her brood still in town. Or tear them apart forever.
Hardiman, Rebecca Good Eggs Fiction Suggested By: Other.
"I laughed all the way through Rebecca Hardiman's debut novel about a completely dysfunctional, yet lovable, Irish family. Millie is 80-something and (maybe) mentally slipping a bit. Aideen is her 16-year-old granddaughter, full of angst and trouble. Kevin, father of Aideen and son of Millie, is going through his own midlife crisis." For fans of A Man Called Ove.
Harrigan, Stephen Challenger Park Fiction At the novel's center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children, with a fierce ambition to excel in the space program. Her husband, Brian, a rigorous man whose dreams of glory have been blighted by two star-crossed missions. This guy spent a year interviewing real female astronauts, including the psycho diaper lady.
Harris, Charlaine Midnight, Texas Trilogy Fiction Suggested By: Author.
By the author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels.
  • Midnight Crossroad (2014 - read 2019/07, Kindle)
  • Day Shift (2015 - read 2019/07)
  • Night Shift (2016)
Harris, Charlaine Various - The Gunnie Rose Series Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they're at a desperate crossroad, even if they won't admit it. They're searching through the small border towns near Mexico, trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner, Oleg Karkarov. The wizards believe Oleg is a direct descendant of Grigori Rasputin, and that Oleg's blood can save the young tsar's life.
  1. An Easy Death (2018)
  2. A Longer Fall (2020)
  3. The Russian Cage (2021)
Harris, Joanne Gentlemen and Players Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
As eccentric Latin teacher Roy Straitley prepares for another term at St. Oswald's School for Boys, a new faculty member arrives with a secret plan to destroy the institution. Constantly surprising and wickedly fun.
Harrison, Noelle The Boatman's Wife Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A heartbreaking story that you can't put down. There was some dark secret in this western edge of Ireland that her husband never wanted her to find out. She might never be able to lay his body to rest, but she could gain some kind of...
Hartnett, Annie Rabbit Cake Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette and and Kevin Wilson's The Family Fang will delight in Annie Hartnett's debut, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world without her mother.
Harvey, Michael Brighton Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
A tale of murder and old friends - and a paean to the dark, gritty streets of Boston.
Harwood, Seth Young Junius Fiction Suggested By: Other.
$2.15 Kindle book. Fourteen-year-old Junius Posey pushes weed for a small-time neighborhood dealer--a low rung on the ladder of the gangster life surrounding him. But when his older brother is shot dead, Junius grips a gun for the first time and starts climbing.
Hassman, Tupelo Girlchild Fiction An old Girl Scout Handbook helps bookworm Rory envision life beyond her trailer park in Reno.
Hawley, Noah Before the Fall Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
After the private jet he's aboard crashes off Martha's Vineyard, painter Scott Burroughs makes it to shore. Then, with media hounds and the other survivor's guardians trying to uncover why the plane crashed, the two survivors' lives get really interesting.
Hayes, Ned The Eagle Tree Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. Fourteen-year-old March Wong knows everything there is to know about trees. They are his passion and his obsession, even after his recent falls--and despite the state's threat to take him away from his mother if she can't keep him from getting hurt. But the young autistic boy cannot resist the captivating pull of the Pacific Northwest's lush forests just outside his back door. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome.
Heatherington, Emma The Legacy of Lucy Harte Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes. After receiving a heart transplant, Maggie promised to make every moment count. Eighteen years later, can an unexpected letter help her finally embrace her second chance at life?
Hedges, Peter What's Eating Gilbert Grape Fiction Book on which the movie is based.
Heiny, Katherine Early Morning Riser Fiction Suggested By: Other.
May be the funniest novel of the year. But any notion Jane had of love and marriage changes with one terrible car crash. Soon Jane's life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and Jane knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But could it be possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of Jane's eyes? A novel that is alternately bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, Katherine Heiny's Early Morning Riser is her most astonishingly wonderful work to date.
Heiny, Katherine Standard Deviation Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Happily married Graham spirals into a crisis of heart in this charming work of satire. Amusing riffs on marriage, misfits, and finicky eaters.
Heldt, John A. The Show Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. Northwest Passage book 3. Seattle, 1941. Grace Vandenberg, 21, is having a bad day. Minutes after Pearl Harbor is attacked, she learns that her boyfriend is a time traveler from 2000 who has abandoned her for a future he insists they cannot share. Determined to save their love, she follows him into the new century. But just when happiness is within her grasp, she accidentally enters a second time portal and exits in 1918. Distraught and heartbroken, Grace starts a new life in the age of Woodrow Wilson, silent movies, and the Spanish flu. She meets her parents as young, single adults and befriends a handsome, wounded Army captain just back from the war.
Hemmings, Kaui Hart The Descendants Fiction The movie was based on this book. A wealthy attorney descended from Hawaiian royalty struggles with his rebellious daughters and his coma-ridden wife, as well as Hawaii's complicated conceptions of heritage and ownership.
Henderson, Eleanor The Twelve-Mile Straight Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In Depression-era Georgia, the inhabitants of a farm are forced to deal with startling repercussions when a field hand is lynched. Powerful tale of social complexity told in radiant and precise prose.
Henry, Patti Callahan The Bookshop at Water's End Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. If you've never been to a South Carolina beach town, you practically can here. Henry excels at sense of place, and her love for the natural world shines out of the pages. I came for the scenery but stayed to see if Bonnie and her daughter Piper could each find their purpose in life and their peace with one another. Just flat-out lovely.
Hepinstall, Kathy The Book of Polly Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to chase varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors--and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young modern mothers of their small conventional Texas town.
Herbert, Debbie Not One of Us Fiction Suggested By: Amazon.com.
Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. Thirteen years ago, Jori Trahan's boyfriend vanished without a trace. Now, after moving back home to Alabama to care for her ailing grandmother and autistic brother, she comes face-to-face with the deadly mystery behind his disappearance. Jori has a rare form of synesthesia, meaning she can "hear" colors; to her, tones of voice are as unique as fingerprints. With the help of this ability and a sympathetic cop, Jori comes dangerously close to uncovering the truth. But those responsible will go to any length--including murder--to keep their dark secrets buried.
Hiaasen, Carl Lucky You Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Two white supremacist wannabes steal a winning lotto ticket.
Hiaasen, Carl Sick Puppy Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Twilly discovers that Stoat is about to mall a Gulf Coast island.
Hickman, Homer Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Woman, a Husband, and her Alligator Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love.
Hidden, Rumer The Battle Of The Villa Fiorita Fiction Recommended by Rebecca. This is an exciting story, set in the Villia Fiorita, on Lake Garda, Italy. Fanny had gone there with Rob, named as the co-respondent in her recent divorce, to await the decree absolute that would let them marry. The father had been awarded custody of the two younger children, Hugh and Caddie, but they had decided to follow their mother, and so they came face to face with Rob, and the story of the long feud that follows provides an exciting story. Not until the end is the outcome of the struggle hinted at, and when it comes it will surprise most readers.
Hill, Joe Heart Shaped Box Fiction Hill's story about an aging rock star (with a penchant for macabre artifacts) who buys a haunted suit online will scare you silly. Recommended by Neil Gaiman.
Hill, Sean Very Short Stories Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Free Kindle book. 300 Bite-Size Works of Fiction. In this one-of-a-kind collection, author Sean Hill has crafted hundreds of engaging stories that conjure an entire novel in just a sentence or two. Sometimes sad, often humorous and always creative, these tales touch on a wide range of life experiences from romance and family to death and sex.
Hjorth, Vigdis Long Live the Post Horn! Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Wry and thoughtful. Publicist Ellinor has been in a slump. But when she's assigned to work as a consultant for the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, her life is transformed. Full of unexpected detours and driving prose.
Hlad, Alan The Long Flight Home Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In World War II England, Susan is recruited for the National Pigeon Service - and embarks on a life-changing flight with Ollie, a pilot from Maine. Based on true events.
Hoang, Helen The Bride Test Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
This follow up to Hoang's Fizzy debut The Kiss Quotient is even better. A minor character from that first novel, Khai, on the autism spectrum (like the author), gets swoony leading man treatment. The writing is sensitive yet very funny. Autism spectrum. Autism. Autistic. Spectrum. Asperger's syndrome.
Hoang, Helen The Kiss Quotient Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
After making this entry (a long time), I heard the author on NPR on VD 2022. Fizzy debut The Kiss Quotient is a reverse-ish Pretty Woman about a tech whiz named Stella who falls for the escort she hires to teach her the ways of sex. The author, diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2016 put an autistic heroine at the center of the novel. Autism spectrum. Autism. Autistic. Spectrum. Asperger's syndrome.
Hoffman, Alice At Risk Fiction I may have missed this one from 1988. Amanda, who has been winning gymnastic meets despite a summer-long malaise, tests positive for AIDS, contracted some five years before when she was transfused with contaminated blood after an appendectomy.
Hoffman, Alice Incantation Fiction Young People. Grade 7 Up?The opposing forces of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal underscore this brief but rich tale set during the Spanish Inquisition. Told by 16-year-old Estrella deMadrigal, the novel shows how gruesome beliefs nourished by ignorance and prejudice destroyed the lives of countless people.
Hoffman, Alice The Marriage of Opposites Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
$0.00 Kindle book. I am skeptical about Alice Hoffman's historical fiction, but it was cheap so I'll give it a try. Free with credits from Amazon. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle's daughter. But Rachel's life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father's business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.
Holman, Sheri The Mammoth Cheese Fiction Town pastor wants to generate publicity for small town by convincing resident to make a huge cheese. Enjoyable slice of Americana.
Holmes, Linda Evvie Drake Starts Over Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
Eveleth "Evvie" Drake is too young to be a widow and Dean Tenney is too young to retire. But here they both are: 30ish. Evvie rattles around her big empty house in coastal Maine. Disgraced pitcher Dean, a New York Yankee with a career-ending case of the "yips".
Holsinger, Bruce The Gifted School Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Recommended for book clubs. When an exclusive school for gifted children opens in a small Colorado town, four families will stop at nothing to have their children accepted.
Honeyman, Gail Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Wacky, charming novel. Eleanor Oliphant is actually not fine at all, but her story is hilarious and moving.
Hood, Ann The Obituary Writer Fiction A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras. Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen.
Horn, Dara The World to Com Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Nothing short of amazing! Believing it once belonged to his parents, Benjamin Ziskind steals a famous painting from a museum - and unfurls three generations of his family's history.
Horn, Dara The World To Come Fiction Suggested By: Amazon.com.
Recommended by Alice Hoffman. "Nothing short of amazing."―Entertainment Weekly. A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents' living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family's startling history―from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.
Hornby, Nick A Long Way Down Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Four attempted suicides end up forming a whacky support group.
Hornby, Nick Funny Girl Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Barbara looks like Marilyn Monroe, but she wants to be Lucille Ball.
Hornby, Nick Just Like You Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It's not a match anyone one could have predicted. He's of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through.
Hornby, Nick State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Now an Emmy award winning SundanceTV series starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O'Dowd. Tom and Louise meet in a pub before their couple's therapy appointment. Married for years, they thought they had a stable home life--until a recent incident pushed them to the brink. Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their appointment, they begin to wonder: what if marriage is like a computer? What if you take it apart to see what's in there, but then you're left with a million pieces?
House, Silas Clay's Quilt Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When his mother dies during a harsh Appalachian winter, Clay must find a new family and a place to belong among the residents of Free Creek
Howrey, Meg The Cranes Dance Fiction At first glance, there are plenty of parallels between the film Black Swan and Howrey's novel. Authentic behind-the-curtain details (Howrey is a former dancer) do occasionally overpower the plot.
Hudson, Genvieve Boys of Alabama Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When Max, a shy teenager with an unusual gift, moves from Germany to Alabama with his family, he becomes captivated by his new life in the South - and his deepening relationship with his classmate Pan. A soul-stirring debut...bewitching.
Hughs, Pernille Ten Years Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes. Becca and Charlie have hated each other ever since they met at university. But after a mutual loved one dies, they come together to complete the bucket list she left behind. As the years pass, their relationship blossoms into something deeper than they could have ever imagined.
Huntree, Margot Lovely Girls Fiction Suggested By: Amazon.com.
$0.00 Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads February 2023. After the sudden death of her husband, Kate Turner is looking for a fresh start for herself and her teenage daughter, Alex. They relocate to the beachside town of Shoreham, Florida, where all is not as sunny as it seems. Although Kate makes fast friends with a trio of fellow moms, their daughters take an instant dislike to Alex, who attempts to document their bullying in her video diary. Kate brushes off Alex's concerns--until she receives a series of chilling warnings about the clique of moms from other parents and neighbors. As it becomes harder for her to ignore the malicious undercurrent she senses among her new friends, Kate grows increasingly unsure of who to believe--and who to trust.
Hurston, Zora Neale Every Tongue Got To Confess Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Delightful collection of African American folklore brings together a wealth of tales from communities all over the Deep South.
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Fiction When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres.
Hyde, Catherine Ryan Have You Seen Luis Velez? Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When young outcast Raymond meeds Mildred, 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, the two form an unexpected and life-changing bond. Fans of Liane Moriarty and Kristin Hannah will adore the connection between the unlikeliest of friends. Harold and Maude, much?
Iloh, Candice Every Body Looking Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it's the first time she's ever been so far from her family--and the first time that she's been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past--her mother's struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father's attempts to make a home for her. Ultimately, Ada discovers she needs to brush off the destiny others have chosen for her and claim full ownership of her body and her future.
Irving, John A Son of the Circus Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.23 Kindle book. A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality. They are misfits--coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India, this is John Irving's most ambitious novel and a major publishing event.
Irving, John A Widow for One Year Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.23 Kindle book. Basis for the movie, "A Door in the Floor". Estranged couple cope with the death of their son. Complex evolution of their daughter. Hey, it's the "Garp" guy...In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she's about to fall in love for the first time).
Irving, John Avenue of Mysteries Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$1.07 Kindle book. Juan Diego is a novelist who constantly slips into dreams of his youth in Mexico and his mind-reading sister. Charming - blends the fantastical with what is deeply real.
Irving, John Setting Free The Bears Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.41 Kindle book. It is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles--on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old.
Irving, John The 158-Pound Marriage Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.15 Kindle book. I do NOT remember reading this, but my John Irving list says that I did. It is not logged on this website. The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive.
Irving, John The Water-Method Man (The Water Method Man) Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.15 Kindle book. This book got mixed reviews, but I think it's worth $2 to be able to take my time to read early Irving just for the sake of seeing how he has evolved over time. Fred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness: His ex-wife has moved in with his childhood best friend, his life is the subject of a tell-all movie, and his chronic urinary tract infection requires surgery.
Irving, John The World According to Garp Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$10.78 Kindle book. The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel The World According to Garp signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater." Jenny is an unmarried nurse; she becomes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing. Her son, Garp, is less beloved, but no less polarizing.
Irving, John Until I Find You Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.23 Kindle book. Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead – has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or "scratcher."
Irving, John Various - John Irving Fiction Suggested By: Author.
  • Setting Free the Bears (1968 - read, Kindle)
  • The Water-Method Man (1972 - read, Kindle) Did I actually read this? When? It would have been decades ago, if ever...
  • The 158-Pound Marriage (1974 - read, Kindle)
  • The World According to Garp (1978 - read, Kindle)
  • The Hotel New Hampshire (1981 - read)
  • The Cider House Rules (1985, Kindle)
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989, Kindle)
  • A Son of the Circus (1994, Kindle)
  • The Imaginary Girlfriend (non-fiction, 1995)
  • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (collection, 1996, Kindle)
  • A Widow for One Year (1998, Kindle)
  • My Movie Business (non-fiction, 1999)
  • The Fourth Hand (2001, Kindle)
  • A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound (2004)
  • Until I Find You (2005, Kindle)
  • Last Night in Twisted River (2009, Kindle)
  • In One Person (read 2013, Kindle)
  • Avenue of Mysteries (2015, Kindle)
  • Darkness As a Bride (2019)
Ivin, Jonna Sister Girl Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Free Kindle book. This humorous coming of age novel by Jonna Ivin takes the reader on a journey through the late 60's into the early 80's. You'll fall in love with Sister Girl as she manages to survive a world where grownups teach her how to nail clothes to the floor, hustle money at the track, and play with matches. All the while she manages the overwhelming responsibility of being the big sister to Grace (an increasingly odd child who barks at strangers).
Jackson, Joshilyn Various - Joshilyn Jackson Fiction Suggested By: Author.
She was recommended by Sarah Addison Allen. Someone Else's Love Story was so good, I need to to back and read the rest of her books.
  • Gods in Alabama* (2005 - read 2014/01, Kindle)
  • Between, Georgia* (2007 - read 2014/04, listened 2018/01, Kindle)
  • The Girl Who Stopped Swimming* (2008 - read 2014/07, listened 2018/01, Kindle)
  • Backseat Saints* (2010 - read 2015/01, listened 2018/01, Kindle)
  • A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty* (2012 - read 2015/01, Kindle)
  • Someone Else's Love Story* (2013 - read 2013/12, Kindle)
  • My Own Miraculous (2013 short story - read 2014/01, Kindle)
  • The Opposite of Everyone* (2016 - read 2016/02, Kindle)
  • The Almost Sisters* (2017 - read 2017/07, Kindle)
  • Never Have I Ever (2019 - read 2019/08, Kindle)
  • Mother May I (2021 - read 2021/04, Kindle)
  • With My Little Eye (2023, Kindle)
*Audio
Jackson, Shirley We Have Always Lived in the Castle Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.23 Kindle book. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. A deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Jacobson, Howard Live a Little Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended on list posted by Elizabeth Berg. Beryl Dusinbery, a nonagenarian who's losing her memory, and Shimi Carmelli, an 80-something who remembers everything, are both coming to grips with the indignities of aging. As Beryl attempts to recall the stories of her past, Shimi is trying to forget his childhood shame, and both are considering all the paths not taken. While most of the story introduces us intimately to each character, we soon find them developing a relationship of their own and wondering if new love is possible in old age. Both irreverent and tender, this is a witty and insightful tale of reaching the inevitable end of one's life.
Jakes, John North and South Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$1.99 Kindle book. Includes only book 1: North and South. Does not include book 2 Love and War, or book 3 Heaven and Hell. There was a miniseries starring Patrick Swayze (1985, 1986, and 1994).
Jakes, John The North and South Trilogy Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$4.29 Kindle books. North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell.
Jane, Sarah Maiden Voyage: A Titanic Story Fiction Suggested By: Other.
 
Jaswal, Balli Kaur Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A Reese Witherspoon book club pick that's "big-hearted". While teaching creative writing to a group of older Sikh women, Nikki learns to embrace her heritage.
Jaswal, Balli Kaur The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
To honor their mother's dying with, three sisters embark on a pilgrimage to India - where they uncover secrets about their pasts. This woman-driven story explores family relationships and histories with grace, humor, and warmth.
Jett, Julie When The Storm Passes Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Free Kindle book. In her debut novel, Joplin-area native Julie Jett chronicles the destruction of Joplin, the character and heart of its people, and the story of a young girl who finds her way home.
Johnson, Adam Fortune Smiles Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
This "masterful" National Book Award winner and NPR Best Book of 2015 explores loss, change, and modern life. "Johnson's writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring."
Johnson, Denis Tree of Smoke Fiction Think you don't need another long novel about Vietnam? In the book's best section, Johnson gives a chilling ground-level account of the Tet offensive.
Johnson, Diane Le Divorce Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Cultures clash in a whirlwind of money, drama, and divorce when film school dropout Isabel Walker visits her glamorous stepsister in Paris. Social comedy at its best.
Johnson, Mat Loving Day Fiction When biracial Warren Duffy returns home to Philadelphia, he meets the teenage daughter he didn't know existed, who has been raised to believe she is white. Satirical and moving, a smart examination of racial identity in America.
Johnson, T. Geronimo Welcome to Braggsville Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Longlisted for the National Book Award! When four students protest a Civil War reenactment in a small Southern town, it leads to devastating consequences. "The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you'll read this year" (The Washington Post).
Johnstone, William and J.A. Johnstone Go West, Young Man Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A gripping adventure. Amid whispers of an impending civil war, John Zachary heads west with his best friend, Emmett Braxton. But journeying with their families on the Oregon Trail won't be without its challenges.
Jonasson, Jonas The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Fiction Suggested By: GoodReads.com.
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, so he decides to escape.
Jonasson, Jonas The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
He's back. Even older. Even funnier. It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harboring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Yikes!
Jones, Brendan The Alaskan Laundry Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
As Tara adapts to live on a remote Alaskan island, she develops relationships that will change her forever.
Jones, Edward P. All Aunt Hagar's Children Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
An engrossing exquisitely crafted and unforgettable collection about disparate characters navigating life in the American South.
Jones, Tayari An American Marriage Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. A rising young executive and a talented artist, respectively, the couple has everything to look forward to. Then, while on a trip to visit Celestial's family, Roy is accused of rape by a woman in their hotel. He's innocent, but is convicted and sentenced to twelve years in prison. By the time he's exonerated and released, Celestial has started a relationship with his best friend. As wrenching as it is heartwarming, this masterful novel by the author of Silver Sparrow is both an illuminating examination of how the country's justice system tears apart African-American lives and a powerful, complicated love story.
Joyce, Rachel Miss Benson's Beetle Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Margery Benson dreams of finding a mythical gold beetle in New Caledonia. So she and her irritating assistant set sail from London in 19050 - and become kindred spirits during an adventure both zany and harrowing. It's a wildly original, life-affirming tale.
Joyce, Rachel Perfect Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A tale that "could easily become a book club favorite" (The Washington Post). When an ordinary morning takes an unsettling turn, Byron must contend with frightening realities
Joyce, Rachel The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Available at the library. Sequel to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Joyce, Rachel The Music Shop Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Fans of High Fidelity meet your next quirky love story.
Joyce, Rachel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Fiction Suggested By: Other.
$2.15 Kindle book. Recommended on list posted by Elizabeth Berg. Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Now there is a sequel: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.
Kagen, Leslie Land of a Hundred Wonders Fiction Set in Cray Ridge, Ky., in 1973, Kagen's winsome second novel (after Whistling in the Dark) offers laughter and bittersweet sighs. As a child, NQR (Not Quite Right) Gibby McGraw survived an auto accident that claimed her parents' lives, but left her somewhat mentally challenged.
Kapur, Ratika The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
A "simple woman from a good family", Mrs. Sharma is certain nothing untoward will happen when she meets a nice man in the Delhi metro. But her husband is working overseas, her beloved son has become impossible, work's a bore, and...uh-oh. This delightfully funny novel delivers a serious message.
Kauffman, Rebecca The Gunners Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Mikey Callahan, a thirty-year-old who is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration, struggles to establish human connections--even his emotional life is a blur. As the novel begins, he is reuniting with "The Gunners," his group of childhood friends, after one of them has committed suicide. Sally had distanced herself before ending her life, and she died harboring secrets about herself and her friends. In this quietly startling, beautiful book, Mikey, Alice, Lynn, Jimmy, and Sam search for the core of truth, friendship, and forgiveness.
Kaufman, Bel Up the Down Staircase Fiction Suggested By: Movie/TV.
Available as library eBook. Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City's Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is depicted through an extraordinary collection of correspondence--sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, "polio consent slips," and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. Up the Down Staircase stands as the seminal novel of a beleaguered public school system that is redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized. It is poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and--in our current moment of debate around the future of American education--more relevant than ever.
Kawakami, Hiromi The Nakano Thrift Shop Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
This gentle, humorous novel follows Hitomi, a young shop attendant who works at a mysterious secondhand store filled with objects that hold innumerable stories and secrets. An endlessly charming read.
Kay, Patricia The Wrong Child Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Free Kindle book. What would you do if you discovered your adored child wasn't your child at all? That a mistake had been made in the hospital, and someone else took your child home, and you took theirs? This is the heartbreaking dilemma facing Abbie Bernard and Logan O'Connell -- an impossible situation with no acceptable answer.
Keily, Tamsin Daisy Cooper's Rules for Living Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Daisy Cooper's life is just getting started, when suddenly it ends. Surprised to find herself in an Afterlife processing center, she is even more stunned to learn that she wasn't meant to die for another fifty years. One terrible, embarrassing clerical error is behind it--and an administrator named Death is to blame. But death, as they say, is final, and Daisy must now navigate this impossible new world. With the help of an unlikely ally, Daisy begins to realize that letting go isn't just a challenge faced by those left behind. And as she learns how to survive this strange reality, friendship, hope and love begin to come alive in the most unexpected ways.
Kelly, Martha Hall Lilac Girls Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Three women find their worlds colliding with the outbreak of World War II. Extremely moving and memorable.
Kelman, Stephen Pigeon English Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
An irresistible Booker Prize finalist perfect for fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. When young Ghanaian emigrant Harri Opoku discovers that one of his classmates has been killed, he and his best friend investigate. Sparkles with wonder and delight.
Kennedy, Paulette The Witch of Tin Mountain Fiction Suggested By: Amazon.com.
Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads January 2023. 1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures. Despite whispers that the women are witches, the superstitious locals still seek them out, whether to remedy arthritis or a broken heart. But when evangelist Josiah Bellflower comes to town promising miracle healing, full bellies, and prosperity, his revivals soon hold Tin Mountain in thrall--and Granny in abject fear.
Kent, Alexander The Complete Midshipman Bolitho Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
From one of our foremost writers of naval fiction (that's a thing?). When young Richard Bolitho joins the Royal Navy, he experiences both triumph and hardship in this gripping trio of adventures. Good solid stuff that still packs a wallop.
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Fiction Book, as in the movie.
Khong, Rachel Goodbye, Vitamin Fiction Suggested By: Book Award List.
From list of books that you can read in one sitting. Her life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary voice. Freshly disengaged from her fiance; and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father's condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief.
Kidd, Sue Monk The Invention of Wings Fiction Inspired by the true story of early-nineteenth-century abolitionist and suffragist Sarah Grimké, Kidd paints a moving portrait of two women inextricably linked by the horrors of slavery.
Kiernan, Stephen P. The Curiosity Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. Remarkably, the frozen man is brought back to the lab and successfully reanimated.
King, Lily Writers & Lovers Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.
King, Stephen Elevatation Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
Castle Rock, but make it happier. This novella returns to the iconic fictional town to bring the community together as they really behind a neighbor plagued by a mysterious disease.
King, Stephen Elevation Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Bickering between neighbors and town-wide bigotry infest Castle Rock, one of Stephen King's favorite fictional Maine hamlets, until a resident with a mystical ailment begins spreading exuberance and kindness, side effects of his unusual affliction. Somber, sweet novella.
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams Fiction Suggested By: Author.
At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. Kingsolver draws heavily on Arizona's Native American and Hispanic cultures.
Kingsolver, Barbara Demon Copperhead Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West.
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.23 Kindle book. A profoundly affecting story of Africa's mysterious ways, and God's. Missionary pastor tries to speak the native language but has unfortunate mispronounciations. At Poisonwood'd center is the evil that can flourish when arrogance is cloaked in righteousness.
Kinsey, Leonard Habst and the Disney Saboteurs Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Free Kindle book. Someone is sabotaging rides at Walt Disney World, and Habst is the prime suspect. He has three days to track down the real saboteurs, or he'll be thrown in the slammer... for life!
Kipling, Rudyard The Man Who Would Be King Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Free Kindle book. A British journalist meets two interesting adventurers in India ruing their plan of blackmailing a Rajah. They return to him several months later asking for maps and books of the area. They have a new quest in mind now: to become kings in the remote Afghanistan and rule over a unified nation.
Kirn, Walter Mission to America Fiction Two mormans decend from their Montana mountaintop to find new blood for the gene pool. The barbs are spot-on and the apostles, with their naivete about everything from Cheetos to Wiccans to reality TV, are hopelessly endearing.
Kirn, Walter Up in the Air Fiction Sharp and funny, protagonist Ryan Bingham is written with first-person, stream-of-consciousness narration about his frequent-flier exploits. Adapted by Jason Reitman for the George Clooney movie.
Kirshenbaum, Binnie Rabbits for Food Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
This book achieves absolute genius. In this NPR Best Book of 2019, a writer sets out to document the lives of other patients during her stay at a psychiatric hospital. Bitingly funny, and occasionally heartbreaking.
Knowles, John A Separate Peace Fiction Classic novel of friendship and lost innocence. Two roommates at New England's Devon School in the summer of 1942.
Korelitz, Jean Hanff Admission Fiction With acceptance rates at Ivy League schools now impossibily low, this timely novel written by a former "reader" of personal essays at Princeton has built-in appeal for anyone seeking insight about the ferocious competition. Well-researched insider tidbits.
Korman, Gordon Ungifted Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A hilarious and heartfelt novel in which one middle-school troublemaker accidentally moves into the gifted and talented program - and changes everything. Funny and touching underdog story. A lovable and goofy adventure filled with robot fights, middle-school dances, live experiments, and more.
Krause, Suzy Valencia and Valentine Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Debut author Suzy Krause delivers a quirky, colorful story about love, loss, second chances, and what it means to truly live. Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her the most are flying and turning thirty-five. Her therapist advises her to confront those fears.
Kring, Sandra The Book of Bright Ideas Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
For fans of Fannie Flagg: In 1961, nine-year-old Button befriends whimsical Winnalee, and the two search for secrets to add to Winnalee's Book of Bright Ideas. But when a devastating truth comes to light, their lives will change forever.
Kroese, Robert Monday Morning in the Mailroom of Good and Evil Fiction Suggested By: Other.
$.99 Kindle book. I think I started this and was underwhelmed.
Kyle, Aryn The God of Animals Fiction Alice and her overworked father are trying desperately to hold on to the family's small-town Colorado horse ranch. This debut delivers all the fun of the book about horses you loved as a kid - but with the added weight and seriousness of a novel for grown-ups.
La Plante, Lynda Above Suspicion Fiction A mystery to devour this novel starring Anna Travis, the clever daughter of a former London police chief.
LaCour, Nina Everything Leads to You Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
After being entrusted with her brother's Los Angeles apartment for the summer as a graduation gift, Emi Price isn't sure how to fulfill his one condition: that something great take place while he's gone. Emi may be a talented young production designer, already beginning to thrive in the competitive film industry but...
Lamb, Wally The Hour I First Believed Fiction Suggested By: Author.
When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. When Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.
Lamb, Wally Wishin' and Hopin' Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.14 Kindle book.
Lamott, Annie All New People Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A novel of rare sensitivity and evocative power. Following her divorce, Nan Goodman returns to the coastal California town of her childhood - and makes peace with her past.
Lancaster, Craig The Fallow Season Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$.99 Kindle book. From the bestselling author of 600 Hours of Edward comes the story of two small-town characters whose fates are inextricably linked.
Lancaster, Jen If You Were Here Fiction Mia's obsessed with Abington Cambs, the setting of many John Hughes movies. She buys Sixteen Candle's character Jake Ryan's house, despite its major flaws. Witty and hilarious, even for non-Hughes fanatics.
Lanchester, John Capital Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
From a New York Times bestselling author...following a broad swath of Londoners on a single street as they grapple with cultural and economic upheaval. Full of spectacular comedy and menace. Big, vivid, complicated portrait of London. Convincing and entertaining look at modern life in urban Britain.
Lane, Rose Wilder Free Land Fiction Suggested By: Author.
In the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to claim three hundred acres of grassland. Rose Wilder Lane tells of their struggle to survive with such force that Free Land has become a classic frontier novel. The young couple experience cyclones, droughts, and blizzards that isolate them for days in their sod shanty and endanger their livestock. The simple pleasures of home cooking, horse trading, and socializing interrupt work, here described in its wealth of variety. In every detail, Free Land comes to life because Lane grew up in the time and place of which she writes. The book embodies her belief that "living is never easy, that all human history is a record of achievement in disaster, and that our great asset is the valor of the American spirit." Like the Beatons of this novel, Rose Wilder Lane's parents homesteaded in Dakota. Lane was a successful novelist and journalist when, in the 1930s, she encouraged and helped her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, to write the Little House on the Prairie books that were later dramatized for television.
Langer, Adam Crossing California Fiction Five gifted teens and their clueless elders in 1979-1981 Chicago. Begins and ends with the halting romance of two awkward geniuses. Character, Michelle, steals the show: her acid tongue will dazzle you with her smarts.
Lankford, Terrill Lee Blonde Lightening Fiction Lankford shows in telling detail how a film really gets made. "Blonde" is a continuation of "Earthquake Weather", but it stands alone as testament to all the cynical, underhanded, and tragic things you think you know about Hollywood.
Lankford, Terrill Lee Earthquake Weather Fiction Lankford's, a former screenwriter-director, take on L.A. is dead-on like the "tragic" irony that "people at the very bottom of the food chain are passing judgement on what should be made into feature films."
Larison, John Whiskey When We're Dry Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah--dead or alive.
Larsen, Nella Passing Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors' Choice. Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to "pass" as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clare's risky decision to engage in racial masquerade for personal and societal gain. After frequenting African American-centric gatherings together in Harlem, Clare's interest in Irene turns into a homoerotic longing for Irene's black identity that she abandoned and can never embrace again, and she is forced to grapple with her decision to pass for white in a way that is both tragic and telling. This edition features a new introduction by Emily Bernard and notes by Thadious M. Davis.
Larson, Leslie Slipstream Fiction Over four rain-soaked weeks five downtrodden Los Angelenos, each grappling with a life-altering crisis, intersect each other's lives amid the empty bustle of LAX. Her exquisitely calibrated prose makes it clear that she knows these people to their bones.
Laurain, Antoine The Red Notebook Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Suggested by eBookDaily: Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street and feels impelled to return it to its owner. The bag contains no money, phone or contact information. But a small red notebook with handwritten thoughts and jottings reveals a person that Laurent would very much like to meet. Without even a name to go on, and only a few of her possessions to help him, how is he to find one woman in a city of millions?
Lee, Chang-Rae My Year Abroad Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
After meeting a single mom and her son at the airport, Tiller Bardmon moves in with them. They're in the Witness Protection Program, but Tiller, who lost his own mom young, has a drive to protect them that outstrips the government's. A brilliant, hilarious exploration of loyalty and betrayal.
Lee, Don The Collective Fiction Characters meet at Macalaster College! Three young artists form the Asian American Artists Collective. Heartbreaking, sex, and funny story about fractured friendships.
Lee, Harper Go Set A Watchman Fiction Sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, set 20 years later.
Lehane, Dennis Live By Night Fiction Suggested By: Author.
From the New York Times bestselling master of suspense who wrote Mystic River and Shutter Island: Set in the crime-riddled Prohibition Era, this engrossing novel chronicles one man's ascent from common criminal to bootlegger mastermind.
Lehane, Dennis The Drop Fiction Suggested By: Movie/TV.
Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith--the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.
Lehr, Leslie What a Mother Knows Fiction Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen, "I can say I've read the first chapter and it's intoxicating."
Lelic, Simon A Thousand Cuts Fiction History teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into a London secondary school assembly and opens fire, killing three students and a colleague before turning the gun on himself. Lelic takes a sadly familiar crime and delves into the equally familiar menace at its root: bullying.
Lent, Jeffrey Lost Nation Fiction Guy escaping his past wins teenage prostitute in card game.
Leonard, Elmore Tishomingo Blues Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Available as library eBook. Tishomingo Blues is a 2002 novel by Elmore Leonard, set in Mississippi, about two fledgling allies, the local Dixie Mafia, and a high-stakes Civil War re-enactment. Leonard says that Tishomingo Blues is, of the books he has written, his favorite.
Leonard, Elmore Various - Raylan Givens Series Fiction Suggested By: Movie/TV.
Raylan Givens - US Marshall first in Florida, then Kentucky. Played by Timothy Olyphant in the TV series.
  • Pronto (1993 - read 2017/04)
  • Riding the Rap (1995 - read 2018/02)
  • Fire in the Hole - short story (2001 - read 2017/04 - Kindle) Part of short story collection titled "When the women come out to dance." (2002)
  • Raylan (2012 - Kindle)
Leunens, Christine Caging Skies (Jojo Rabbit is the movie) Fiction Suggested By: Movie/TV.
Inspiration for the movie Jojo Rabbit. An avid member of the Hitler Youth in 1940s Vienna, Johannes Betzler discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa behind a false wall in their home. His initial horror turns to interest--then love and obsession. After his parents disappear, Johannes is the only one aware of Elsa's existence in the house and he alone is responsible for her fate. Drawing strength from his daydreams about Hitler, Johannes plans for the end of the war and what it might mean for him and Elsa.
Levine, Sara Treasure Island!!! Fiction Recommended by KEW in OH: When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?
Levithan, David Answers in the Pages Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it - much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters. A bold timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to ban a beloved book from the school curriculum.
Levy, Marc P.S. from Paris Fiction Suggested By: Book Award List.
From list of books that you can read in one sitting. From Marc Levy, the most-read French author alive today, comes a modern-day love story between a famous actress hiding in Paris and a bestselling writer lying to himself. They knew their friendship was going to be complicated, but love--and the City of Lights--just might find a way.
Levy, Nick This Book Belongs To Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Unsatisfied with her stifling life in New York City, Ellie quits her job and books a ticket to South America. Upon discovering a guidebook filled with intriguing notes at her hostel, she sets out to follow the previous owner's advice - and embarks on a life-changing adventure.
Lewis, Sinclair It Can't Happen Here Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Available as library eBook. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press.
Lileks, James Falling Up the Stairs Fiction The Regrettable Food guy.
Lileks, James Mr. Obvious Fiction The Regrettable Food guy.
Lipman, Eilnor Good Riddance Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Charmingly snarky Daphne tossed her late mother's prized high school yearbook because it doesn't "spark joy." But when a neighbor salvages the volume, Daphne finds herself scrambling to control the story it tells. The rollicking plot ultimately yields to romance, revealing this witty story's warm and fuzzy heart.
Lipman, Elinor On Turpentine Lane Kindle Edition by Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
"[Lipman] has a way of crafting books so utterly charming that you want to set up residence inside them…On Turpentine Lane quickly becomes a friend."--Seattle Times At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It's a peaceful life, really, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiancé is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state). And never mind her witless boss, or a mother who lives too close, or a philandering father who thinks he's Chagall.
Lipman, Elinor The Inn at Lake Devine Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews; we were Jews. The Inn at Lake Devine will enchant readers with the beguiling voice, elegant charm, and deft storytelling that have been hallmarks of Elinor Lipman's previous novels and have made her beloved by her fans. Her characters sparkle on the page and delight us with their wit and grace--even when anti-Semitism rears its head in Vermont and the tables are turned in the Catskills. Elinor Lipman is the undisputed master of the art of screwball comedy.
Lipman, Elinor The Ladies' Man Fiction Man who leaves her at the altar returns to make peace.
Lipman, Elinor The Pursuit of Alice Thrift Fiction A socially inept surgical intern who stumbles into romance.
Lipman, Elinor The View from Penthouse B Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When newly widowed Gwen moves into her sister's Margot's New York apartment, they attempt to create second chances for themselves - until an unexpected arrival upends everything. Sparkles with wit.
Lippman, Laura Wilde Lake Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. As Lu prepares for the trial, the case dredges up painful memories, reminding her small but tight-knit family of the night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another man's life.
Litman, Ellen Mannequin Girl Fiction Growing up in Soviet Moscow, diagnosed with scoliosis and fitted with a brace, her oddities feel suddenly on display. Tender, bittersweet coming-of-age tale.
Littlefield, Sophie A Bad Day For Pretty Fiction The second novel featuring Stella Hardesty blends humor and southern-fried crime-solving to delicious effect.
Lively, Penelope How It All Began Fiction Suggested By: Other.
When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. Comedic drama.
Livesey, Margot The Flight of Gemma Hardy Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Inspired by Jane Eyre. A young woman searches for a new life in 1960s Scotland after her parents' tragic deaths. A delight!
Llewllyn, Richard How Green Was My Valley Fiction Welsh coal-mining family and their struggles. Feels real.
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström In Every Mirror She's Black Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Aside from her eye-twister name...The lives of three Black women from very different backgrounds are linked by their association with one influential businessman. As entertaining as it is revealing.
Lotz, Sarah Day Four Fiction Stephen King is a fan. A cruise ship is found drifting, completely empty, in this riveting story of the horrible things that happened there.
Love, Melissa Scrivner Lola Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia . . . but what no one has figured out is that the gang's real leader (and secret weapon) is Garcia's girlfriend, a brilliant young woman named Lola.
Low, Shari My One Month Marriage Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
One month into her marriage, Zoe uncovers a devastating secret - one that could shatter her relationships with her husband and her sisters. A page-turning family drama from an author whose work is great fun from start to finish (Jenny Colgan).
Ludwig, Benjamin The Truth According to Ginny Moon Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
An unforgettable page-turner. After four years in foster care, Ginny has found a family of her own. But there's something she left with her old life - and she'll embark on an unforgettable journey to retrieve it.
Lurie, Alison Foreign Affairs Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A Pulitzer Prize winner (!!) that's both witty and wonderfully stimulating. American professors Vinnie and Fred arrive in London for research projects - but both end up staying for the unexpected romances that consume their minds and hearts.
Macaulay, Rose The Towers of Trebizond Fiction Narrator accompanies Aunt Dot and Anglican cleric on mission to Turkey to convert the women to Anglicanism. Rambles on in the most lighthearted and amusing way, but with a very surprising ending.
Mackibntosh, Clare I Let You Go Fiction Suggested By: Suggested List.
Shocking plot twists, but without feeling gimmicky or manipulative. On a dark rainy night, a mother lets go of her son's hand and a devastating accident sets the plot in motion. Part police procedural, part domestic suspense, emotional roller coaster.
Mackintosh, Clare After the End Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers--unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a different future for their son.
Macomber, Debbie Twenty Wishes Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A recent widow tackles a list of 20 things she has always wanted to do - and soon discovers a life-changing friendship. Readers will find themselves rooting for the women in this hopeful story while surreptitiously wiping away tears and making their own lists of wishes.
Maguire, Gregory Wicked: Fiction The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years)
Mailer, Norman Various - Normal Mailer Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Seems like kind of a dink, but may be worth a look. Famous for the "non-fiction novel". WTF is that? Titles include, "Why Are We in Vietnam?" and "Advertisements for Myself".
Makkai, Rebecca The Borrower Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Determined to escape from his bigoted, controlling mother, precocious 10-year-old Ian Drake recruits a children's librarian for an impromptu road trip to Vermont. Smart and engaging.
Makkai, Rebecca The Hundred-Year House Fiction Allegedly haunted Chicago mansion is enticing backgrop for this gleeful tale of ghosts, vengeance, and family secrets stretching back a century. Darkly funny.
Manaster, Tracy You Could Be Home By Now Fiction The Arizona retirement community depicted in this poignant funny debut is hardly quiet. It's a hoot that will touch your heart.
Mapson, Jo-Ann Along Came Mary Fiction House full of self-pitying women sounds unpleasant but their travails are surprisingly uplifting. Sequel to Bad Girl Creek.
Markley, Stephen Ohio Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Four very different former classmates return to their hometown on the same night - where their stories collide in a shocking act.
Markoe, Meryl and Andy Prieboy The Psycho Ex Game Fiction L.A. hipster characters, tales of twisted love and whip-smart wisecracks will keep you glued to your beach chair. Noone of either gender understands anyone else (or themselves for that matter), and whenever someone tries to read between the lines all hell breaks loose.
Marlantes, Karl Matterhorn Fiction Suggested By: Unknown.
Marlantes has finally published his sweeping narrative of the Vietnam war and the ravages it inflicts on the soldiers who fight it. A grunts-eye view of one battle for one hill during 1969 in Vietnam.
Marquis, Christopher A Hole in the Heart Fiction Bean Jessup flees postcollege life in San Francisco for the wilds of Alaska. Most ignore her cuz she hasn't lasted 5 winters, but she marries Mick who dies in a climbing accident and she makes a journey from passivity to independence.
Marsch, Cindy Rinaman Blizzard: A Story of Dakota Territory Fiction Suggested By: Other.
Free Kindle book. A homesteading farmer, his pregnant wife, their daughter, and the grandmother wake to a beautiful winter morning on the prairie. And then it descends upon them - the infamous Children's Blizzard of 1888. Who will survive?
Marshall, Leslie A Girl Could Stand Up Fiction Elray Mayhew's parents are killed so she is raised by footloose photographer uncle and cross-dressing uncle. Coming-of-age story that will disarm and charm.
Martel, Yann Life of Pi Fiction Boy is trapped on lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 200 days.
Martin, Alexa Intercepted Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
African American Interest. An NPR Best Book of 2018: After a painful breakup, Marlee Harper is done dating football players -- but superstar quarterback Gavin Pope is determined to change her mind! "A witty rom-com set in the world of professional football players and their wives" (Entertainment Weekly).
Martin, Steve An Object of Beauty Fiction A southern vision names Lacy sidles into the New York art world. Martin demonstrates an understanding about users and losers that approaches the profound.
Martin, Steve The Pleasure of My Company Fiction Martin riddles us with OCD gags, then settles into a sweet, symmetrical story of love and 'the quiet heart.'
Martin, Valerie Property Fiction Story of the struggle of two women against a brutish plantation owner and each other. One the wife, one the slave maid.
Martinez, Victor Parrot in the Oven Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
In this National Book Award winner, Manuel navigates the challenges of growing up amid poverty and discrimination in his California neighborhood. "A rare and consummately believable portrait of barrio life."
Mason, Meg Sorrow and Bliss Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Martha Friel, the narrator of this improbably charming novel about mental illness, will have you chortling and reading lines aloud. Martha is almost 40, and nothing - not the love of her husband, not a parade of doctors and meds - has ever stopped the pain. Fortunately, that's just the beginning of this story.
Mathieu, Jennifer Moxie Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Fed up with the sexism in her life, Vivian creates a feminist magazine to vent her frustrations - and upends her sheltered Texas hometown.
Maum, Courtney I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Follow Richard and his wife, Anne, as they face the ultimate hurdle — and fight to fall in love all over again. “Funny and soulful” (The Wall Street Journal).
Mayes, Frances Women in Sunlight Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Three women meet at a retirement community. They decide to rent a villa in Tuscany. Mayes' writing about Italy is the next best thing to a plane ticket.
Maynard, Joyce Under the Influence Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Suggested by Joshilyn Jackson. When she meets Ava and Swift Havilland, the vulnerable Helen is instantly enchanted. Wealthy, connected philanthropists, they have their own charity devoted to rescuing dogs. Their home is filled with fabulous friends, edgy art, and dazzling parties. When Helen meets Elliott, a kind, quiet accountant who offers loyalty and love with none of her newfound friends' fireworks. To Swift and Ava, he's boring. But even worse than that, he's unimpressed by them.
Mbue, Imbolo Behold the Dreamers Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
An Oprah's Book Club selection! This "warm and captivating" read (People) follows an immigrant family propelled into the sphere of New York's elite when they secure work with the wealthy Edwardses. "One of those rare novels that will change the way you see the world" (Christina Baker Kline).
McBride, James The Good Lord Bird Fiction Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag.
Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
McCabe, Erin Lindsay I Shall Be Near You Fiction “A book that might be for the ages” (Pat Conroy). Disguised as a man, Rosetta Wakefield follows her husband into the line of fire as a Union soldier. A breathtaking illumination of the perils of war and “a shining story of enduring love”
McCall Smith, Alexander The Careful Use of Compliments Fiction Edinburgh sleuth and philosophy journal editor, Isabel Dalhousie, wonders why two brand-new paintings by a dead Scottish artist have suddenly come on the market.
McCarthy, Cormac All the Pretty Horses Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
A young man sets out on a life-changing journey. One of the great American novels.
McCarthy, Mary Various - Mary McCarthy Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Mary McCarthy was born in 1912. She and her three brothers were orphaned when their parents died in 1918 during the flu epidemic. They were raised, in very unhappy circumstances, by their paternal grandparents in Minneapolis MN. When the situation became intolerable, Mary moved to live with her maternal grandparents and her brothers went to boarding school. Ms McCarthy credits her maternal grandparents for her liberal political views.
McCormack, Mike Solar Bones Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
An NPR best book of 2017 that was longlisted for the Booker Prize. On All Souls Day in rural Ireland, recently deceased Marcus looks back on his life, reflecting on the family, work, and historic events that shaped him. A transcendent novel.
McCracken, Elizabeth Bowlaway Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
I dunno about this one. Does it sound interesting or kinda boring? Middle-aged, audacious and enigmatic. Bertha Truitt appears from nowhere one day, asleep in a cemetery in Salford, Mass., and claims to have invented candlepin bowling (WTF?). The dazzling alley she builds remains the town's constant for nearly a century. Another original from McCracken (The Giant's House), stuffed with eccentrics, rich language, and surprises.
McCracken, Elizabeth The Giant's House Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt– the "over-tall" eleven-year-old boy who's the talk of the town–walks into her library and changes her life forever. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless they soon find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. Reminiscent of The Accidental Tourist or The World According to Garp.
McCullers, Carson The Member of the Wedding Fiction One of Elizabeth Berg's favorites. McCullers patented the Southern gothic genre that embraces grotesque, morbid characters with such pervading themes as unrequited love and wounded adolescence. Largely set in the South and richly autobiographical, her writings have endured because of their great power and originality.
McCullough, Colleen Bittersweet Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Following four Australian sisters - two sets of twins - with wildly different ambitions. Unforgettable novel.
McDaniel, Tiffany Betty Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
As Betty grows up among seven siblings in a small Appalachian foothill town, she survives hardships through her Cherokee father's stories - and her own. This book will break your heart open, in the best way.
McDermott, Alice The Ninth Hour Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
A powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove...something...to the subway bosses who recently fired him.
McEwan, Ian Atonement Fiction Nat'l Book Critic Award. Might be stuffy?
McFadden, Bernice Gathering of Waters Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi--a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families.Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit. Forty years later, after the death of her husband, Tass returns to Money and fantasy takes flesh when Emmett Till's spirit is finally released from the dank, dark waters of the Tallahatchie River. The two lovers are reunited, bringing the story to an enchanting and profound conclusion.
McGee, Katharine The Thousandth Floor Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Sci-fi? YA? Chicklit? New York City as you've never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible--if you want it enough. Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Big Little Lies, debut author Katharine McGee has created a breathtakingly original series filled with high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, where the impossible feels just within reach. But in this world, the higher you go, the farther there is to fall….
McKenna, Christina The Disenchanted Widow Fiction Suggested By: Other.
$2.15 Kindle book. It's 1981 and Belfast is burning. Freshly widowed Bessie Halstone: she burns with a desire to break with her troubled past. With her feckless husband gone, she leaves home hurriedly with her naughty nine-year-old son, Herkie, and not much else. The Dentist, an IRA enforcer, is on her tail.
McKenzie, Elizabeth The Portable Veblen Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
I have mixed feelings about this one - an Amazon reviewer described (in part) as being like Natalie Portman's character in Garden State, and that movie wasn't great. The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now.
McLain, Paula The Paris Wife Fiction Suggested By: Unknown.
McLain has taken Hemingway's love story, partly told by Hemingway himself in A Moveable Feast and fashioned a novel that's impossible to resist.
McMurtry, Larry Telegraph Days Fiction Nellie may not be McMurtry's most original character to date, but the author delivers a raucous saucy look back at the West he loves so well.
McMurtry, Larry The Last Kind Words Saloon Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Available as library ebook. A "comically subversive" New York Times bestseller (Joyce Carol Oates) by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author: Cowboys Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday traverse the American frontier as it closes, encountering myths and legends along the way. "Moseying along with McMurtry is always worthwhile".
McMurtry, Larry The Last Picture Show Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.14 Kindle book.
McMurtry, Larry The Wandering Hill Fiction Part 2 of a 4 part saga of the Berrybender family. Apparently, not his best story.
McMurtry, Larry Various - Houston Series Fiction Suggested By: Author.
  1. Moving On (1970 - read 2003/09, 2021/06, Kindle)
  2. All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers (1972 - read 2021/04)
  3. Terms Of Endearment (1975 - read 2021/07)
  4. Somebody's Darling (1978 - read 2021/09, Kindle)
  5. Some Can Whistle
  6. The Evening Star
McMurtry, Larry Various - Lonesome Dove Series Fiction Suggested By: Author.
  1. Lonesome Dove
  2. Streets of Laredo
  3. Dead Man's Walk
  4. Comanche Moon
McMurtry, Larry Various - Thalia Series Fiction Suggested By: Author.
  1. Horseman, Pass By (1961, read 2021/06)
  2. Leaving Cheyenne (1963, read 2021/04)
  3. The Last Picture Show (1966, Kindle)
McMurtry, Larry Various - The Last Picture Show Series (Duane) Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Thalia, Texas is a fictional town, the setting for five novels by Larry McMurtry:
  1. The Last Picture Show (1966, Kindle)
  2. Texasville (1987 - read 2000/09)
  3. Duane's Depressed (1999 - read 1999/05)
  4. When the Light Goes (2007 - read 2007/03)
  5. Rhino Ranch (2009 - read 2017/10, Kindle)
Mejia, Mindy Everything You Want Me To Be Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
A talented young girl set on ditching Minnesota for New York is murdered. Del the local sheriff sets out to find her killer. Time-shifting novel. Well-drawn protagonist brings the rural community alive and imbues the narrative with delightful dry humor.
Meno, Joe Hairstyles of the Damned Fiction Book plays like "High Fidelity" for the safety-pins-and-Mohawks set. Meno examines the schisms in high school society - the D&D geeks, bullying meatheads, teen queens, and brutal skinheads. Captures both the sweetness and sting of adolescence with unflinching honesty.
Messud, Claire The Burning Girl Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
Two girls were inseparable, but in middle school Cassie gravitates toward drinking and trouble. The friendship fractures, quietly breaking Julia's heart. In pared-down aching prose, Messud reminds us that no one sheds girlhood's tender skin without getting hurt.
Meyerson, Amy The Bookshop of Yesterdays Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric Uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda's life. She doesn't hear from him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy--and one final scavenger hunt.
Michener, James A. Alaska Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.14 Kindle book. In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Alaska's fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the bustling present. As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska's story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II.
Michener, James A. Centennial Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
$3.23 Kindle book. Centennial traces the history of the plains of northeast Colorado from prehistory until the early 1970s. Geographic details about the fictional town of Centennial and its surroundings indicate that the region is in modern-day Weld County.
Michener, James A. Chesapeake Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$2.14 Kindle book. James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America's Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age.
Michener, James A. Journey Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.23 Kindle book. This was originally part of the novel Alaska but got excerpted as its own book. One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures thousands of dreamers from all walks of life on a perilous trek toward fortune, failure--or death. Journey is an immersive account of the adventures of four English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they haul across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike gold fields. Vivid and sweeping, featuring Michener's probing insights into the follies and grandeur of the human spirit, this is the kind of novel only he could write.
Michener, James A. Return to Paradise Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
An enchanting collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hawaii: The islands of the South Pacific come alive with adventure. Sequel to Tales of the South Pacific.
Michener, James A. Space Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
$3.23 Kindle book. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women--people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort; Norman Grant, the war hero and U.S. senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation, but to the heavens; Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who once worked for the Nazis; Randy Claggett, the astronaut who meets his destiny on a mission to the far side of the moon; and Cynthia Rhee, the reporter whose determined crusade brings their story to a breathless world.
Michener, James A. The Drifters Fiction Suggested By: Author.
$3.23 Kindle book. ames A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dreams, shocking tribulations, and heartwarming bonds of six young runaways cast adrift in the world--as well as the hedonistic pursuit of drugs and pleasure that collapses all around them.
Midwood, Ellie The White Rose Network Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
1942, Germany: "I won't be able to live if anything happens to you," she whispered into his ear as they said goodbye, not knowing if they would ever see each other again. The White Rose Network brings to life the incredible true story of Sophie Scholl - one of history's bravest women - who risked everything to lead a revolution against darkness.
Min, Anchee Empress Orchid Fiction Based on the true story of the 17-year-old who traded poverty for the ornate confines of the emperor's Forbidden City guarded by 2,000 eunuchs.
Mina, Denise Blood, Salt, Water Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
As Det. Alex Morrow uncovers layers of deception among the thugs, white-collar crooks, and battle-weary cops inhabiting one seemingly genteel Scottish town, you'll find yourself hooked.
Mitchell, David Ghostwritten Fiction U.K. chronicle of nine lives converging in an unexpected way.
Mitchell, Judith Claire A Reunion of Ghosts Fiction Their great-grandfather's inventions led to mass killings in two world wars. It's hardly an amusing premise, but Mitchell explores the mixed-blessing bonds of family with a dry wit. Original black comedy at its best.
Mitchell, Margaret Gone With The Wind Fiction Gone With the Wind, people!
Mitchell, W.O. Roses Are Difficult Here Fiction Psychologist visits a small town and turns it upside down. It's a comedy, so things end up better than they started. Kooky characters. Light reading. From the Graham Green library poster.
Mitford, Nancy Don't Tell Alfred Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Looks like this is actually book three of a series. In this delightful comedy, Fanny--the quietly observant narrator of Nancy Mitford's two most famous novels--finally takes center stage. Fanny Wincham--last seen as a young woman in The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate--has lived contentedly for years as housewife to an absent-minded Oxford don, Alfred. But her life changes overnight when her beloved Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris. Soon she finds herself mixing with royalty and Rothschilds while battling her hysterical predecessor, Lady Leone, who refuses to leave the premises. When Fanny's tender-hearted secretary begins filling the embassy with rescued animals and her teenage sons run away from Eton and show up with a rock star in tow, things get entirely out of hand. Gleefully sending up the antics of mid-century high society, Don't Tell Alfred is classic Mitford.
Mitford, Nancy The Pursuit of Love Fiction Few aristocratic English families of the 20th century have enjoyed quite the delicious notoriety that the Mitford sisters courted in the years bracketed by two world wars. Nancy composed maliciously witty--and transparently autobiographical--novels as well as several biographies. The Pursuit of Love (1945), her greatest fictional success, and its companion, Love in a Cold Climate (1949), keep closely to the spirit (and details) of their youthful amusements and more grown-up adventures.
Moggach, Deborah The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Fiction Suggested By: Author.
Recommended on list posted by Elizabeth Berg. Needing a place to send his difficult father-in-law, Ravi Kapoor is relieved to discover his cousin has set up a retirement home in India. The ad promises luxury living at an affordable price, which attracts a slew of British senior citizens eager to take advantage of its amenities. However, upon arrival they soon realize the renovations are on hold, leaving them without even the most basic of necessities like water and electricity. But despite the unfortunate accommodations, this cast of quirky characters quickly find plenty of adventure, friendships, and discoveries. This absolute delight of a novel will leave you smiling and craving a trip to The Marigold Hotel.
Moody, Rick The Ice Storm Fiction Sex in repressed suburbia? Book on which the movie is based?
Mooney, Dan The Great Unexpected Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
Joel lives in a nursing home, and he's not one bit happy about it. He hates being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. He's fed up with life and begins to plan a way out when his new roommate, a retired soap opera actor named Frank, moves in and turns the nursing-home community upside down.
Moore, Christopher Various - Christopher Moore Fiction Suggested By: Author.
  • Practical Demonkeeping (1992, Kindle)
  • Coyote Blue (1994 - read 2000/05)
  • Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story BOOK 1/3 (1995 - read 2000/06, Kindle)
  • Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997, Kindle)
  • The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (1999 - read 2000/04)
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002 - read 2007/06, Kindle)
  • Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003 - read 2007/04, Kindle)
  • The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (2004 - read 2008/06)
  • The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, v. 2.0 (2005, Kindle)
  • A Dirty Job (2006 - read 2008/06 Kindle)
  • You Suck: A Love Story BOOK 2/3 (2007 - read 2008/06, Kindle)
  • Fool (2009 - read 2009/05, bought on Kindle)
  • Bite Me: A Love Story BOOK 3/3 (2010, Kindle)
  • Sacré Bleu (2012 - read 2012/06)
  • The Serpent of Venice (2014 - not read, but bought on Kindle)
  • Secondhand Souls SEQUEL TO A DIRTY JOB (2015 - read 2015/11)
  • Noir (2018)
  • Shakespeare for Squirrels (2020)
  • Razzmatazz (2022 follow up to Noir)
Moore, Edward Kelsey The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat Fiction Suggested By: eBookDaily.com.
This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed "The Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they've weathered life's storms for over four decades and counseled one another through marriage and children, happiness and the blues. Now, however, they're about to face their most challenging year yet.
Moore, Lorrie Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Fiction Two friends in NY the 1970s rescue frogs shot by boys with BB guns. Gorgeously written novel, profoundly affecting.
Moore, Meg Mitchell The Captain's Daughter Fiction Suggested By: People Mag.
When her lobsterman dad is injured in a boating accident, Eliza - who feels like a fraud in her fancy adult life - returns to the coastal town she once fled. Don't miss this heartfelt story about paths not taken.
Moran, Beth We Belong Together Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
When Eleanor needs out of London, she heads to her best friend's family farm. But the farm is in disrepair - and occupied by her friend's grieving brother, Daniel, and her orphaned infant daughter. Can Eleanor help them all find a second chance at happiness?
Moran, Caitlin How to Build a Girl Fiction Wonderfully wise and flat-out hilarious. Johanna is 14, British, overweight and obsessed equally with losing her virginity and earning money for the dirt-poor family whom she adores.
Morgan, Fidelis The Rival Queens Fiction Morgan speaks fluent 17th century English. She knows what the streets smelled like, what people snacked on, and how they flirted and argued and bragged and bullied and showed off.
Morrey, Beth Delphine Jones Takes a Chance Fiction Suggested By: BookBub.com.
What a fun read! When single mom Delphine gets the chance to finish school, she reconnects with her passions and finds her world opening up. Can she find the courage to embrace new possibilities? Uplifting, charming, and quirky. Will appeal to fans of Jenny Colgan.
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