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American dirt by Jeanine CumminsSelling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
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Anxious people : a novel by Fredrik BackmanTaken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits.
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The book of longings by Sue Monk KiddA first-century intellectual fights the limitations imposed on women before an encounter with an 18-year-old Jesus leads to their marriage, his dangerous public ministry and her flight to safety in Alexandria. By the author of The Invention of Wings.
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Circe : a novel by Madeline MillerA highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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The Dutch house : a novel by Ann PatchettA tale set over the course of five decades traces a young mans rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family's lavish Philadelphia estate. By the award-winning author of Commonwealth.
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The exiles : a novel by Christina Baker KlineSent to a Tasmanian penal colony after conceiving her employers grandchild, a young governess befriends a talented midwife and an orphaned Aboriginal chiefs daughter while confronting the harsh realities of British colonialism and oppression in 19th-century Australia.
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The four winds by Kristin HannahA Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
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In five years : a novel by Rebecca SerleAn ambitious young lawyer on the brink of having it all disregards a vivid dream about how different her life will be in five years, before meeting the man in her vision nearly five years later.
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The indigo girl : a novel
by Natasha Boyd
The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves--teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read
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The last thing he told me : a novel by Laura DaveAfter her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn’t who he said he was and that his 16-year-old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity.
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The library book by Susan OrleanThe acclaimed best-selling author of ""Rin Tin Tin"" and ""The Orchid Thief"" reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—our libraries.
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The Lincoln highway
by Amor Towles
In June of 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson, released after serving 15 months for involuntary manslaughter, discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car and have hatched a different plan for Emmett’s future.
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The lost apothecary by Sarah PennerSecretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.
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The midnight library
by Matt Haig
A new novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. By the internationally best-selling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time
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The night watchman : a novel by Louise ErdrichA historical novel based on the life of the National Book Award-winning authors grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.
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Normal people : a novel
by Sally Rooney
The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but self-destructive.
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The only woman in the room
by Marie Benedict
A beautiful woman escapes her Austrian arms-dealer husband to become Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr while hiding a secret double life as a Jewish scientist and sharing vital information about the Third Reich. By the author of The Other Einstein.
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The personal librarian
by Marie Benedict
Hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library, Belle de Costa Greene becomes one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she keeps.
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The rose code : a novel by Kate QuinnJoining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda against a backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
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The vanishing half
by Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
by Therese Fowler
Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, a formerly impoverished Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking. By the New York Times best-selling author of Z.
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Wish you were here : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Diana O'Toole finds things going off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in the Galápagos due to the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing her to reevaluate herself and her life when she makes a connection with a local family
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