Add These Books to Your Must-Read List
We read (and read) until we found the books worthy of your time.
No matter what mood you're in, we have a page-turner to tempt you.
To Move You
And the Dark Sacred Night
By Julia Glass
This powerful family portrait opens with Kit, an unemployed father of two, on a mission to uncover his biological dad's identity. His digging disrupts the lives of friends and strangers, but it just might save his marriage.
To Grip You
Love & Treasure
By Ayelet Waldman
In 1945, Lt. Jack Wiseman guards a stash of Nazi-confiscated valuables; years later, he gives his newly divorced granddaughter, Natalie, a pendant and asks her to track down its rightful owner. Will the quest also heal her heart?
To Inspire You
New Life, No Instructions
By Gail Caldwell
"What do you do when the story changes in midlife?" asks this Pulitzer-winning journalist after surgery to correct a limp (from polio) gives her a new perspective on the world. Eloquent and uplifting.
To Charm You
Casebook
By Mona Simpson
With best bud Hector, Miles plays amateur spy in a touching tale of teens trying to make sense of their parents' marriages and divorces. But tapping telephones and intercepting notes just might lead to more than the boys can handle.
For Intrigue
Savage Girl
By Jean Zimmerman
A wealthy couple touring the American West in 1875 "rescue" a young woman who's said to have been raised by wolves, then attempt to introduce her into society back East. Bronwyn cleans up nicely, but her suitors keep ending up dead. A wild ride.
For a Lift
Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening
By Carol Wall
In this lovely memoir, a surprising friendship blossoms between a horticulturist with a harrowing secret and the author, a cancer survivor with a bad attitude and a sad yard. A perfect spring awakening.
For Suspense
The Headmaster's Wife
By Thomas Christopher Greene
Greene's haunting tale tracks the unraveling of a marriage. It starts, eerily, with a naked man's arrest in New York City's Central Park, then twists back in time through love, grief, betrayal, and love again.
For Drama
Safe With Me
By Amy Hatvany
Hannah loses her daughter in an accident, but is able to save the life of another teenage girl through organ donation. So begins a stirring portrait of two moms, linked by tragedy, who rescue each other in more ways than one.
To Enchant You
The Swan Gondola
By Timothy Schaffert
A ventriloquist falls for a Marie Antoinette impersonator at the 1898 Omaha World's Fair. The backdrop for his pursuit — aerialist acts, midnight séances — only adds charm to this mythical slice of Americana.
For a Hair-Raiser
Ripper
By Isabel Allende
Known for her "magic realist" fables, Allende steps into a new genre — hard-boiled crime — with this tale of a 17-year-old who helps her police-chief father track a serial killer. In short order, her mom vanishes, upping the stakes.
To Warm You
Lydia's Party
By Margaret Hawkins
Seven longtime friends are gathering for their annual winter repast, but hostess Lydia's news brings a bittersweet edge to their usual noshing, drinking, and commiserating. A tender and clear-eyed look at the tangles in women's lives.
To Absorb You
Wake
By Anna Hope
Three women in 1920s London seek (and find) solace after the war: a dance-hall girl with a shell-shocked brother, a socialite who lost her fiancé, and a mother plagued by visions of her MIA son. A poignant debut sure to snag Downton Abbey and Atonement fans.
For Suspense
Tatiana
By Martin Cruz Smith
Author Smith (Gorky Park) stretches the boundaries of the post-Soviet thriller in his latest, based on an actual Russian reporter who died in a suspicious "suicide." The investigation leads Detective Renko into the heart of all-too-real corruption.
For Family Intrigue
Priscilla
By Nicholas Shakespeare
Curious to unravel his glamorous aunt's life in wartime France, the author gets more than he bargained for when he opens a trunkful of her diaries: It appears that she fraternized with the enemy.
For Mystery
Alena
By Rachel Pastan
This artful take on du Maurier's gothic classic Rebecca has its own surprise twists. One is its heroine, who works at a New England museum, but finds she can't compete with its charismatic former curator, who died by drowning — or did she?
For Romance
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
By Nancy Horan
In 1876, Robert Louis Stevenson's heart was stolen by Fanny Osbourne, a divorcée 10 years older (oh, the scandal!). Horan's novel portrays the adventurous couple, stoking an old debate: Was Fanny crucial to RLS's literary success?
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