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Adult Services Staff Picks May 2026 |
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Arsenic and Adobo
by Mia P. Manansala
Recommended by: Lori
Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, Lila Macapagal is shocked when her ex-boyfriend, a notoriously nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a confrontation, leaving her the only suspect.
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The Beheading Game
by Rebecca Lehmann
Recommended by: Grace
When Anne Boleyn wakes up the day after her beheading, she sews her head back on and sets out to seek revenge-in a queer-feminist retelling of one of history's most egregiously wronged women.
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The Enchanted April
by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Recommended by: Cathy
Four very diverse women, all seeking revitalization from the dreary February rains of 1920s London, rent the small medieval castle of San Salvatore, nestled high above the bay of Portofino, Italy.
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Hemlock & Silver
by T. Kingfisher
Recommended by: Brandee
Healer Anja regularly drinks poison. Not to die, but to save—seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on. But a summons from the King interrupts her quiet, herb-obsessed life. His daughter, Snow, is dying, and he hopes Anja’s unorthodox methods can save her. Aided by a taciturn guard, a narcissistic cat, and a passion for the scientific method, Anja rushes to treat Snow, but nothing seems to work. That is, until she finds a secret world, hidden inside a magic mirror. This dark realm may hold the key to what is making Snow sick. Or it might be the thing that kills them all.
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Lady Tremaine
by Rachel Hochhauser
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
Meet Lady Tremaine in this spellbinding reimagining of Cinderella, as told by its iconic evil stepmother, revealing a propulsive love story about the lengths a mother will go for her children.
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Like This, But Funnier
by Hallie Cantor
Recommended by: Laura
For fans of Dolly Alderton and HBO's Hacks, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about faking it (and making it) as a writer in Hollywood.
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The Red Winter
by Cameron Sullivan
Recommended by: Rachel
A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.
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The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich
Recommended by: Sarah V.
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents this unusual novel in which a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer.
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This Book Made Me Think of You
by Libby Page
Recommended by: Joanna
Tilly Nightingale is stunned to learn her late husband left her a birthday gift: twelve books, one for each month, to help her through her first year without him. With help from Alfie, the kind bookshop owner, Tilly begins a reading-inspired journey of healing. As she vlogs her adventures and connects with others, her story becomes bigger than she imagined. Can a year of books help her turn the page and learn to love again?
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We Burned So Bright
by Tj Klune
Recommended by: Julia
Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they've experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world. Now, the world is ending for real. A rogue black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they've ever known will be gone. Suddenly, after 40 years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They're in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it's all over.
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The Book of Delights
by Ross Gay
Recommended by: Sarah R.
A wide-ranging collection of short essays on the things which delighted the author over the course of one year. Gay combines gorgeous writing with a great sense of humor, and even as he chooses to focus on joy he refuses to ignore the difficult complexities of being human. These essays did, in fact, delight me and encouraged me to notice delights in my own life.
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