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Most Requested BooksJuly 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most requested books in Marin. |
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Contrapposto by Dave Eggers From their first scandalous playground collaboration as Midwestern grade‑schoolers to decades spent side by side and apart in studios, galleries and far‑flung cities, artist Cricket Dib and the dazzling Olympia Argyros build a tangled life of friendship, rivalry and uneasy love, their shifting bond testing how long two people can sustain a shared devotion to making art while weathering changing desires, fashions, illnesses and the unpredictable demands of the art world.
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The Hill by Harriet Clark Raised by a grandmother who refuses to visit the hilltop prison where her radical mother is serving life for a failed bank robbery, Suzanna spends her Saturdays in the visiting room nursery among guards, nuns and other children dressed for an outing, growing up between communist cocktail debates at home and the quiet routines of incarceration, and as she vows to return to the hill even while her mother urges her toward freedom, she comes to see how punishment and loyalty shape three generations of her family.
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A Pair of Aces by Marie Benedict In 1930s New York, Eunice Carter, the city’s first Black woman prosecutor, pursues mob boss Lucky Luciano through his control of prostitution rather than his better-known rackets, while madam Polly Adler, angered by the danger he brings to her women, secretly agrees to help build a case, and together they rely on a quiet network of women to gather testimony that will test the power of both the underworld and the courts.
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Alan Opts Out by Courtney Maum After an anarchist farmer derails the high-stakes dairy campaign that was meant to cement his advertising career, Alan Anderson abruptly decides he is done selling people things they do not need and retreats to the backyard playhouse of his upscale Connecticut home to “live off the land”, a midlife revolt that horrifies his status-conscious wife Vivian, unnerves their two daughters and quietly tempts their neighbors to question what success, comfort and wanting less might actually look like.
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Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn Born while his Weather Underground parents were living as fugitives and his mother was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, Zayd Ayers Dohrn later combed interviews and declassified files and family papers to trace their years in hiding, the group’s bombings and ties to the Black Liberation Army, the breakout of Assata Shakur and the lasting emotional fallout for victims, activists and children raised inside a struggle that made home both refuge and risk.
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The Fire Agent by David Baerwald Born into an aristocratic German Jewish family at the turn of the twentieth century, gifted linguist and musician Ernst Baerwald is recruited to spy under cover of a job with a growing chemical firm, and over the decades that follow - moving from Frankfurt to Milan to Tokyo, entangled with the Yakuza, hosting artists, falling in love with two women and watching fascism take hold in both Germany and Japan - he is pushed toward an unbearable decision between aiding the country he cherishes and resisting the brutal project he can no longer ignore.
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Blunt Instrument by Amy Bloom When a crotchety Cromwell University lecturer is found bludgeoned to death with a bronze bust of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the campus turns to a former English professor quietly reinvented as a private investigator to sort through feuding colleagues, departmental grudges and her own uneasy history with academia, and as she works the case in hopes of resolving it before police and press descend, she uncovers motives that are as personal as they are professional.
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AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter by Josh Tyrangiel Looking past splashy promises and ominous warnings, Tyrangiel follows teachers, doctors, public servants and other unlikely tinkerers who have adopted AI as a practical tool to solve concrete problems in logistics, government services, medicine and education, tracing how they experiment, adapt and sometimes fail as they try to use algorithms to support human judgment rather than replace it and showing what thoughtful, small‑scale innovation can look like in everyday institutions.
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The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren Three years after a whirlwind Vegas wedding to an easygoing landscaper, a scientist has buried herself in a high‑stakes research project that keeps edging their marriage aside, and when a sudden accident kills her husband, she secretly uses her experimental technology to bring him back - only to find his memories of their life together erased, forcing her to navigate grief, guilt and hope as she tries to know whether, and how, they can fall in love again.
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Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter by Ada Ferrer In 1963, four years after Castro’s revolution, Ada Ferrer’s mother left Cuba for the United States with her baby daughter but not her nine‑year‑old son, a choice that split the family across borders and decades; drawing on letters exchanged across that divide, official records and the memories of relatives who stayed and those who left, Ferrer traces how migration, race and political upheaval shaped three generations’ ideas of home and belonging.
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