Most Requested Books
September 2026
 
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most requested books in Marin.
Into the Blue: Reese's Book Club: A Love Story by Emma Brodie
Into the Blue
by Emma Brodie

In 2000, an aspiring comedy writer meets a young actor from a famous family at a Massachusetts video store; after he vanishes, their paths cross again on a New York science-fiction series, where unresolved feelings and a long-buried secret alter their shared future.
The French Illusion by John Grisham
The French Illusion
by John Grisham

When newlyweds Paul and Chelsea Tanner are kidnapped during a trip outside Paris, U.S. and French investigators connect their disappearance to earlier crimes; as leads cross national borders, a young lawyer is drawn into a CIA operation designed to expose those responsible.
Heather by Caitlin Mullen
Heather
by Caitlin Mullen
 
When an arrest reopens the decades-old disappearance of teenage twins Annabelle and Sabrina Riley, police chief Callie Hauser investigates the New Jersey Pine Barrens case, uncovering secrets that connect past events to her town, her family and her understanding of justice.
Switzy by Emma Cline
Switzy
by Emma Cline

During a winter journey from Greenland to Zurich, a retired executive with failing memory travels beside his assistant, stopping to see an adult daughter and estranged friend as hotel rooms and airports prompt vivid recollections, regrets and questions about the life he has made.
Etna by Paul Yoon
Etna
by Paul Yoon

After the war ends in an unnamed country, Etna, a former military dog, leaves his unit and crosses a damaged landscape toward the coastal farm of his youth, encountering people and animals likewise trying to make a life amid the aftermath.
The Secrets We Hide: A North Falls Thriller by Karin Slaughter
The Secrets We Hide: A North Falls Thriller
by Karin Slaughter

Gunshots at the Vickery home send North Falls sheriff Emmy Clifton and her former federal-agent sister Jude Archer to a murdered woman and her gravely wounded teenage daughter, while local rumors and a growing suspect list obscure the motive as the investigation turns inward.
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
The Palm House
by Gwendoline Riley

In London, Laura Miller shares pub conversations and old memories with her longtime friend, Edmund Putnam, as he grieves his father and loses his footing at a changing magazine, while she navigates a difficult mother and the unsettled pieces of her past.
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
The Things We Never Say
by Elizabeth Strout

A well-liked Massachusetts history teacher, Artie Dam conceals deep loneliness behind his routines with students, family and sailing; after a near-fatal accident and a troubling family revelation, he must reconsider his marriage, fatherhood and the silences shaping his life.
Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus
Peck & Peck
by Bonnie Garmus
 
In 1982 New York, recent graduate Batter Gray escapes retail work for a position at an influential poetry quarterly, where feuding twin editors, eccentric colleagues and an uncompromising devotion to originality draw him into the rivalries and hazards of the literary world.
American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
American Hagwon
by Min Jin Lee

After betrayal and the 1997 Asian financial crisis disrupt their middle-class life in Seoul, John and Helen Koh move their family through Sydney to Southern California, where changing fortunes and faith in education shape the children’s futures and their parents’ sacrifices.
 
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