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Most Requested BooksJuly 2020
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With the resumption of Library checkouts (curbside M-F, 10am-2pm), many of these books are on the Bestsellers Shelves. To hold one or more available copies, phone 415.789.2661. While closed for browsing the physical shelves, we encourage you to check out and download eBooks, as well. If you need help, phone 415.789.2661 or email us at refdesk@beltiblibrary.org.
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American dirtby 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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Fair warning by Michael ConnellyWhen a woman with whom he shared a one-night stand is found brutally murdered, veteran reporter Jack McEvoy tracks a serial killer who has been operating under the radar - by the best-selling author of The Poet.
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The room where it happened : a White House memoir by John R. Bolton John Bolton served as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump for 519 days. A seasoned public servant who had previously worked for Presidents Reagan, Bush #41, and Bush #43, Bolton brought to the administration thirty years of experience in international issues and a reputation for tough, blunt talk. In his memoir, he offers a substantive and factual account of his time in the room where it happened.
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The Dutch houseby Ann PatchettA tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man’s 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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Such a fun ageby Kiley ReidSeeking justice for a young Black babysitter who was wrongly accused of kidnapping by a racist security guard, a successful blogger finds her efforts complicated by a video that reveals unexpected connections.
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A long petal of the seaby Isabel Allende Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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A very stable genius : Donald J. Trump's testing of America by Philip Rucker A Washington Post national investigative reporter and the White House bureau chief share personal revelatory insights into Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, its consequences and the underlying patterns beneath a deceptively chaotic Trump administration.
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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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The overstoryby Richard PowersThe National Book Award-winning author presents an impassioned novel of activism and natural-world power that is comprised of interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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The giver of stars by Jojo MoyesVolunteering for Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling Library in small-town Kentucky, an English bride joins a group of independent women whose commitment to their job transforms the community and their relationships - by the best-selling author of Me Before You.
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Camino winds by John GrishamThe best-selling author of Fair Warning presents a follow-up to Camino Island that finds novelist Mercer Mann’s continued efforts to find literary inspiration in the idyllic region complicated by mysterious intrigues.
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How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi A best-selling author, National Book Award winner and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.
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The glass hotelby Emily St. John MandelThe award-winning author of Station Eleven presents a tale of crisis and survival in the hidden landscapes of homeless campgrounds, luxury hotels, private clubs and federal prisons, where a massive Ponzi scheme is tied to a woman’s disappearance at sea.
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Deacon King Kongby James McBride In the aftermath of a 1969 Brooklyn church deacon’s public shooting of a local drug dealer, the community’s African-American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters.
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The mirror & the light by Hilary Mantel A tale inspired by the final years of Thomas Cromwell describes how, after the execution of Anne Boleyn and childbed death of Queen Jane, the former blacksmith’s son orchestrates a desperate plot to fortify England and save his own life.
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Weatherby Jenny Offill Hired by her famous podcaster mentor to answer letters from increasingly polarized fans, a Librarian, who has acquired her education from a lifetime spent reading, struggles between the limits of her knowledge and growing crises in the outside world.
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Apeirogonby Colum McCann Two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace - by the best-selling author of TransAtlantic.
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Untamed by Glennon DoyleAn activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost.
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