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Debbie's top pick!
Barkskins : a novel
by Annie Proulx
Working as woodcutters under a feudal lord in 17th-century New France, two impoverished young Frenchmen follow separate journeys, one of extraordinary hardship, the other of wealth and craftiness, that shape their families throughout three centuries. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain.
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Greta's top pick!
The Golden Son
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
After his father dies, an Indian doctor doing his medical residency in Texas becomes the head of his family's small village back home. By the internationally best-selling author of Secret Daughter.
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Ted's top pick! When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
A Ivy League-trained, award-winning young neurosurgeon describes his how after receiving a terminal diagnosis with lung cancer he explored the dynamics of his roles as a patient and care provider, the philosophical conundrums about a meaningful life and how he wanted to spend his final days. |
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Karen's top pick! Ms. Marvel : Generation Why
by G. Willow Wilson
The life of Kamala Khan and Ms. Marvel begin to bleed together when she teams up with Wolverine, meets the royal dog, Lockjaw, while battling the Inhumanity, and finds some unlikely allies while preparing to battle the Inventor. |
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Stacey's top pick! A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility. |
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Sonia's top pick! Chicago
by Brian Doyle
An ode to Chicago is presented through the coming-of-age experiences of a young college graduate, who after renting an apartment on the lakeside north of the city befriends a motley assortment of locals and is swept up by a momentous period in Red Sox history. By the best-selling author of The Plover. |
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Becky's top pick! Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem. |
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Heather's top pick! The Sun Is Also A Star
by Nicola Yoon
A scientifically minded girl who avoids relationships to help keep her family from being deported and a dutiful student who endeavors to live up to his parents' high expectations unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together. By the best-selling author of Everything, Everything. |
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Emily B's top pick! The One Man
by Andrew Gross
When a World War II physics professor with information vital to Allied forces is sent to a Nazi concentration camp, intelligence officer Nathan Blum is sent undercover to infiltrate Auschwitz and bring the professor to safety. By the best-selling author of The Dark Tide. |
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Mike's top pick! The Guineveres
by Sarah Domet
Left by their parents to be raised by nuns, four girls with the same name are bound by their pain and secrets until the assistance they provide to four comatose soldiers tests their bond and their perceptions of home in unexpected ways. |
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Megan's top pick!
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
A debut memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father's laboratory, her longtime relationship with a brilliant but wounded colleague and the remarkable discoveries they have made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
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Jennifer's top pick! Salt To The Sea: A Novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive. By the award-winning author of Out of the Easy. |
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Emily V's top pick! The Girls: A Novel
by Emma Cline
Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader. |
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Melissa's top pick! Darktown: A Novel
by Thomas Mullen
Hired resentfully into the Atlanta Police Department of 1948, war veterans Lucious Boggs and Tommy Smith confront deep hostility from their white peers and are significantly limited in their ability to do their jobs before confronting a corrupt officer who complicates their investigation into the murder of a black woman. |
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Maggie's top pick!
Faithful
by Alice Hoffman
Overwhelmed by guilt when she walks away from an accident that destroys her best friend's future, Shelby connects with a circle of lost and found souls, including a guardian angel, to fight her way back to her own future. By the best-selling author of The Marriage of Opposites.
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