The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides

A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to murder her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation. 

Hollywood Park : A Memoir
by Mikel Jollett

STAFF TAKE:  Fell in love with this little guy who is the lead singer of the band The Airborne Toxic Event. He reveals his upbringing in the Church of Synanon cult, where he endured poverty, addiction and emotional abuse before slowly working his way toward a music career.

The Flatshare
by Beth O'Leary

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence. 

Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion. By the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow.

The Feather Thief 
by Kirk W Johnson

Documents the 2009 theft of an invaluable collection of ornithological displays from the British Museum of Natural History by a talented American musician, tracing the author's years-long investigation to track down the culprit.

The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones

A novel that blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. 

Good Me Bad Me
by Ali Land

STAFF TAKE:  A page turner with a great ending. Milly, the daughter of a serial killer, is given a fresh start with a new identity and placement in an affluent foster family, but wrestles with the decision not to follow in her mother's violent footsteps.

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, And You
by Jason Reynolds

A timely reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America while explaining their endurance and capacity for being discredited.

American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins

STAFF TAKE:  Despite eh controversy surrounding the book the story had me captivated within the first few pages. A woman and her child are forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile on a drug cartel.  

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab

Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early 18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

The Lions of Fifth Avenue 
by Fiona Davis

STAFF TAKE:  Historical Fiction in a perfect setting: inside the New York Public Library! A bit of history:  several NYPL branches had apartments in the building for the superintendents.