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Holiday Gift Ideas - Fiction
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Trust
by Hernán Díaz
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930s New York City.
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The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan
Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious"--that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.
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Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of Americas most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
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Fairy Tale
by Stephen King
A troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a taped message explaining that his shed is the portal to another world.
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Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses.
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Babel
by R. F. Kuang
A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxfords prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the worlds center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing loyalties.
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The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilots flight bag, the planes black box and the 10th passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
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Nightcrawling
by Leila Mottley
When a drunken altercation with a stranger turns into a job she desperately needs, Kiara, who supports her brother and an abandoned 9-year-old boy, starts nightcrawling until her name surfaces in an investigation exposing her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department.
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Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
In a society consumed by fear, 12-year-old Bird Gardner, after receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother??a Chinese-American poet who left when he was 9 years old??leading him to NYC where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
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The Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
In Florence during the 1550s, captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici, having barely left girlhood behind, marries the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and now, in an unfamiliar court where she has one dutyto provide an heirfights for her very survival.
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A World of Curiosities
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Gamache investigates after a 150-year-old letter points to the discovery and opening of a bricked-up room in an attic thats filled with curiosities.
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Carrie Soto is Back
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement at age 37 after watching a young phenom beat her long-standing record at the 1994 US Open.
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Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson
Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mothers life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake when the time is right.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money wont protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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