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Top 10 Checked Out Adult Fiction Titles 2024 |
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These are the Top 10 fiction titles checked out at Wilton Library in 2024 |
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#1: The Women by Kristin HannahIn 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words “Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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#2: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideWhen a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters living on the margins of white, Christian America, closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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#3: Demon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverThe 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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#4: The Covenant of Water by Abraham VergheseSpanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
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#5: Table for Two: Fictions by Amor TowlesThe New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters. Also included is a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints and starring the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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#6: Long Island by Colm ToibinIt's 1976 in Lindenhurst, Long Island. Ellis Lacey, an Irishwoman in her 40s still new to this country, discovers her husband got a woman pregnant. The woman's husband refuses to raise the child, forcing Ellis to decide what she will do and not do in this unexpected situation.
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#7: Funny Story by Emily HenryDaphne's boyfriend dumps her for his lifelong best friend Petra. Broke and with no other alternative, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex, Miles, until she can figure things out. She has no interest in him... or does she?
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#8: Hello Beautiful by Ann NapolitanoAwarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household, in the new novel by the author of Dear Edward.
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#9: Tom Lake by Ann PatchettRecalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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#10: Sandwich by Catherine NewmanWhile on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future, and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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