LibraryAware July 8, 2025

The Hot List
What Half Hollow Hills is reading!

Rank this week

Title

Weeks on list

Format

# 1

My Friends : a novel
by Fredrik Backman

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Erica Bauermeister, Tracy Chevalier, Laura Morelli, Ken Perenyi, Eliza-beth Strout, Donna Tartt

2 Weeks

# 2

Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Elena Armas, Andie J. Chris-topher, Olivia Dade, Letizia Lorini, Charlotte Stein

9 Weeks

# 3

Atmosphere : a Love Story
by Taylor Jenkins Reid

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Stephen Harrigan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mur Lafferty, Kiley Reid, Margot Lee Shetterly, Dava Sobel, Andy Weir

2 Weeks

# 4

One Golden Summer
by Carley Fortune

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Kate Clayborn, Melodie Ed-wards, Lori Foster, Ana Huang, Libby Hub-scher, Abby Jimenez, Annabel Monaghan

2 Weeks

# 5

The River is Waiting : a novel
by Wally Lamb

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: S. A. Cosby, Percival Everett, Bryn Greenwood, Karla F. C. Holloway, Attica Locke, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Matthew Quick

2 Weeks

# 6

The First Gentleman : a thriller
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

If you are waiting for this author, try these read alike authors: Lawrence Robbins, Tom Rosenstiel, Hank Phillippi Ryan, George Stephanopoulos, J. B. Turner, Caspar W. Weinberger, Lis W. Wiehl

1 Week

# 7

The Tenant
by Freida McFadden

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Agatha Christie, Charlotte Duckworth, Mark Edwards, Heather Gudenkauf, Joe Hart, Adele Parks, Sophie Stava

1 Week

# 8

Broken Country : a novel
by Clare Leslie Hall

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Paul Auster, Hannah Mary McKinnon, Sue Miller, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Rebecca Serle, Rosie Walsh

1 Week

# 9

King of Ashes : a novel
by S. A. Cosby

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Matt Hilton, Gabino Iglesias, Attica Locke, Walter Mosley, Chris Offutt, Suzanne Redfearn, Urban Waite

4 Weeks

# 10

The Names
by Florence Knapp

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Jokha Alharthi, Ashley Audrain, Adrienne Brodeur, Rebecca Kauffman, Lisa Ko, Toni Morrison

1 Week

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Honorable Mention

The Emperor of Gladness : a novel
by Ocean Vuong

The Poppy Fields : a novel
by Nikki Erlick