Your Library: The Hot List: December 9, 2025

The Hot List
What Half Hollow Hills is reading!

Rank this week

Title

Weeks on list

Format

# 1

The Widow
by John Grisham

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: David Baldacci, Marcia Clark, Robyn Gigl, Greg Iles, Brad Meltzer, Lisa Scottoline, Scott Turow

5 Weeks

# 2

The Correspondent : a novel
by Virginia Evans

If you are waiting for this title: Mikki Brammer, Rachel Joyce, Mary Beth Keane, Yiyun Li, Beth Morrey, Josie Silver, Elizabeth Strout

1 Week

# 3

The Secret of Secrets : a novel

by Dan Brown

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Umberto Eco, David Liss, Kathleen McGowan, Scott Mariani, Oliver Potzsch, James Rollins, Danielle Trussoni

3 Weeks

# 4

Nash Falls
by David Baldacci

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Jeff Abbott, John Brownlow, Stephen J. Cannell, Adam Mitzner, Chris Pavone, John Sandford, Kim Sherwood, Andrew Vachss

1 Week

# 5

Exit Strategy : a Reacher novel
by Lee Child

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Barry Eisler, Gregg Hurwitz, Louis L'Amour, Taylor Moore, John J. Nance, F. Paul Wilson

2 Weeks

# 6

Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon

Gone Before Goodbye
by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon

if you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Robin Cook, Linda Fairstein, Tess Gerritsen, Isabella Maldonado, Michael Palmer, Karin Slaughter, Leslie Wolfe

1 Week

# 7

The Intruder
by Freida McFadden

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Heather Chavez, Tarryn Fisher, Margot Hunt, Mary Kubica, Shari Lapena, Kate Alice Marshall, Jeneva Rose, Chevy Stevens

2 Weeks

# 8

Queen Esther
by John Irving

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Viola Ardone, Lauren Fox, Mark Jonathan Harris, Ursula Hegi, Otto B. Kraus, William Kent Krueger, Tilar J. Mazzeo, Kelly Rimmer

1 Week

# 9

Heart the Lover
by Lily King

If you are waiting for this author, try these read alike authors: Jane Austen, Mandy Berman, Emma Cline, Akwaeke Emezi, Lauren Groff, Ann Napolitano, Sally Rooney

2 Weeks

# 10

Some Bright Nowhere
by Ann Packer

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Elizabeth Berg, Jonathan Evison, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Sue Miller, Jojo Moyes, Amy Neff, Anna Quindlen, Lisa Ridzen

1 Week

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Honorable Mention

On Animals
by Susan Orlean

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
by Susan Orlean