Your Library: The Hot List: January 20, 2026

The Hot List
What Half Hollow Hills is reading!

Rank this week

Title

Weeks on list

Format

# 1

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

3 Weeks

# 2

The First Time I Saw Him
by Laura Dave

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Darcey Bell, Flynn Berry, Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, Lisa Jackson, Laurie R. King, B. A. Paris, Amanda Quick, Karin Slaughter, Peter Swanson, Lisa Unger

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

7 Weeks

# 4

Gone Before Goodbye
by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben

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

4 Weeks

# 5

My Husband's Wife
by Alice Feeney

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Fiona Barton, Jane Corry, JP Delaney, B. A. Paris, Amanda Prowse, Emma Rosenblum, Catherine Steadman, Lisa Unger

1 Week

# 6

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

2 Weeks

# 7

Twice
by Mitch Albom

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Jude Deveraux, Jack Finney, Diana Gabaldon, Matt Haig, Og Mandino, Erin Morgenstern, Jill Santopolo, Evie Woods

2 Weeks

# 8

The Viper: A Zig & Nola Novel
by Brad Meltzer

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: David Baldacci, Dale Brown, Joseph Finder, Steve Konkoly, Jayne Ann Krentz, Steven Pressfield, Matthew Quirk

1 Week

# 9

Lost Lambs
by Madeline Cash

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Joy Fielding, David Gilbert, Nathan Hill, Dean Koontz, Sarah Langan, Kimberly McCreight, Jojo Moyes

1 Week

# 10

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

# Weeks

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Honorable Mention

The Shop on Hidden Lane
by Jayne Ann Krentz

Anatomy of an Alibi
by Ashley Elston