LibraryAware October 21, 2025

The Hot List
What Half Hollow Hills is reading!

Rank this week

Title

Weeks on list

Format

# 1

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

4 Weeks

# 2

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

1 Week

# 3

Circle of Days : a novel
by Ken Follett

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Jeffrey Archer, Bernard Corn-well, Mike Parker Pearson, Graham Robb, Edward Rutherfurd, Minette Walters

1 Week

# 4

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

# 5

The Proving Ground
by Michael Connelly

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Richard Barre, Alan M. Dersh= owitz, Nancy Grace, Todd M. Johnson, Jonathan Kellerman, John Lescroart, Sheldon Siegel, Bryan Stevenson

1 Week

# 6

Twice : a novel
by Mitch Albom

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

1 Week

# 7

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

1 Week

# 8

Denied Access : a Mitch Rapp thriller
by Don Bentley

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Marc Cameron, Matt Dunn, Dalton Fury, Mark Greaney, David Ignatius, Brad Thor, M. P. Woodward

1 Week

# 9

The Impossible Fortune : a Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Dorothy Gilman, Mario Gior-dano, Mick Herron, Lee Hollis, Deanna Ray-bourn, Jesse Q. Sutanto, Robert Thorogood

2 Weeks

# 10

Do Not Disturb
by Freida McFadden

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Robert Bloch, Darcy Coates, Paula Hawkins, Leah Konen, Megan Miranda, Gregg Olsen, Annie Ward

2 Weeks

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Honorable Mention

Wise Gals : the Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
by Nathalia Holt

A Woman of No Importance : the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII
by Sonia Purnell