Your Library: The Hot List: January 6, 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

1 Week

# 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

3 Weeks

# 3

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

3 Weeks

# 4

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

1 Week

# 5

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

# 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

3 Weeks

# 7

The Invisible Woman: A Thriller
by James Patterson and Susan DiLallo

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Sandra Brown, Diane Chamber-lain, Karen Harper, Katia Lief, Isabella Maldonado, Claire McGowan, Carla Neggers

1 Week

# 8

The Mad Wife
by Meagan Church

If you are waiting for this title, try these read alike authors: Marie Bostwick, Jennifer Cody Epstein, Lauren Groff, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Christine Mangan, Kate Moore, Lynn Steger Strong

1 Week

# 9

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

2 Weeks

# 10

Twice
by Mitch Albom

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

3 Weeks

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Honorable Mention

Last Call at the Savoy
by Brisa Carleton

Last Call at the Nightingale: A Mystery
by Katharine Schellman