By Farah Heron
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.

By Elan Mastai
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Living in an alternate world of flying cars, moon bases, and plentiful food, aimless Tom Barren is blindsided by a time-travel mishap that lands him in our less-than-ideal 2016, where he discovers wonderful unexpected versions of his own life.

By Leo Tolstoy
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A translation of the classic Russian novel tells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated, adulterous romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia.

By Agatha Christie
Series Miss Marple #10
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

During a vacation in London, Miss Marple becomes suspicious of the other guests in her too-dignified West End hotel.

By Richard Ford
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Presents a memoir in two parts on the lives of the author's parents in the Depression-era South that explores their motivations and dreams, his traveling salesman father's early death, and the family's transient lives in a series of hotels.

By Connie Willis
Series Oxford Time Travel Novels
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Stranded in World War II England, three researchers from the future investigate period behavior and seek each other out in a shared effort to return to their own time.

By Kim Michele Richardson
Series Troublesome Creek #1
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.

By Michelle Gable
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Desperate for money, struggling young author Nancy Mitford takes a job managing the Heywood Hill bookshop, where she meets a mysterious French officer who insists she has a compelling story to tell.

By Annie Lyons
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, a world-weary octogenarian forges an unexpected bond with an exuberant 10-year-old who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees and other social excursions

By Avni Doshi
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, a literary debut novel set in India is about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal.

By Pam Fessler
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Explores the hidden history of Carville, the only leprosy colony in the continental United States which lasted from 1894 to 1999, and the shameful treatment of the thousands of Americans who were needlessly exiled there.

By Jonathan Franzen
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old–fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands–off parenting, do– it–yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.

By Jonathan Franzen
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

As Christmas 1971 approaches, the Hildebrand family of New Prospect, Illinois deals with increasing points of crisis including a stale marriage, the draft and their son's sexual orientation in the first novel in a new trilogy.

By Ann Napolitano
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian

12–year–old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses.

By Jonathan Franzen
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

An intimate memoir by the award-winning author of The Corrections describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, the influence of Kafka's fiction on his quest to lose his virginity, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, global warming, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.”

By Wendy Walker
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The daughter of a woman who allegedly went missing by choice visits the small town where her mother was last seen to investigate unsettling witness accounts.

By Louise Aronson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A geriatrician, writer and professor of medicine challenges the way people think and feel about aging and medicine through stories from her twenty–five years of patient care as well as from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life.

By Elizabeth Von Arnim
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Four English women find their lives changed when they rent San Salvatore, a medieval castle on the Italian Riviera.

By Valerie Bertinelli
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The actress and TV personality returns with a look at turning 60 and learning to love herself the way she is despite a past spent judging herself too harshly.

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.

By Trish Doller
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

Hiring a sailor to navigate the boat trip she planned before her fiancé’s death, Anna begins healing from a broken heart in the wake of an unexpected romance.

By R. C. Sherriff
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

This wonderfully nostalgic and soothing novel about ordinary people enjoying life's simple pleasures follows the Stevens family as they go on their annual seaside vacation during which they savor every moment of their holiday, knowing that things may not be the same next year.

By Anne Tyler
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Follows the Garrett family from 1959 onward as they discover that their actions advance across decades and ripple through generations, in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Breathing Lessons.

By Eric Weiner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Draws on the author's experiences as a foreign correspondent to evaluate more than three dozen countries for their happiness potential, in a survey that includes profiles of such locales as the American shores, glacial Iceland, and the Bhutan jungles.

By Sanjena Sathian
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A satirical coming–of–age story follows the experiences of an Indian–American teen in the Bush–era Atlanta suburbs, who joins his crush’s plot to use an ancient alchemical potion to meet high parental expectations, triggering devastating consequences.

By Alex George
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The Meisenheimer family struggle to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than just music and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.

By Jennifer Robson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating women who made it.

By Steven Rowley
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

When Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP) for short, takes on the role of primary guardian for his young niece and nephew, he sets “Guncle Rules,” but soon learns that parenting isn’t solved with treats or jokes as his eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility.

By Maggie O'Farrell
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The award–winning author of I Am, I Am, I Am presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare’s marriage to a talented herbalist before the ravaging death of their 11– year–old son shapes the production of his greatest play.

By Abby Jimenez
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Adopting a rescue puppy to help her get her life back on track two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan clashes with the mischievous pup’s original owner, Jason, a rising musician who challenges Sloan to make difficult choices.

By Alka Joshi
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk, Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A talented henna artist for wealthy confidantes finds her efforts to control her own destiny in 1950s Jaipur threatened by the abusive husband she fled as a teenage girl.

By Saul Bellow
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption.

By Robert Kolker
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Tells the heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, 6 of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

By Alice Feeney
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Sacrificing everything for her hard–won BBC presenter career, Anna teams up with DCI Jack Harper to investigate a childhood friend’s murder in her sleepy hometown village.

By Allison Pearson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The heroine from the best–selling I Don't Know How She Does It is forced by her husband's flaky unemployment to reinvent herself as a younger, hip professional to secure a job with the hedge fund she founded.

By Ava Wilder
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

When her long–running teen soap opera wraps, Grey Brooks enters into her publicist’s scheme to begin a fake a love affair with a disgraced Hollywood heartthrob who also could use the publicity, but is shocked when real feelings emerge.

By Sophie Kinsella
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Struggling to hold her late father's business together in spite of her less-motivated siblings, Fixie Farr cashes in an IOU from a handsome stranger to find employment for her childhood crush.

By Robinne Lee
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A middle–aged art gallery owner begins a passionate fling with a member of her daughter’s favorite boy band, who is 19 years her junior, and must fend off rabid fans and insatiable media after their affair becomes a viral sensation.

By Sarah Lotz
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

When two strangers start an accidental correspondence that leads to love, they discover, after numerous failed attempts to finally meet in person, discover they’re living in parallel worlds and must beat impossible odds and make impossible choices to be together.

By Sara Ackerman
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A tale set in World War II Hawaii follows the experiences of a woman struggling to repair her life in the aftermath of her husband's mysterious disappearance, a situation that is complicated by malicious local gossip, her husband's secret activities and growing suspicions that her daughter knows more than she admits.

By Sophie Cousens
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Arriving in the Channel Islands to write an article about her parents romance, hopeless romantic and lifestyle reporter Laura, after grabbing the wrong suitcase, discovers the owner is clearly her dream man as she sets out to find him, learning some hard truths along the way.

By Nick Hornby
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Miserably married to a man with whom she once shared everything in common, Lucy forges an unexpected bond with her 22-year-old babysitter, a man from an entirely different class, culture and generation. 

By Madeline Martin
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Taking a job in a London bookshop just as the Blitz begins, Grace finds comfort in the power of words, storytelling and community as the bookshop becomes one of the only remaining properties to survive the bombings.

By Freya Sampson
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

When her library is threatened with closure, June Hones, to save the place and the books that mean so much to her, must make some changes to her solitary life by opening her heart to the world around her and fighting for what she believes in.

By Poppy Alexander
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

After the death of her beloved grandmother, librarian Jess Metcalf, packing up all her books and moving to a tiny cottage in the English countryside, discovers she’s the owner of an old red phone box and turns it into the littlest library in England.

By Sarah Penner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Secretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.

By Richard Osman
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

When an old friend, who has been accused of stealing millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds, desperately needs her help leaving a dead body in his wake, Elizabeth and her friends go up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.

By Lori Gottlieb
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

The national advice columnist presents a behind–the–scenes tour of a therapist's world from the perspective of both a patient and a psychotherapist who found answers in her client's journeys.

By Alice Youngson
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

A professor in Denmark and a grandmother in England begin a correspondence, and a friendship, that develops into something extraordinary.

By Matt Haig
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.