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Mystery

Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers / Jesse Q. Sutanto: Vera Wong is a widowed sixty-year-old woman living alone and running a teahouse in San Francisco. Her teahouse doesn't see many customers, until one day, she walks in to discover a dead body
The Thursday murder club / Richard Osman: In a retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph, they find themselves in the middle of their first case.
The Bangalore detectives club / Harini Nagendra: A mystery novel about Kaveri Murthy, a young wife living a conservative household who applies her prodigious intelligence to solve a murder that threatens to tear apart genteel 1920s colonial Bangalore.
The river we remember / William Kent Krueger: On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars, the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating dead in the river.
The mountains wild / Sarah Stewart Taylor: Long Island detective and single mother Maggie D'arcy tracks her missing cousin in a cold case that reaches across Dublin and the Irish countryside.
No strangers here / Carlene O'Connor: Set in Ireland's striking, rugged countryside, a dark, atmospheric new crime fiction series follows an Irish veterinarian grappling with life, death, family dynamics, and the secrets at the heart of her community.
Thin ice / Paige Shelton: As rumors of murder spread, suspicion falls upon the felons staying at a local halfway house—and Beth herself. Intrigued by both the mystery and the wary folks who call Benedict home, Beth starts asking questions.
The golden gate / Amy Chua: A sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.
Smile Beach murder / Alicia Bessette: Callie Padget a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks, is pulled into a deadly web of secrets when a mysterious fall at a lighthouse echoes a tragedy from her past.
Thief of souls / Brian Klingborg: the brutal murder of a woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing―but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim.
The survivors / Jane Harper: Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that stillhaunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.
Arsenic and adobo / Mia P. Manansala: When Lila Macapagal moves back home, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. But then she becomes the main suspect of the murder of a nasty food critic.
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Non-Fiction

The method : how the twentieth century learned to act / Isaac Butler: The critically acclaimed cultural history of Method acting―an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood.
Under the eye of power : how fear of secret societies shapes American democracy / Colin Dickey: A history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia.
Under the henfluence : inside the world of backyard chickens and the people who love them / Tove Danovich: An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.
Walk the walk : how three police chiefs defied the odds and changed cop culture / Neil Gross: The story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing.
I'm so effing hungry : why we crave what we crave--and what to do about it / Amy Shah, MD.: I'm So Effing Hungry is a complete guide to help you reframe decades-old dieting patterns and stop fighting the scale.
Forager : field notes for surviving a family cult / Michelle Dowd: A memoir of the author's experience growing up in an apocalyptic cult, with an emphasis on how understanding the natural world was her key to escape and survival.
What an owl knows : the new science of the world's most enigmatic birds / Jennifer Ackerman: A brilliant scientific exploration of owls, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imagination.
How we eat : the brave new world of food and drink / Paco Underhill: An exploration of how our food is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet.
The vaccine : inside the race to conquer the COVID-19 pandemic / Joe Miller, with Dr. Özlem Türeci and Dr. Uğur Şahin: The Vaccine draws back the curtain on one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our age.
Happy-go-lucky / David Sedaris: A new collection of humorous essays that chronical David Sedaris' own life and ordinary moments that run beautifully absurd.
Otherlands : a journey through Earth's extinct worlds / Thomas Halliday: Mining the most recent paleontological advances, a paleobiologist recreates sixteen extinct worlds, rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama.
Life on the rocks : building a future for coral reefs / Juli Berwald: A meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds.
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Biographies

I was better last night / Harvey Fierstein: A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner; Harvey Fierstein.
Left on Tenth : a second chance at life / Delia Ephron: The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution.
Comedy comedy comedy drama / Bob Odenkirk: Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for.
I'm glad my mom died / Jennette McCurdy: A memoir by Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.
The facemaker: a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I / Lindsey Fitzharris: The pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers.
Go back to where you came from: and other helpful recommendations on how to become American / Wajahat Ali: In this refreshingly bold, hopeful, and uproarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons for cultivating a more compassionate, inclusive America.
The master : the long run and beautiful game of Roger Federer / Christopher Clarey: The Master tells the story of Federer's life and career on both an intimate and grand scale, in a way no one else could possibly do.
The stories we tell / Joanna Gaines: In her first solo memoir, Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back.
Three girls from Bronzeville : a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood / Dawn Turner: memoir about three Black girls from Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, and sisterhood.
Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed / Lori Gottlieb: A hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers.
Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement / Albert Woodfox: Solitary is the life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, all for a crime he did not commit.
Orwell's roses / Rebecca Solnit: A biography and literary criticism that explores the relation between George Orwell's interest in gardening and his other authorial and political commitments.
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Science Fiction

Sea of Tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel: A story that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets.
Project Hail Mary / Andy Weir: The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Goldilocks / Laura Lam: A gripping science fiction thriller where five women task themselves with ensuring the survival of the human race.
Fifty in reverse / Bill Flanagan: Peter Wyatt falls asleep in 2020 as a 65-year-old man, only to wake up back in his life as a 15-year-old. He tries to figure out how he's going to find his way back to his life, and his family, in 2020.
To sleep in a sea of stars / Christopher Paolini: During a mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. This encounter kicks off a series of events with troubling consequences for the human race.
Hearts of oak / Eddie Robson: The buildings grow, and the city expands. And the people of the land are starting to behave abnormally, or perhaps they've always behaved that way, and it's normality that's at fault.
An absolutely remarkable thing / Hank Green: A tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined.
Remote control / Nnedi Okorafor: A story about Africanfuturist strain that knows aliens exist, quietly shows how technology is influenced by culture, features a powerful yet deeply-pained female protagonist, and wonders about the role of corporations.
Reason for existence / by Richard Botelho: A plot to exterminate humans by a hostile group could be thwarted if extraterretrial human David Jacobs helps the U.N. in an escalating nuclear crisis.
The midnight library / Matt Haig: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.
I, robot / Isaac Asimov: The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.
Meru / S.B. Divya: In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, two alloys are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world.
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Thriller

You will never be found / Tove Alsterdal: While investigating the disappearance of a man reported missing by his wife, police officer Eira Sjödin, knowing the pain of loss, loses herself in an affair with her boss until he, too, disappears.
Just the nicest couple / Mary Kubica: When her husband Jack vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake.
Identity / Nora Roberts: Morgan Albright is determined to get her life back after a con artist steals her identity, her nest egg and murders her roommate. Yet, she was the one that got away from the conman, and he is determined to make her pay for it.
The Villa / Rachel Hawkins: Emily and Chess have been best friends since they were kids. They spend a few weeks in a villa in Italy. While they were there, Emily finds hints of the earlier murder in the Villa and searches for more clues.
I have some questions for you / Rebecca Makkai: A woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school.
What have we done / Alex Finlay: A tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.
Good bad girl / Alice Feeney: Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.
Find me / Alafair Burke: She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fourteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. And now, she disappears again.
The cartographers / Peng Shepherd: A young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history
Blood sugar / Sascha Rothchild: People keep dying around Ruby Simon, but she insists that doesn't mean she's always guilty. Should we take a confessed killer at her word?
Tell me an ending / Jo Harkin: What if you once had a painful memory removed and you were offered the chance to get it back? The story follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember-and what they hoped to forget forever.
Sisters of the lost nation / Nick Medina: A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself.
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Romance

People We Meet on Vacation / Emily Henry: Two best friends, Alex and Poppy, who always take an annual summer vacation together. After a mysterious incident two years ago the two have drifted apart but Poppy proposes one last trip to save their friendship.
Anatomy of a meet cute / Addie Woolridge: Sparks fly when an ob-gyn butts heads with a doctor at her new hospital in this delightfully charming romance about bad timing, good friends, and fresh starts.
You made a fool of death with your beauty / Akwaeke Emezi: It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of Feyi Adekola's life and she's almost a new person now. Her best friend, Joy insists it's time for Feyi to ease back into dating.
The wife upstairs / Rachel Hawkins: Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. Her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester.
Seven days in June / Tia Williams:Eva and Shane spent seven days together as teenagers in June.15 years later when they are both writers who have been secretly writing to each other in their novels. They come together for 7 days in June.
In five years / Rebecca Serle: After nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep. But when she wakes up, she's in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man.
Trust exercise / Susan Choi: Sarah and David are performing art students coming from different socio-economic backgrounds. The two fall in love despite their contrasting circumstances, but their relationship ends in a bitter breakup.
Someone else's shoes / Jojo Moyes: Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Sam accidentally takes Nisha's gym bag and her shoes. Sam's walking tall with Nisha's shoes, but Nisha wants her shoes and life back.
Every summer after / Carley Fortune: Five summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
Dreamland / Nicholas Sparks: Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations and he became the head of a small family farm. when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-down.
No words / Meg Cabot: Jo Wright swore she'd never step foot on Little Bridge Island, not as long as her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is living there. Then Jo's given an offer she can't refuse: an all-expense paid trip to island's book festival.
Heart bones / Colleen Hoover: Beyah comes from a life of poverty and neglect. Samson comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But what they have in common is they're both drawn to sad things, and consequently each other.
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Historical Fiction

All the ways we said goodbye / Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. This novel connects three extraordinary women across the First World War, the Second World War, and the 1960s, as each finds refuge at the legendary Ritz Paris.
All the light we cannot see / Anthony Doerr: The paths of a blind French girl and a German boy collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Go as a river / Shelley Read: Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, it is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home
Under the golden sun / Jenny Ashcroft: The mother who has lost her child and the child who has lost his family; women forging deep, meaningful friendships that are treated with the same importance as the romantic entanglements; and perhaps even better.
The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams: Esme, who is motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in a garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford Dictionary.
A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles: The story of a Russian aristocrat living under house arrest in a luxury hotel for more than thirty years.
The Mitford affair / Marie Benedict: As the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious of her sisters' constant visits to Germany and the high-ranking fascist company they keep.
Woman on fire / Lisa Barr: The story of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth.
The invisible life of Addie LaRue / V.E. Schwab: France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
When we had wings / Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner: Three women shift in and out of each other's lives through the darkest days of the war, buoyed by their unwavering friendship and distant dreams of liberation.
Ariadne / Jennifer Saint: A shimmering tapestry of two sisters bound by deceit and the shadows of family history. One marries a hero, the other a god. And the secrets that their husbands keep become a monstrous backdrop to their relationship.
Beyond that, the sea / Laura Spence-Ash: the story of a British girl taken in by a prosperous New England family in the Second World War, and of the legacy of the intimate relationships that ensue.
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Fantasy

The house in the cerulean sea / TJ Klune: The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place-and realizing that family is yours.
Every heart a doorway / Seanan McGuire: Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.
Keeper of enchanted rooms / Charlie N. Holmberg: A house of haunted history and ill temper. Make yourself at home in this beguiling novel of love, magic, and danger by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.
The last smile in Sunder City / Luke Arnold: In a world that's lost its magic, a former soldier turned PI solves cases for the fantasy creatures whose lives he ruined.
The witch's heart / Genevieve Gornichec: When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology.
The Beautiful Ones / Silvia Moreno-Garcia: The story of a young debutante looking to elevate her social status struggles to hide her psychic abilities, until she meets a dashing telekinetic performer who offers her a chance to embrace them.
Honeycomb / Joanne M. Harris: A lushly illustrated set of dark, captivating fairy tales from the bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki with the illustrator of Stardust, Charles Vess.The beauty of stories; you never know where they will take you.
Prosper's demon / K.J. Parker: Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world's first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he's demonically possessed.
The city of brass / S. A. Chakraborty: A tale in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts.
The library of the dead / T.L. Huchu: Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker, and she now speaks to Edinburgh's dead - carrying messages to the living.
The will and the wilds / Charlie N. Holmberg: Enna knows to fear the mystings that roam the wildwood near her home. When one tries to kill her to obtain an enchanted stone, Enna takes a huge risk: fighting back with a mysting of her own.
The great witch of Brittany / Louisa Morgan: Set in the late 1700s, a tale of magic and fate, triumph and heartbreak, and the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters unfolds.
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Dystopian

The school for good mothers / by Jessamine Chan: Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence.
Vox / Christina Dalcher: Half the population of the United States has been silenced. This is the story of one woman and what she will do to protect her daughter and herself.
The deluge / Stephen Markley: In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to colorful characters, including a young activist who begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
Elsewhere / Alexis Schaitkin: Elsewhere conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.
Our missing hearts / Celeste Ng: A story about a 12 year old boy named Noah "Bird" Gardner whose mother, a revolutionary poet is on the run after lines from her poetry are used to oppose a government policy called PACT.
The women could fly / Megan Giddings: A story about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored.
Blue ticket / Sophie Mackintosh: A mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: In a world where women can't have it all, but are selected as either mothers or workers at the beginning of their adult lives. Is choice the biggest burden of all?
Find me / Laura van den Berg: When a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune.
The memory police / Yoko Ogawa: When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
Bannerless / Carrie Vaughn: A murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.
A boy and his dog at the end of the world / C.A. Fletcher: The story follows Griz as he takes on a journey to save his stolen dog. It's a post-apocalyptic story on survival, courage, hope, humanity, family, and the importance of being grateful.
Borne / Jeff VanderMeer: In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict.
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Horror

The only good Indians / Stephen Graham Jones: The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives.
The children on the hill / Jennifer McMahon: Inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, which brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.
Home before dark / Riley Sager: The story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman's quest to uncover them - even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting.
A house with good bones / T. Kingfisher: A contemporary Southern Gothic from a master of modern horror that explores the deep, dark roots of family and in which grandma's ghost haunting your house may be the least of your worries.
Just like mother / Anne Heltzel: A young woman reunites with her cousin after escaping a cult.
Creatures of passage / Morowa Yejidé: An unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim itself.
Sorrowland / Rivers Solomon: The story of a pregnant woman who flees to the woods in a desperate attempt to escape the religious compound that was once her home.
Devoted / Dean Koontz: An epic thriller about a terrifying killer and the singular compassion it will take to defeat him.
The girl from Widow Hills / Megan Miranda: The story about a girl who was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and found alive after 3 days. As an adult, she wants to leave it behind, but the the past just won't stay in the past.
Firestarter / Stephen King: The story of Charlie and Andy, a father and daughter on the run from a government agency known as The Shop, who wants to apprehend Andy's unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary
A dowry of blood / S. T. Gibson: A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula's brides, A Dowry of Blood is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation.
A history of fear / Luke Dumas: An eerie literary suspense debut following the harrowing downfall of a tortured graduate student who’s been nicknamed the Devil’s Advocate for his sensational crime.