Summer Reads

In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. Indian American journalist Smita has returned...

Dirt Creek is a mystery with all the tragedy of a Russell Banks novel. Where gossip and whispers are bales of hay thrown around a farm, and everyone's got a match. In this ‘outback noir’ debut, all the adults are suspects, and they are as vulnerable as...

In this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens.   There has always been tension in “the blind house,” where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in...

(Available after July 30th, 2023)An unforgettable, lighthearted story about a young woman who discovers the insular world of writers, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home.Carla is in her twenties, working for a landscaper,...

Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty...

An easy-to-follow, life-changing approach designed to increase happiness and fulfillment in everyday life furnishes a comprehensive guide that redefines what happiness and what it is not and introduces activities, including exercises in practicing...

Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling Frieda sail for America to join their sister in New York. But discriminatory new immigration laws bar...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZENamed a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Electric LitFrom a prizewinning author comes an “electric...stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSFor readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, "a sensational story told with nuance and humanity"...

When a relationship expert’s own marriage falls apart, she invites four strangers to Italy for a vacation of healing and second chances in this uplifting new novel from the author of  The Messy Lives of Book People .Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host...

"A riveting mother-daughter tale." — Elle   “A celebration of life in all its forms and a joy to read.” — Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of...

Mrs. Plansky's Revenge is bestselling author Spencer Quinn's first novel in a new series since the meteoric launch of Chet and Bernie--introducing the irresistible and unforgettable Mrs. Plansky, in a story perfect for book clubs and commercial fiction...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.   In 1792, formerly enslaved...

(Available after August 30th, 2023)A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a...

(Available after June 30th, 2023)This "absolutely irresistible" historical romance imagines the courtship between Jacqueline Bouvier and the future American president she loved (People).​In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the...

We found it difficult to turn away. The three-person alternating narration put us right there with the characters — Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka — and had us wondering “What if...?” the whole way. Three wives, one letter, and an explosive secret...

Featured on Barack Obama's 2022 Summer Reading ListAn NPR and Vogue Best Book of the YearWinner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardOne of Literary Hub's and The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2022A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Mystery of...

One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the MonthA mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent.   The King of Jordan is turning 60! How better to celebrate the occasion than with his...

Following a long-standing feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her home—alone and by hand—and move it across a frozen pond during a harsh New England winter in this mesmerizing debut.Home is certainly not where Del’s heart...

(Available after 3-20 days)Riches to rags. ... Hidden guns, ... old but not forgotten wounds, ... and a buried treasure!Finding an Uzi in the urn at the shattered mausoleum is exciting and frustrating. Yet Doreen can’t delve into the case, and Mack has...