Happy Hour Book Club: Book Lists

Reimagining of The Great Gatsby with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women's alternating voices.

Pocket, King Lear's fool, sets out to straighten out the mess the mad king has made of the kingdom and the royal family, only to discover the truth about his own heritage.

From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and daughters to make do in mean times.

Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy.

The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.

A four-year-old indigenous girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.

An epic story of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret.

A funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who witnessed it.

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

Story of estranged twin sisters that considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

This cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart.

Murder complicates the lives of future cookbook writer Julia Child’s friends in 1949 Paris.

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.

As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery.

A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.

A defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world

A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.

Classic novel about an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades.

Shakespeare's "New World" play that partially inspired The Vaster Wilds.

Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila takes on a tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block.

In the charming town of Chagrin Falls, OH, Bronwyn Crewse dishes out sweet confections and solves mysteries from her ice cream shop.

When the family restaurant’s manager turns up dead after an allergic reaction to a delivery of shrimp dumplings, it’s up to Lana Lee to find out who is behind the killer order.

When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body.

Follows struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations.

A celebration of Florida from Key West at the bottom to whatever it is that's at the top, from the Sunshine State's earliest history to the fun-fair of weirdness that it is today.

A gleefully dark novel about one young woman’s sensational summer at a Floridian wildlife center for exotic monkeys.

Serge A. Storms, Florida's most lovable serial killer, is back on the road in the latest zany caper.

A novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor and wonderful, eccentric characters.

The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the "World of Darkness."

A novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.

About three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.

A novel that wrestles with the nature of inheritance and legacy as it affects an unforgettable, upper-crust Manhattan clan.

A novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.

A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.

When Fabiola's mother is detained upon their arrival to the United States from Haiti, Fabiola must navigate her loud American cousins, the grittiness of Detroit's west side, a new school, and a surprising romance all on her own.

An immigrant girl is forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.

The Garcia Girls tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home 'and not at home' in America.

Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from th e war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today.

Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.

A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves.

An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group.

Meet Yinka: a 30-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?"

A fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.

Emma gets a fresh Indian-American twist from award-winning author Sonali Dev in her heartwarmingly irresistible Jane Austen inspired rom com series.

Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color.

Featuring plenty of fresh twists to delight fans and new readers alike, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet expands on the web series phenomenon that captivated a generation and reimagines the Pride and Prejudice story like never before.

Eighteen-year-old aspiring chemist Elinor Dashwood and her younger sister Marianne, a budding detective, work together to solve the mystery of their father's murder.

A striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.

A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades.

This is a novel of great empathy, about connections and coming-of-age, built families and self-acceptance.

An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her father on a weeklong cruise in "a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places

Explores the staying power of shame--and the redemptive power of love--in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.

A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.

The Bees is the story of a heroine, a lowly but curious sanitation bee from the lowest class in her hive, who changes her destiny and her world.

One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.

Collects tales involving animal-human relationships that the author has written over the course of her career.

Based on a real tortoise with an unforgettable voice and keen powers of observation on both human and natural affairs.

More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer. Now 20 years later, a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back.

A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade.

Reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. But she finds herself identifying with the victims – a bit too strongly.

The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before.

A book lover's B&B in an idyllic waterfront village becomes the scene of a grisly murder--and a ruthless battle between treachery and the truth.

Lana's love life soon becomes yesterday's news once the restaurant's property manager, Mr. Feng, turns up dead--after a delivery of shrimp dumplings from Ho-Lee.

Four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge.

While traveling to Paris, a wealthy American is stabbed to death in his cabin on the Orient Express. With the train stuck in a snowdrift, there is no easy escape for the killer.

A locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide...

A captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case.

Shifting back and forth between present-day San Francisco and a private orphanage in Sri Lanka in 2002, Jayatissa’s debut thriller takes every opportunity to lead readers astray.

When the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries-and ultimately became deadly.

Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather's attempts to teach her the language. But there was one part of Obaachan's life that had fascinated and haunted Kimi ever since the age of eleven her gentle yet proud Obaachan had once been a prisoner, along with 112,000 Japanese Americans, for more than five years of her life.

A CIA analyst makes a split-second decision that endangers her country but saves her son--and now she must team up with an investigative journalist she's not sure she can trust in this electrifying thriller.

A brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.

A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors-a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives.

When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally--her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her.

a. Traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mysterious mother and daughter who upend their lives.

Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.

Feared from birth for her vivid green eyes, which her fellow slaves believe to be evidence of her dark powers, young slave Lilith is both revered and avoided throughout her childhood and becomes a key in the success of a long-planned slave revolt.

A passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.

A witty and moving story about the lengths to which a woman will go for the love of her child...and the love of a man who knows her worth.

Based on a little-known historical event, this extraordinarily moving novel memorializes the forgotten victims of nationalist madness and the deeply felt passion and grief of its survivors.

At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in this novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman–Evangelina Cisneros–who changed the course of history.

An unforgettable, hilarious rom-com set in the drama-filled world of telenovelas--perfect for fans of Jane the Virgin and The Kiss Quotient.

A hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love.

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. A sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

A steamy #ownvoices enemies-to-lovers novel about a wedding planner left at the alter and the groom's best man.

A scrumptious and sweet romantic comedy on the set of a British baking competition show.

The epic chronicle of families forced off the land during the Great Depression.

A desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.

This widely acclaimed bestseller spans two countries and two generations, following a group of Chinese women who meet to play mah jong, invest money and tell the secret stories of their lives. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.

It was the Great Depression and for Jacob the circus was both his salvation and a living hell. There he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but brutal animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this group of misfits was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.

In a series of letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, he creates small masterpieces of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies.

Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.

With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy.

A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore.

An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II.

Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.

One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio. Before the evening is through, their narratives converge masterfully to reveal a mystery so dark and shocking it will take your breath away.

An immigrant's mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth in this gripping crime novel.

Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.

You never saw him. But he saw it all. When a vibrant young woman is murdered while on a video chat, a small-town detective wades into a circle of friends and lovers with dangerous secrets.

When Fabiola's mother is detained upon their arrival to the United States, Fabiola must navigate her loud American cousins, the grittiness of Detroit's west side, a new school, and a surprising romance all on her own.

Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters--Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía--and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father's role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean.

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.

When sixteen-year-old Bri, an aspiring rapper, pours her anger and frustration into her first song, she finds herself at the center of a controversy.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations.

This epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home.

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys.

Stranded behind enemy lines, brave bomber pilot Nina Markova becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress and joins forces with a Nazi hunter and British war correspondent to find her before she finds them.

The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico.

An imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, 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.

A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.

A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story, this #1 New York Times bestseller is both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right.

Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men.

Between their own fumbles and the wicked team wives, it will take a Hail Mary for Marlee and Gavin's relationship to survive the football season.

Don't miss New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren's new novel about two people who are definitely not dating...no matter how often they end up in bed together.

A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom.

Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.

A sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.

Parks and Recreation star Retta takes us on her not-so-meteoric rise from roaches to riches (well, rich enough that she can buy $15,000 designer handbags yet scared enough to know she's always a heartbeat away from ramen with American cheese).

Mindy turns the anxieties, the glamour, and the celebrations of her second coming-of-age into a laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays that anyone who's ever been at a turning point in their life or career can relate to.

A collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haikus from the mind of one of our most beloved entertainers.

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War.

A desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.

The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.

The story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.

A heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

A case worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth discovers an unlikely family in a most unexpected place.

A lonely woman forms a connection with a Giant Pacific Octopus that results in discovering a future – and a family – she could never have imagined.

A delightfully clever novel following one woman and a supporting cast of misfits, dreamers and foes as they race to win a treasure hunt inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, left behind by a dying billionaire.

A young girl who emigrates from Hong Kong to Brooklyn with her mother and ends up leading a double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and a Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Described as a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared.

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge.

A searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival.

A timely and surprising novel about a family's search for answers following the disappearance of their mother.

When an old enemy threatens her family's restaurant, Alex must combine forces with local professor Jeremiah to save the home they both desperately need.

A novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.

Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures.

Two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection.

The prequel to Alice Hoffman's PRACTICAL MAGIC, following the lives of Franny and Jet Owens (and their brother Vincent Owens) long before Sally and Gillian wound up on their doorstep.

As war approaches, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov trades her gown for a nursing habit, but when troubling rumors about her parents trickle in from the Front and the controversy over Rasputin grows into a fiery protest, a call for revolution threatens to end three hundred years of Romanov rule.

A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence.

Three revolutionary women fight for freedom at the end of the nineteenth century.

This "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home.

Henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to intern at the Jaipur Palace in this tale rich in character, atmosphere, and lavish storytelling.

A symbologist and a cryptographer join forces to follow a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.

An adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.

o Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?

A mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the most prestigious classical music competition in the world.

Two former best friends return to their college reunion to find that they're being circled by someone who wants revenge for what they did ten years before--and will stop at nothing to get it.

Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition.

A former student returns to Cambridge University to investigate a murder involving a secret society of female students and a handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor.

Twenty-five years earlier, under terrible circumstances, three students committed a murder and buried the body in the gymnasium wall, the same wall that is about to be demolished to make way for a new building.

Set at a highly competitive performing arts high school in the 1980s, this book will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.

A novel about a woman who’s drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.

The true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.

A heartwarming and refreshing novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

A memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world.

A powerful novel based on the incredible true story of Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication.

Tells the story of a woman's desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of an oppressive dystopian regime...and the dark secrets about her family and community she uncovers along the way.

An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America.

One lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.

Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire.

Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.

A novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited.

A former slave rises above the harsh realities of being owned and colonialism on Montserrat working hard to buy freedom for herself, her mother, and her sister and becoming an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter.

A tale of fate, family, courage, and heartbreak--of an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come.

An epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home.

At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom ... inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman--Evangelina Cisneros--who changed the course of history.

"This is a multi-generational tale that explores how two families move forward from the tragedy that connects them.”

“This story of mothers and daughters aiming to understand one another across generations and cultures is one of my all-time favorites.”

“This story is rooted in an intriguing scenario, an unusual pair of sisters, and what their lives say about race and family and love in America."

“This story revolves around two mothers who seem very different from one another but who are similar in their determination to take care of and protect their children. It is a moving exploration of class, motherhood, and race.”

Work rivals trapped in a never-ending game of one-upmanship are up for the same promotion. Romance ensues.

America’s First Son falls for the UK’s most eligible prince when a PR disaster forces them to play nice for a change.

Rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom.

a. She desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding to prove she’s over her ex-fiancé, and he’s the work rival who’s secretly in love with her. Bonus – fake dating, large family.

Lina and Max’s story, where Lina is the wedding planner left at the alter and Max is the groom’s best man.

Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead characters to forget a real danger that has been set in motion and cannot be stopped.

A passionate and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians.

The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town.

Cesar Castillo, the Mambo King himself, is an old man, and is remembering his life (and loves) in Cuba and New York as he approaches death.

In this unique celebration of classical music, one inspirational piece is showcased for each day of the year.

A woman seemingly leaves a note, abandons her car, and walks right out of her life... but is that really what happened?

When Sera's favorite true-crime podcaster disappears, she sees it as an opportunity to put everything Rachel has ever taught to the test. Sera embarks on a solo journey to the dissolute ranch she believes Rachel was last seen, but not even a hundred episodes of a true-crime podcast could have trained her for this.

A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller

With a lack of support from local enforcement, it's up to Autumn to mend together the missing pieces of her twin sister's disappearance. The more she digs, the more she unearths about the troubled history her town has when it comes to bringing justice to female victims.

Tabitha’s first love returns to her after an unhappy marriage ends in his wife’s suicide. Then Tabitha finds a diary entry that says, “I'm writing this to raise an alarm in the event of my untimely death. If I die unexpectedly, it was foul play, and Connor was behind it. Connor-and her.”

A memoir from musician Michelle Zauner about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

France is a Feast documents, through intimate and compelling photographs, Julia Child discovering French cooking and the French way of life.

Anthony Bourdain’s wild-but-true memoir about 25 years working in restaurant kitchens.

This graphic novel invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product.

Chef Marcus Samuelsson's journey from Ethiopia, to Sweden, to France, to opening his own restuarant in NYC.

Centers around a paralyzed California millionaire with two psychopathic daughters; he involves Marlowe in a case of blackmail that turns into murder.

Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit.

A detective novel set in 1945, about two female private investigators trying to solve the locked-room murder of a society widow.

An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . .

Six women struggle in the shadow of a serial killer who was never apprehended.

In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives...but what happens after?

A sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private school--complete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson...

A tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite.

A propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.

A shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.

Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.

A sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.

In her hilarious book of essays, Retta shares the stories that led to her success in Hollywood.

Told with a healthy dose of self-deprecation, A Very Punchable Face reveals the brilliant mind behind some of the dumbest sketches on television, and lays bare the heart and humor of a hardworking guy-with a face you can't help but want to punch.

A powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman.

Heartbroken by the loss of her fiancé, adventurous Anna finds a second chance at love with an Irish sailor in this riveting, emotional romance.

A Star is Born meets Daisy Jones in this unique story following an all-female band on the brink of breaking out.

A young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street.

A witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science--or is it fate?

The second book in the Say Anything Series, following true-crime podcaster Andi Lockley and former firefighter Hill Dawson.

The first novel in the brand-new snarky, sassy, wickedly fun Sunshine Vicram series.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a new riveting novel featuring her vastly popular character forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her cell phone number.

The first book in J. D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York City homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.

The #1 NYT bestselling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in this thrilling novel of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense.

An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world.

A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry.

A crime comedy on a dentist who mutilates his hands to collect $5 million in insurance. Dr. George Veale is forced into the scam by a woman who videotaped a sex session and is blackmailing him. But after Veale collects he turns the tables.

Everyone knows about the immaculate conception and the crucifixion. But what happened to Jesus between the manger and the Sermon on the Mount? In this hilarious and bold novel, the acclaimed Christopher Moore shares the greatest story never told: the life of Christ as seen by his boyhood pal, Biff.

Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder, in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile.

When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.

Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn' t seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.

Two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.

Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show you.

When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A.J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

A baseball player attempts to heal his marriage with the help of his team's romance-novel book club.

A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

From acclaimed author Alyssa Cole comes the tale of a city Cinderella and her Prince Charming in disguise...

A charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him "rescuing" her from their office building goes viral.

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade.

A journalist uncovers the dark secrets of an abandoned boarding school in this chilling suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel.

NYT bestselling author Nalini Singh welcomes you to a remote town on the edge of the world where even the blinding brightness of the sun can't mask the darkness that lies deep within a killer.

A young woman discovers her mysterious powers could help catch a killer in the first book of The Diviners series--a stunning supernatural historical mystery set in 1920s New York City.

Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why.

A journalist uncovers the dark secrets of an abandoned boarding school in this chilling suspense novel.

London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter has been murdered at one of her own séances, after leaving a message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter.

In 1920's England, a young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle's mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost.

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.

A poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, and the ways we find meaning in our lives.

A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to fight for her dreams and choose her own future.

From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.

At once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.