The Eternal Question: “What Should I Read Next?”
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Here are some reading suggestion lists that we’ve curated over the years. If you don’t see something you like, please stop by the Reference Desk or give us a call at 856-667-0300 option 2.
- F BLO In Sunlight or in Shadow by Lawrence Block
- F CHE The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- F KEA A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley
- F KLI A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
- F SHA The Collector’s Apprentice by B.A. Shapiro
- F SHA The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
- F SIL Mary Coin by Marissa Silver
- F TAR The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- F ADA The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
- F BIV The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald
- F BRO Talk Bookish to Me by Kate Bromley
- F BRO The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
- F CHA The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
- F CLA The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
- F DAV The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
- F FOR Juliet by Anne Fortier
- F FRA The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
- F FOW The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
- F HEN Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- F MOY The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- CD F PAT The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
- F RIC The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- F SHA The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
- F SWY The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
- F WAX The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
- F WHE Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
- F WIG The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
- M SWA Eight perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
- 027.4794 ORL The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- FIC BAC Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- FIC BOH The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
- FIC CAR The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- FIC CAR Virgin River by Robyn Carr
- FIC CAT The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- FIC CHO The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
- FIC FER My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- FIC GAI Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
- FIC HAN Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
- FIC HAR A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- FIC HOR High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- FIC JAM Turn of the Screw (The Haunting of Bly Manor) by Henry James
- FIC KEP You by Caroline Kepnes
- FIC KIN Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
- FIC KIN The Outsider by Stephen King
- FIC KIN The Stand by Stephen King
- FIC KOR You Should Have Known (The Undoing) by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- FIC LAM I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
- FIC LAN Defending Jacob by William Landay
- FIC MAN Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- FIC MCB The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- FIC MER American Rust by Philipp Meyer
- FIC MOR Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
- FIC NG Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- FIC NUT Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
- FIC PER Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta
- FIC QUI The Duke and I (Bridgerton) by Julia Quinn
- FIC RIC What in God’s Name (Miracle Workers) by Simon Rich
- FIC RUF Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
- FIC TEV The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
- FIC WHI The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- GN FIC ENN The Boys by Garth Ennis
- GN FIC HIL Locke & Key by Joe Hill
- GN FIC LEM Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire
- GN FIC SNO Snowpiercer by Jaques Lob
- GN FIC VAU Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
- GN FIC WAY The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way
- B FEL Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
- B WAL On Her Own Ground (Self Made) by A’Lelia Bundles
- M BOX The Highway (Big Sky) by C.J. Box
- M JEN Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve) by Luke Jennings
- SF JOR The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan
- 331.481 LAN Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
- 362.29 MAC Dopesick by Beth Macy
- 364.1532 MCN I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
- 818 WES Shrill by Lindy West
- 363.2509 GOL
18 tiny deaths: the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics / Bruce Goldfarb; introduction by Judy Melinek, MD. 2020. - B ROBERTS, C
Cokie: A Life Well Lived / Steven V. Roberts, 2021 - B EL KALIOUBY
A Girl decoded: a scientist’s quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology / Rana el Kaliouby, with Carol Colman, 2020. - B JOHNSON,K.
My remarkable journey: a memoir by Katharine Johnson; with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore and with Lisa Frazier Page, 2021 - 304.2 GOO
The book of hope: a survival guide for trying times / Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams, 2021 - B MERKEL, A.
The chancellor – the remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel / Kati, Marton, 2021 - B DOUDNA, J.
The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race / Walter Isaacson, 2021 - B BLACKWELL, E.
The doctors Blackwell : how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women–and women to medicine / Janice P. Nimura, 2021 - 940.53092 EDE
The girls who stepped out of line: untold stories of the women who changed the course of world war ii / Mari K. Eder, 2021 - 640.92 DRE
The secret history of home economics : how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live / Danielle Dreilinger., 2021 - B SEAGER,S.
The smallest lights in the universe: a memoir / Sara Seager, 2020. - 339.2 HIL
There is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the 21st century / Fiona Hill, 2021 - B PAY
What stars are made of: the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin / Donovan Moore; foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, 2020.
- 303.625 PRE The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
- 362.11 FIN Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
- 362.1969 FRA How to Survive a Plague by David France
- 362.29 MAC Dopesick by Beth Macy
- 363.25 MCD Forensics by Val McDermid
- 611 ROA Stiff by Mary Roach
- 614.4 GAR The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
- 614.49 KEN The Plague Cycle by Charles Kenny
- 614.4951 GRE China Syndrome by Karl Taro Greenfeld
- 614.5 LEV Deadly Outbreaks by Alexandra M. Levitt
- 614.514 JOH The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
- 614.518 BRO Influenza by Jeremy Brown
- 614.518 SPI Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
- 614.541 CRO The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby
- 614.57 PRE The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
- 616.02774 SKL The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- 616.8527 ARM The Valedictorian of Being Dead by Heather B. Armstrong
- 616.89 KOL Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
- 616.9041 STR The Perfect Predator by Steffanie Strathdee
- 616.944 MUK The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddartha Mukherjee
- 617.092 FIT The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
- B BUR All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
- B FAR Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- B HAR The Beauty in Breaking by Michelle Harper
- B KAL When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- B LYN Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey
These books have no graphic violence or four-letter words. Each title below is
one in a series of books about the same character.
- M ALB Thyme of Death by Susan Wittig Albert
- M ATH Aunt Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton
- M BES Smile Beach Murder by Alicia Bessette
- M BOW Evans Above by Rhys Bowen
- M BRI Mrs. Jeffries and the Three Wise Women by Emily Brightwell
- M BRA The Cat who could Read Backwards by Lillian Jackson Braun
- M CHI Scones and Bones by Laura Childs
- M DAV Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
- M DEA Bellfield Hall by Anna Dean
- M DUN Superfluous Women by Carola Dunn
- M FIF Killer Stuff by Sharon Sloan Fiffer
- M FLU Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
- M GOL Death by Cashmere by Sally Goldenbaum
- M HAL A Clue for the Puzzle lady by Parnell Hall
- M HAR Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
- M HAR Slugfest by Rosemary Harris
- M MAL Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet
- M WEA Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver
Australia
Austria
Botswana
Canada
China
Denmark
England
- M AIR River of Darkness by Rennie Airth (John Madden)
- M CRO A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James)
- M GAL The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (Cormoran Strike)
- M GEO A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley)
- M GRI The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
- M HOR Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (Susan Ryeland)
- M LOV Diamond Solitaire by Peter Lovesey (Peter Diamond)
- M PER The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt)
- M PER The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry (William Monk)
- M WIN Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs)
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
India
Ireland
Italy
North Korea
Norway
Russia
Scotland
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
- 306.8743 Brown Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement by Harriet Brown
- 362.29 Ruta With or Without You by Domenica Ruta
- 770.92 Frank Cherry Hill: A Childhood Reimagined by Jona Frank
- 973.5 Cooper Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
- B Alexie You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
- GN B Bechdel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- B Black The Book of Atlantis Black by Betsy Bonner
- B Brandeis The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide by Gayle Brandeis
- B Brodeur Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
- B Grande The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
- B Gregory Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
- B Harry Spare by Prince Harry
- B Karr The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
- GN B Kimball And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaret Kimball
- B Lawson Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
- B Lockwood Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
- B McCurdy I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- CD B Miller Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller
- B Scheier Never Simple by Liz Scheier
- B Spiegelman I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This by Nadja Spiegelman
- B Trump Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump
- B Walls The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- B Wariner The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
- B Westover Educated by Tara Westover
- F ALV How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- F ANS Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
- F BEN The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- F BLA The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
- F BRE The Forever Summer by Jamie Brenner
- F DIA The Boston Girl by Anita Diamont
- F HAN The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
- F MCD After This by Alice McDermott
- F MCM Who Asked You? By Terry McMillan
- F MEL A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy
- F PAT Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- F SMI On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- F SWE The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
- F SWY The Book of Speculation by Erica Swyler
- F TYL A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
- F WAR The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward
- F WIL The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
- M BOW Murphy’s Law by Rhys Bowen
- M CAS Heat Wave by Richard Castle
- M CON The Late Show by Michael Connelly
- M COR Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell
- M DIS Swift Justice by Laura DiSilverio
- M EVA One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
- M EVA The Heist by Janet Evanovich
- M FRE In the Woods by Tana French
- M GAR Alone by Lisa Gardner
- M GER The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
- M GRA A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
- M HAR Shakespeare’s Landlord by Charlaine Harris
- M HIL Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman
- M KIJ Honky Tonk Kat by Karen Kijewski
- M KON Whiskey Sour by Joe Konrath
- M LIP No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman
- F McL When the Stars go Dark by Paula McLain
- F MOO Long Bright River by Liz Moore
- M MUL Listen to the Silence by Marcia Muller
- M OLS Sacred Cows by Karen E. Olson
- M PAR Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky
- M PAR Family Honor by Robert B. Parker
- M PER The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry
- M ROB Till the End of Tom by Gillian Roberts
- M SCO Devil’s Corner by Lisa Scottoline
- M TAY The Mountains Wild by Sarah Stewart Taylor
- M WIN Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Fiction Shelf
- FIC ARD The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- FIC BAR Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
- FIC BAR Lexicon by Max Barry
- FIC CLA Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- FIC FFO The Eyre Affair by Jasper Ffforde
- FIC GAI Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- FIC GRO The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- FIC HAR Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- FIC MOR Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- FIC O’MA The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
- FIC SER Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
- FIC SHA The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Science Fiction Shelf
- SF AND All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- SF ARN The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold
- SF BAR Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- SF BAT The Waking Land by Callie Bates
- SF BEN Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
- SF CAL Master of Sorrows by Justin T. Call
- SF CAM The City of Lost Fortunes by Bryan Camp
- SF CAR Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
- SF CHA The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
- SF CHO Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- SF CLA A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
- SF COG The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
- SF GAI Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
- SF JOH The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
- SF KLU House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- SF KUA The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
- SF LAC Wizard of London by Mercedes Lackey
- SF LEE Jade City by Fonda Lee
- SF LUK Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
- SF MAA House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas
- SF MAG Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- SF NOV Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
- SF PRA The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- SF ROT Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- SF SAN Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
- SF SCH A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
- F AWA Bunny by Mona Awad
- F BEU Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
- F BOO The Mansion by Ezekiel Boone
- F CAR The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
- F CHO The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
- F CLE The Cleaner by Paul Cleave
- F CRO The Passage by Justin Cronin
- F CUT The Deep by Nick Cutter
- F DAR Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
- F HAM A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
- F HAR The Return by Rachel Harrison
- F HEN We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
- F HIL NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
- F HUN Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
- F JON The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- F KOR So Cold the River by Michael Koryta
- F LEN Broken River by J. Robert Lennon
- F MAC Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
- F MAL Bird Box by Josh Malerman
- F MCC The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- F MCM The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
- F MIT Slade House by David Mitchell
- F MON Perfect Days by Raphael Montes
- F MON Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- F NDI That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye
- F OLD Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- F PHI The Need by Helen Phillips
- F PUR The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
- F REI Foe by Iain Reid
- F SHE The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
- F SIM The Terror by Dan Simmons
- F SMI The Ruins by Scott Smith
- F STA Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
- F TRE The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
- F WHI Zone One by Colson Whitehead
- F WOO The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
- SF GRA Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
- SF HAW The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
- SF MAG The Hike by Drew Magary
Irish Authors
These prolific fiction writers set many of their works in Ireland with Irish characters.
- Cecelia Ahern – start with P.S., I Love You (Fiction AHE)
- John Banville – start with The Sea (Fiction BAN)
- Kevin Barry – start with City of Bohane (Fiction BAR)
- Maeve Binchy – start with Tara Road (Fiction BIN)
- Frank Delaney – start with Ireland (Fiction DEL)
- Emma Donoghue – start with The Pull of the Stars (Fiction DON)
- Roddy Doyle – start with A Star Called Henry (Fiction DOY)
- Anne Enright – start with The Gathering (Fiction ENR)
- Erin Hart – start with Haunted Ground (Fiction HAR)
- Felicity Hayes-McCoy – start with The Library at the Edge of the World (Fiction HAY)
- James Joyce – start with Dubliners (Fiction JOY)
- Cathy Kelly – start with Someone Like You (Fiction KEL)
- Marian Keyes – start with Watermelon (Fiction KEY)
- Edna O’Brien – start with The Little Red Chairs (Fiction O’BR)
- Sally Rooney – start with Normal People (Fiction ROO)
- Patrick Taylor – start with An Irish Country Doctor (Fiction TAY)
- Sarah Stewart Taylor The Mountains Wild (Mystery TAY)
- Colm Toibin – start with Brooklyn (Fiction TOI)
- Niall Williams – start with History of the Rain (Fiction WIL)
- Tana French – start with In the Woods (Mystery FRE)
Additional Fiction Titles
- Fiction BEH Kathleen: A Dublin Saga by Brian Behan
- Fiction BER Northern Spy by Flynn Berry
- Fiction BRE The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
- Fiction FAL The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
- Fiction GAL Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
- Fiction GRI When All is Said by Anne Griffin
- Fiction IRI Irish Girls About Town: An Anthology of Short Stories
- Fiction KEA The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
- Fiction KEL Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
- Fiction NIA Civil and Strange by Clair Ni Aonghusa
- Fiction SUL Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
- Fiction URI Trinity by Leon Uris
- Mystery MCT The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Biography and Memoir
- F BRO Starfire by Dale Brown
- F CHR A Single Spy by William Christie
- F DEU Pacific Glory by P.T. Deutermann
- F FUR Black Site by Dalton Fury
- F GRI Men at War Series by W.E.B. Griffin
- F HAL The Shores of Tripoli by James Haley
- F HOU Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg by John Hough
- F KIL Winter Soldiers by Garry Douglas Kilworth
- F KLA Redeployment by Phil Klay
- F MAR Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
- F MUR The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy
- F POY Fire on the Waters by David Poyar
- F QUI The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- F SHA Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Shaara
- F SHA To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara
- F VAN Spoils by Brian Van Peet
- F AUD The Push by Ashley Audrain
- F COL The Accidental Mother by Rowan Coleman
- F DAN Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
- F EVA Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- F FIT White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- F GIB Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
- F KWO Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- F MEI Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
- F MOR Beloved by Toni Morrison
- F NG Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- F PAT The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
- F POE Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel
- F STR All Adults Here by Emma Straub
- F STR Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
- F STR My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- F TAN The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- F VID And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida
- F WAL Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
- Bio ALL Paula by Isabel Allende
- Bio BRO Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
- Bio DID The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Bio WAL The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Mystery
Non-Fiction
- 614.541 POW Bring out your Dead: The Great Plague…in Philadelphia in 1793 by J. H. Powell
- 720.9748 LEW Philadelphia Builds: Essays on Architecture by Michael J. Lewis
- 779.4 ELL Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City by Joseph E.B. Elliott
- 974.811 BIS A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger
- B FRANKLIN The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- B MUTTER Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
- F BRO World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- F CAR The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
- F CRO The Passage by Justin Cronin
- F DAV Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
- F HEL The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- F KIN The Stand by Stephen King
- F LEM Sweet Tooth deluxe edition, book 1 by Jeff Lemire
- F MAL Bird Box by Josh Malerman
- F MAN Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- F MAR The New Hunger: A Warm Bodies Novella by Isaac Marion
- F MCC The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- F PER The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy
- M LEW The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
- SF BUT Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- SF LEP California by Edan Lepucki
- SF RUI Mind Storm by K.M. Ruiz
- M ABB Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
- FIC AUD The Push by Ashley Audrain
- FIC BAR The Herd by Andrea Bartz
- FIC BRA My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- FIC CHA Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
- M DOW My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
- FIC DUM Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- FIC FLY Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- FIC HAR The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
- FIC HEP The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
- FIC KUB Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica
- SF MIL Rabbits by Terry Miles
- FIC PAR Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
- FIC RUS Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
- FIC SCH Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
- FIC SCH See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
- M SLA Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
- M STE Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
- M WAR The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
- FIC ADA The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams (Bromance Book Club Series)
- FIC BAI Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey (Hot & Hammered)
- FIC BAI It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey (Bellinger Sisters)
- FIC BEL Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (Written in the Star)
- FIC CHA Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Lynda Chase
- FIC COC The Royal We by Heather Cocks (The Royal We)
- FIC COL An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole (Loyal League)
- FIC COL The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (Scottish Bookshop)
- FIC COL A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem by Manda Collins (A Lady’s Guide)
- FIC DAD The Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert)
- FIC DAN The Roommate by Rosie Danan (The Roommate)
- FIC DAR You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria (Primas of Power)
- FIC DEL Well Met by Jen DeLuca (Well Met)
- FIC DUN Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore (A League of Extraordinary Women)
- FIC GUI The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory (Wedding Date)
- FIC HEN Beach Read by Emily Henry
- FIC HER Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron
- FIC HIB Get a Life Chloe Brown by Tailia Hibbert (Brown Sisters)
- FIC HO Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho
- FIC HO Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev (The Rajes)
- FIC HOA The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (Kiss Quotient)
- FIC HUN Meet Cute by Helena Hunting
- FIC JIM The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez (Friend Zone)
- FIC KIN Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella
- FIC LAU The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren
- FIC MAC The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean (Scandal & Scoundrel)
- FIC MCF If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
- FIC MCQ One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
- FIC ORE Love at First Like by Hannah Orenstein
- FIC PER When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
- FIC PIS Love Songs for Skeptics by Christina Pishiris
- FIC RAI The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai (Modern Love)
- FIC ROC The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon (Boyfriend Project)
- FIC SOL The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
- FIC THO The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
- PB FIC COL How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole (Runaway Royals)
Fans of Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, a smart, suspenseful novel turned into a hit HBO series, may enjoy these other engaging domestic dramas.
- F CON The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
- F DEL The Woman Next Door by Barbara Delinsky
- F HAN Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
- F HEN The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
- F HEP The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
- F JEW The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
- F KNO Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
- F KOR You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- M LAP The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
- F MAC MRS. by Caitlin Macy
- F PER Little Children by Tom Perrotta
- F PIC My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- F SIT American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
- F TSI The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
- F WEI Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
The Sophie Brody Award is funded by Sophie and Arthur Brody Foundation and is given to encourage, recognize and commend outstanding achievement in Jewish literature.
2022
Honorable Mention
909.04924 HOR People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
364.152 OPP Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood by Mark Oppenheimer
362.734 GLA American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser
2021
FIC SAR The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid
Honorable Mention
FIC GRO The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
FIC YEH The Tunnel by A. B Yehoushua
BIO NEUMANN When Time Stopped: A Memoir of my Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
2020
Honorable Mention
FIC HOF The World That we Knew by Alice Hoffman
2019
FIC LUK The Last Watchmen of Old Cairo by Michael Lukas
Honorable Mention
2018
Honorable Mention
2017
FIC CHA Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Honorable Mention
BIO FRIEDMAN Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story by Matti Friedman
2016
FIC SHE The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Honorable Mention
381.45 ABR The House of Twenty Thousand books by Sasha Abramsky
2015
FIC FIS A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman
2014
Honorable Mention
956.05 SHA My Promised Land The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit
2013
Honorable Mention
FIC ENG What we Talk About When we Talk about Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
FIC MAR I am Forbidden by Anouk Markovitz
FIC WOU The Lawgiver by Herman Wouk
2012
Honorable Mention
741.5 SPI Metamaus by Art Spiegelman
956.9405 SEB Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
2011
296.41 SHU The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz
Honorable Mention
FIC NEV Homesick by Eshkol Nevo
2010
FIC KEA The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-six by Jonathon Keats
Honorable Mention
296.32 KON The Jewish Body by Melvin Konner
940.5318 BUE A Lucky Child: A memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a young boy by Thomas Buergenthal
- F ATK Transcription by Kate Atkinson
- F BLA The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- F BOW In Fairleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
- F CAN The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
- F DOE All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- F DON The Death’s Head Chess Club by John Donoghue
- F FLA The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- F FOR Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- F HAN The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- F JEN The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
- F KEI The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
- F KEL Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- F MAS The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason
- F MEA Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
- F MEI The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
- F NEM Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
- F PEA Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
- F QUI The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
- F QUI The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
- F ROS The Girl from Krakow by Alex Rosenberg
- F ROS Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- F RYA The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan
- F SHA The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- F SKE The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
- F STY Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
- F ZUS The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
- Non-Fiction
- 940.53082 MOO A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary story of Women, Friendship and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead
- 940.5318 ACK The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
- 940.5318 HEL Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
- 940.5318 WIE Night by Elie Wiesel
YA books with compelling plots and writing that adults will enjoy
- Y ADE Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Y BER Lovely War by Julie Berry
- Y BLA Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
- Y DAO Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
- Y ELL Wings of Ebony by J. Elle
- Y FAI We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
- Y FOR The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
- Y IRE Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
- Y JAC Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
- Y LEE The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
- Y LEG Furyborn by Claire Legrand
- Y MAA A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Y MAN Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
- Y SEP The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
- Y SHU Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Y TAH An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir