Book Recommendations 2017 UCLS

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Union County Library System

The Smell of Others People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock The Graces by Laure Eve The Dead Father’s Club by Matt Haig The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls Gemini by Sonya Mukherjee Slade House by David Mitchel The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell A Tyranny of Petticoats by YA “Tyranny” The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows The Dinner by Herman Koch All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Wool Trilogy by Hugh Howey 11/22/63 by Stephen King The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins The Martian by Andy Weir Dark Places by Gillian Flynn The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Night Film by Marisha Pessl Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Brooklyn by Colm Toibin While the City Slept by Eli Sanders Seinfeldia: the Secret World of the “Show About Nothing” that Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Rooms by Lauren Oliver Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom The Painted House by John Grisham A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Horns by Joe Hill The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt White Oleander by Janet Fitch 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Ready, Player One by Ernest Cline Wonder by R.J. Palcio The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane The Opposite of Loneliness, Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan Her, A memoir. by Christa Parravani Look At Me by Jennifer Egan The Collected Stories by Grace Paley The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Book 1 of 4 The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr Under The Influence by Joyce Maynard 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

One woman’s struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal, from one of the greatest storytellers of our time (The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien) Supposedly brilliant students at a posh Vermont school are involved in two murders, one supposedly accidental and one deliberate (The Secret History by Donna Tartt) This sequel to The Shining follows Danny Torrance as an adult (Doctor Sleep by Stephen King) A lighthouse keeper and his grieving wife find a baby (The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman) A murder is narrated by the victim. (The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold) Actor, Alan Cummings, memoir of emotional abuse (Not My Father’s Son) Freaks, a mermaid, a factory fire and a photographer.

(The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman) Falling deeply in love twelve hours before being deported.

(Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon) Fruit holds the key to the murder of a disgraced scientist.

(The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge)

Follow a dynasty of witches across four centuries (The Witching Hour by Anne Rice) A brief analysis on the beauty of cheese, hot dogs, and deep fried twinkies (Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan) A stunning, intimate re-imagining of Norma Jeane Baker AKA Marilyn Monroe (Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates)

Famous artist’s death brings together unlikely friends and vandalism. (Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Blunt)

Nothing makes you realize how goofy life is until you’re voluntarily committed to a psych ward (It’s Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini)

Mystery, ghost story and romance rolled into one.

(Carry on! By Rainbow Rowell)

What was he like before he frankly didn’t give a damn?

(Rhett Butler’s People by Daniel McCaig)

Nazis invade France, Vianne and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything (The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah)

Did you ever wonder what the first Mrs. Rochester thought about Jane Eyre? (Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys)

A sophisticated mystery where an elderly woman with dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared (Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey) Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister, Jane: a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator (Book of Ages by Jill Lepore) A window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein’s enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein’s wife (The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict) Sara traveled in from Sweden to meet her book-loving pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy’s funeral (The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald)

Books are not a suitable substitution for firewood, especially in an age of ignorance (Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury) The true story of a twin sister’s life after her twin Cara dies suddenly, how she lives on without her other half. (Her: A Memoir by Christa Parravani) The story of a mass school shooting in the wake of Columbine and others, but from the perspective of the shooter, a heartbreaking account of the effects of bullying in a public school atmosphere. (19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult) A collection of essays, stories, and some memoir writing by Marian Keegan compiled after her sudden and unexpected death in a car accident only 5 days after graduation at the age of 22. (The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan)

An incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. (The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan)

In the forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within it’s pages are 9 key insights to life itself insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially, one insight then another, as we move toward a completely spiritual culture on Earth. (The Celestine Prophecy, An Adventure

by James Redfield)

Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life - and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating (The Girl Before by JP Delaney)

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Follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea (The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson)

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