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A Book List for Book Lovers
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Nov 7, 2017
by Pressroom
Recommended by Yvonne Selander, SCLSNJ's collection development supervisor
The Past
- “The Witchfinder’s Sister” by Beth Underdown
- “The Good People” by Hannah Kent
- “The Unquiet Grave” by Sharyn McCrumb
- “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles
- “The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir” by Jennifer Ryan
The Not So Distant Past
- “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate
- “As Good As Gone” by Larry Watson
- “If the Creek Don’t Rise” by Leah Weiss
- “The Gargoyle Hunters” by John Freeman Gill
Most Dangerous Profession
- “Magpie Murders” by Anthony Horowitz
- “The Weight of Lies” by Emily Carpenter
- “Unraveling Oliver” by Liz Nugent
It’s a Mystery!
- “Snowblind” by Ragnar Jonasson
- “The Black Book” by James Patterson and David Ellis
- “Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore” by Matthew Sullivan
Thinking Books
- “This is How It Always Is” by Laurie Frankel
- “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman
- “Sycamore” by Bryn Chancellor
- “An American Marriage” by Tayari Jones
Touch of Romance
- “Dirty Dancing at Devil’s Leap” by Julie Anne Long
- “A Duke in Shining Armor” by Loretta Chase
- “Close Enough to Touch” by Colleen Oakley
Women Kicking Butt and Taking Names
- “The Marsh King’s Daughter” by Karen Dionne
- “The Child Finder” by Rene Denfeld
- “Artemis” by Andy Weir
- “Need to Know” by Karen Cleveland
Girl…Her...Woman...
- “The Girl Before” by JP Delaney
- “Final Girls” by Riley Sager
- “Behind Her Eyes” by Sarah Pinborough
- “The Woman in the Window” by A. J. Finn