From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?

With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, AudioFile, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.

In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law’s property, encounters the woman she used to love—leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she’s built.

Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the May 2024 LibraryReads Top Ten List.

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia.

What better way to spend National Library Week than dreaming about getting lost in the stacks of ancient, vast, and downright magical fictional libraries?

Come nighttime these current and former library staff are writing the next big novel you’ll sink your teeth into. Browse below for forthcoming and recently published recs in mysteries, romance, fantasy, and more.

James McBride, Lisa Wingate, Chris Whitaker, and John Schu celebrate National Library Week with heartfelt video messages for librarians and library lovers everywhere!

Watch these videos to see Lisa Scottoline play the World’s Greatest Word Game to celebrate her love for libraries!

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.

For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate…. Now it’s up to her great-niece to catch the killer.

With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, AudioFile, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.