“What Are You Reading Now?” Complete Book List
July 9, 2018
As promised, here is the complete list of books and authors recommended by readers in Lackawanna County. Click on the link to put a certain title on hold or explore the catalog more on the website. Happy Reading!
Abington Community Library
All-American Murder: the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murders’ row by James Patterson and Alex Abramovich with Mike Harvkey
The Woman In the Window by A.J. Finn
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
Alice McDermott
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
President Reagan: The Role of A Lifetime by Lou Cannon
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Issacson
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Improvement by Joan Silber
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Middlemarch by George Eliot
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
A Capitol Journey: Reflections on the Press, Politics, and the Making of Public Policy in Pennsylvania by Vincent P. Carocci
The Pigeon Tunnel: stories from my life by John Le Carre
Crow Country by Mark Cocker
Carbondale Public Library
Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
The Breakdown by B. A. Paris
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
The Lying Gate by Ruth Ware
The Home For Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
Serena by Ron Rash
Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Brass by Zhenet Aliu
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Hillary’s America: the secret history of the Democratic Party by Dinesh D’Souza
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Still Life by Louise Penny
Killer Takes All by Erica Spindler
The Last Child by John Hart
Hush by John Hart
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
3500: An Autistic Boy’s Ten-Year Romance with Snow White by Ron Miles
The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
A Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Wish You Well by David Baldacci
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Gifts from the Sea by Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple
Dalton Community Library
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Charles Dickens
John Grisham
Thomas Hardy
Lisa Scottoline
Albright Memorial Library
A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley
The Book Thieves: the Nazi looting of Europe’s libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance by Anders Rydell; translated by Henning Koch
The Monuments Men: Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history by Robert Edsel
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Issacson
Coming to My Senses: the making of a counterculture cook by Alice Waters
Manhattan Project
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
The Golem and The Jinni by Helene Wecker
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
Hillbilly Elegy: a memoir of family and culture in crisis by J.D. Vance
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and mourning on the American right by Arlie R. Hochschild
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Georgette Hyer
Troubling A Star by Madeleine L’Engle
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
Honestly, Ben by Bill Konigsberg
Almost Human by Lee Berger
John Green
Percy Jackson
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore
Jane Austen
Emma Straub
Barbara Taylor
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
Sarah MacLean
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Valley Community Library
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Whistler by John Grisham
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night by Barbara Taylor
Dracula by Bram Stoker
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Confederacy of Dunces by John Toole
A Slip Under the Microscope by H.G. Wells
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
7 Lessons From Heaven by Mary C. Neal, M.D.
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Last Suppers by Mandy Mikulencak
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne
Needful Things by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
The Dark Half by Stephen King
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
Fiddler In the Subway by Gene Weingarten
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers by Elizabeth Cobb
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
The Lights in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Saving Sophie by Ronald Balson
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Murder As A Fine Art by David Morrell
City of Women by David R. Gillham
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Garden of Beasts by Jeffrey Deaver
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
The Distant of Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
A Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Lisa Scottoline
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
A Stanger In the House by Shari Lapena
Posted by John David Anderson
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
Taylor Public Library
Anne Hazelwood
Janet Evanovich
Lisa Scottoline
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo
Defending Jacob by William Landay
19 Minutes and My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Mending Fences by Sherryl Woods
Jojo Moyes
James Patterson
The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Marta Perry
Savannah Reid
Joanna Fluke
Lucy Stone
Melanie Travis
Grace Livingston Hill
Jude Deveraux
The Taster by V.S. Alexander
The Recipe Box by Viola Shipman
The Red Thread by Ann Hood
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
The Buddha in the Attic by Julia Otsuka
Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons by Lorna Landvik
Steve Martini
Danielle Steel
Nicolas Sparks
Joanna Fowler
Under Gemini by Rosamunde Pilcher
Lincoln Pierce
George Guy
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Meg Cabot and Jenny Han
David Baldacci
Christina Kline
Adriana Trigiani
The Saddlemaker’s Wife by Earlene Fowler
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
