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Good Reads

Need to find your next read? We’ve rounded up our favorite fiction and nonfiction titles, plus what is next on our reading list. Maybe these books will become your new favorites.

Fiction

Disappearing Earth

In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, this powerful novel provides a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.

The Margot Affair

The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that will shatter her family in this beguiling debut novel of intrigue and betrayal.

News of the World

An aging rancher travels Texas to read the news to audiences in small towns for a dime a person. He is offered a large fee to return a captured 10-year-old white girl, who identifies only as a Kiowa Indian, back to her hometown.

One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

Two women must join their families to survive the harsh winter on the prairie after one of their husbands killed the other husband after learning of his wife’s affair.

Trust Exercise

This novel follows the intense relationships and betrayals among high school friends and their teachers at a performing-arts high school in a sprawling southern city. 

The Vanishing Half

A well-told story of twin girls who grow up in a small, southern town that is populated by light-skinned African Americans.  Their very connected lives dramatically split after they leave their hometown.

NonFiction

The Girl with Seven Names

The true story of a young ambitious woman who defects from North Korea.

On Our list

The Guest LIST

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie.

The Last Kings of Shanghai

An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era.