| Book_Title | Author | Completed | Notes | Quotes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Chance | James Patterson & Andrew Gross | Jan 5, 2026 | Women's Murder Club - Racial killings | |
| 4th of July | James Patterson & Maxine Paetro | Dec 23, 2025 | Women's Murder club. Det. Lindsay Boxer on trial for murder | |
| 61 Hours | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - Bus crash in savage snowstorm. Bolton, ND. Meth cartel operating at nearby abondoned military facility. Wants to kill elderly witness, who saw operation. Story connected to Worth Dying For | |
| A Wanted Man | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacherhitch hiking in Nebraska, getting picked up by a car with 3 people inside. One man driving, no eye contact, one may telling stories that don't add up, and a scared woman in back with reacher. Professional kill & kidnapping. | |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | Mar 16, 2025 | ||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | Nov 8, 2025 | WW II Written in First person | |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Nov 8, 2025 | Blind French Girl WW II | |
| Anxious People | Fredrik Backman | Oct 8, 2026 | Sweden - A botched bank robbery, a hostage drama, a bridge, a love story, "stockholmers" and idiots. An apartment open house, the realtor, Zara (rich ex-banker), Anna-Lena & Roger (retired and looking for DIY fixer uppers), Ro & pregnant wife Julia, limes, Estelle (87), a locked bathroom (Lennart in his underwear & stuck in a rabbit head), a large closet with a draft, pizza, fireworks, an empty apartment across the hall. Older police officer Jim, his son Jack, younger police officer. A dropped drawing of a monkey, a frog and an elk. Nadia psychologist treats Zara who has carried a paticular letter in her purse for 10 years. Hostages freed, apt door locked, blood on the carpet, missing bank robber. | Man on the bridge to teenage boy - Because that was a parent's job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they're little so they can see the world,then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure. They trust us, which is a crushing responsiblity, because they haven't yet realized that we don't actuall know what we're doing. So the man did what we all do he pretended he knew. The problem is that everything is relative, happiness is based on expectations,ad we have the Internet now. A whole world constantly asking us: "But is your life as perfect as this/ Well? How about now? Is it as perfect as this? If it isn't, change it!" The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the internet, they wouldn't spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who is having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it is full of shit. Psychologist to Zara - You seem to get caught up in a lot of disagreements. One technique I'd recommend is to ask yourself three questions before you flare up. One: are the actions of the peersonin questiion intended to harm you personally? Two: Do you possess all of the information about the situation? Three: Do you have anythng to gain from a conflict? Parenthood can lead to sequence of years when the childrens feelings suck all of the oxygen out of a family, and that can be so emotionally intense that some adults go for years without having an opportunity to tell anyone about their own feelings, and if you don't get a chance for long enough, sometimes you simply forget how to do it. Jack's mother (a priest who goes abroad to dangerous places) - "Boats that stay in the harbor are safe, sweetheaart, but that's not what boats were built for." But if there's one thing modern life and the Internet have taught us, it's that you should never expect to win a discussion simply because you are right. They say that a person's personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn't true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we'd never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we're more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows. The truth. There isn't any. All we managed to find out about the boundries of the universe is that it hasn't got any, and all we know about God is that we don't know anything. So the only thing a Mom who was a Priest demanded of her familywas simple: that we do our best. We plant an apple tree today, ewven if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow. We save those we can. |
| Atmosphere - A love Story | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Mar 22, 2026 | 1984. Women in space shuttle program. Will not allow "deviant sexual behavior" of 2 of the astronauts that are lesbians. | |
| Better Off Dead | Lee Child & Andrew Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - Heading West. Jeep has crashed into tree. Woman is FBI agent trying to locate her brother who is mixed up with dangerous people. | |
| Blue Moon | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - Elderly couple owes big money to dangerous people. Brutal turf war between Ukrainian & Albanian gangs. | |
| Buckeye | Patrick Ryan | Aug 12, 2026 | Bonhomie, Ohio. Historiacl fiction spans multiple decades from WWII through late 20th century. Cal Jenkins- one leg shorter than the other feels isolated because he cannot serve in the war. Wife Becky Jenkins is a "seer" who shares her talent for free. Felix Salt - successful busnissman who later joins the Navy. Comes back totally changed because of his liason with fellow sailor Augie. Wife Margaret Salt - tries to bury her past and can't face her life as a mother with hidden secrets. | Becky in the cemetery at Mrs. Dodson's grave stone - She never attempted to communicate with Mrs. Dodson or any other spirit while she was at the cemetery. Mrs. Dodson, in a dream, had told her not to bother. Spirits didn't linger in graveyards, she'd said. Why would they? There was nothing to do, nothing to observe. And it was true: Becky never felt the presence of any spirits when she was here. The place was like an abandoned motel. She understood why people talked to the graves of their loved ones, of course it was the same reason they came to her parlor but she lamented all those one-sided cemetery conversations. Secrets, regrets, and apologies. These made up the stuff of his life. But there was nothing to be done with them, apparently, and no filing them away. Margaret had been overwhelmed by all the secrets and had spilled the beans only to have those beans sprout and grow more secrets. Skip wasn't to know what had happened between them. Becky's parents and Cal's father weren't to know. Tom wasn't to know the truth of his lineage, for now - or perhaps ever. And if Becky had made any ultimate decision about Cal in her heart, that was another secret. He couldn't undo what he'd done, and without being able to do that, he had no idea how he would ever convince her to take him back. He'd apologized to her a hundred times, until she'd told him to stop, said she'd heard him, and reminded him that those two words, I'm sorry, were very easy to say and literally changed nothing. Was he mistaking her for someone else? Did she look like some-one who'd been through an ordeal? "Fine," she said. "How are you?" "Well, I'll tell you." He laid one of his swollen hands on the newel post. "A person can get whiplash just walking through life. They love your allegro but loathe your troppo. They invite you to lunch, then shit in your soup. Know what I mean? What is it about time that confounds us? We spend it. We save it. We while it away. we waste it. 'We kill it. We complain about not having enough of it, or about having too much of it on our hands. We regret what we've done with it. We give it away. 'We want it back. We say "time and again" when something is bothering us and "it's time " when something is supposed to end. Felix saw it so clearly: all we should ever want of time is more of it. Life was so simple when it was reduced to the barest of necessities: more time, more air. The wisdom that comes with age was needling, he found, because it brought the clarity of hindsight without the means to change anything. He'd spent so much of his early adulthood thinking he'd been truncated in life, because of his leg. Because he hadn't been able to say he'd served in a war, that great marker of identity. But war had marked his father in a manner that had left him forever damaged, and it had wiped Skip's mark away completely. They were the truncated ones - them and countless others who'd gone before and were doubtless to follow, since the world that purported to want peace seemed always to be at war. All Cal had had to do was pick up the pieces of his own mistakes. In fact, that, as he saw it now, was his life's work: trying to make right what he'd gotten wrong. Maybe that was what Sean Robison had been talking about in the fourth grade; maybe Cal's special thing was his determination, after taking a wrecking ball to his life, to put it back together. Wasn't it a fair measure of a person, what they did with their mistakes? How they managed to stumble into some of the right steps, after taking all the wrong ones? This is why old people seem distant and distracted, he thought. We aren't living in the past; the past is living in us. And it's talking. We get old to be able to recalibrate everything we thought was going to be important. We get old just to hear it. It says, the days, the days, the days. Becky couldn't get over how utterly unprepared she was for grief. Given how many people she'd helped over the years with |
| Careless People | Sarah Wynn-Williams | Nov 1, 2025 | Meta/ Facebook | |
| Circling the Sun | Paula McClain | May 1, 2025 | Historical fiction based on life of Beryl Markham ((aviator & horse trainer) in 1920's colonial Kenya | |
| Closed Casket - Agatha Christie | Sophie Hannah | Oct 21, 2026 | A Hercule Poirot mystery written in the style of Agatha Christie. October 1929, Clonakilty, county Cork, Irish Free State - Widow Lady Athelinda Playford (writer of popular children mystery books featuring Shrimp Seddon) invites famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Edward Catchpool, a detective at London's Scotland Yard, to her estate Lillieoak. They can not imagine why, unless Lady Playford anticipates a murder. She is about to change her will to exclude son Viscount Harry Playford (his wife Dorro), daughter Claudia (engaged to Dr. Randall Kimpton) and leave everything to her charming secretary Joseph Scotcher (an invalid who has been dying for years of Bright's disease of the kidneys). Sure enough, just a few hours later, Scotcher is beaten to death almost beyound recognition. Other characters: Hatton (butler), Michael Gathercole (tall lawyer), Sophie Bourlet (Joseph's nurse), Brigid Cook), Orville Rolfe (fat lawyer partners with Gathercole), Phyllis (maid), Inspector Arhtur Conree & Sargeant Daniel O'Dwyer. In every Shrimp book, she makes the "milk bottle top" joke. This refers to a shiny, silver milk bottle cap that looks bright and valuable, authenic exterior, but is ultimatelyis fragile, common and worth very little, or that undernath lies a more complex, deceptive reality. Appearance versus reality. Challenges how characters view honesty. | Edward Catchpool observes - A phenomenon I have had cause to notice time and again in both my Professional and my social life is that when one meets a large group of people all at once, one somehow knows - as if by otherworldly instinct - which of them one will enjoy speaking to and which are worth avoiding. Joseph Scotcher to maid Phyllis about Brigid - "It's the weakest as have to shout the loudest, make everyone suffer." Lady Playford referring to Dorro's hurtful words - "One ought not to use words carelessly, or even spontaneously. Once they are launched, they cannot be called back." Lady layford to Catchpool about Sophie - ....the vast majority of people are disinclined to confront anything that is messy or peculier. Most people are scared of most things - never forget thet! It is really only writers and artists who can cope with the with the puzzling ambiguities - and those with a investigative inclination." Kimpton - "Why do we allow words to have such power over us? They are lost in air the moment they leave our mouths, Yet they stay with us forever if they are arranged in a memorable order. How can three words - "stone cold dead"- be so more more upsetting tahn the wordless memory of a dead child?" Lady Playford to Catchpool - "... the honest and the dishonest are equally keen on large amounts of money and land, I have found." "You see, in the normal run of things, people who lie as easily as they breathe never admit to it. They have an endless capacity to invent new lies to explain the old ones.It is not a moral problem, in my opinion, so much as a mental illness." Catchpool to Poirot - "when you know two things are true, and those two things seem to go against each other, instead of telling yourself one must not be true, shouldn't you ask yourself what third thing that you have not yet thought of would allow both true things to be true at the same time?" |
| Darkfall | Dean R. Koontz | Jun 6, 2026 | Members of crime families are being killed. Mutilated and bitten by unknown creatures with hollow silver eyes. Dectives Jack Dawson and Rebecca Chandler are investigating. Jack's children, Penny and Davey, are targeted. Voodoo is involved. | |
| Day After Night | Anita Diamant | Nov 8, 2025 | True Story Holocaust | |
| Echo Burning | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher in Texas. Wopman, Carmen Greer, picks up Reacher while he is hitchhiking. She wants him to kill her abusive husband, Sloop, as he is being released from prison. Web of lies, local police corruption and a separate professional hitman team targeting the community. | |
| Follow the River | James Alexander Thom | Jan 5, 2026 | Based on true story of Mary Draper Ingles escape fron Seneca Indian captivity in 1755. | |
| For One More Day | Mitch Albom | Sep 15, 2025 | Cherley "Chick" Benetto wants one more day to get to know his deceased mother and her sacrifices | |
| Have a Little Faith | Mitch Albom | Jan 4, 2026 | True Story - Rabbi Albert L. Lewis (prominant South Jersey) & Pastor Henry Covington (poor area of Detroit. Rabbi asks Albom to write his eulogy. | |
| Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | Mar 1, 2024 | June 1972, a skeleton is discovered in an old well in the predominately black neighborhood of Chicken Hill, Pottstown, PA. Main story takes ple 47 years earlier. Rabbi Flohr owns the "Heaven & Earth Grocery Store". Hoshe Ludlow marries Rabbi's daughter Chona, and eventually take over the gorcery store. Jews & African Americans living in Chicken Hill with racism, antisemitism, sexual assult and Ku Klux Klan Pennhurst State Hospital. | |
| How to Age Disgracefully | Clare Pooley | Apr 1, 2025 | Group of eccentric seniors band together to save their community center | |
| It Ends with Us | Colleen Hoover | May 15, 2025 | Romance novel - Lily Bloom flower shop - cycle of abuse in life & marriage | |
| It Ends with US | Colleen Hoover | Feb 1, 2026 | ||
| It Starts With US | Colleen Hoover | May 15, 2025 | Read first - Lily Bloom & Atlas Corrigan | |
| James | Percival Everett | Feb 16, 2025 | Told by Jim of Huckleberry Finn | |
| Kantika | Elizabeth Graver | Mar 1, 2024 | Historical novel multigenerational Jewish family | |
| Killing Floor | Lee Chaild | Jack Reacher | ||
| Mad Mabel | Sally Hepworth | Sep 30, 2026 | Elsie Mabel Waller (later Fitzpatrick) born in 1944,in Australia, grows up ss a lonely child, feeling unloved by her Mother Mary) (with occasional signs of love) and an overbearing father (Elliott) who accuses her of killing her younger sister, Kitty, by giving her polio. Mabel survived, her sister did nott. Elliot & Mary travel a lot without Mabel. She is known as "Mad Mabel", a nickname pushed by her father. She is bullied by other kids. Her father speaks such much of Rosehill (mansion type home originally owned by mothers parents) he seems to love it more than anything else. DId Elliott only marry Marry for Rosehill? Mabel creates an imaginary friend, Daphne. Although we do not know she is only imaginary. They do everything together and are the closest of friends, bosom buddies. After her mother's death, Mary's sister Cecile (and her girlfriend Ness ( becomes her guardian as Elliott is away most of the time and with a new girlfriend, Susan McGinty. Mabel is now 81, 6 feet tall, and lived on Kenny Lane, outside of Melbourne. A small street with interesting neighbors. She is snarky and does not seem friendly. one neighbor, Roxanne has a daughter Persephone, aged 7. Many events take place on Kenny Lane. Eventually, Mabel gets to tell her story to 2 reporters who now cast her in a different light as "Magnificent Mabel." | ....but because people have so little regard for female friendsship that they can't fathom a closeness such as we havewithout the romantic element. More fool them. There is no greater love story than that of platonic female love. Friends are like oxygen. If you've been blessed enough to always be surrounded by friends,, you might think I am overplaying this. I don't blame you. if you'd always been surrounded by air, you wouldn't think to credit it for your very existence either. But I have spent much of my life gasping for breath, so I promise you, it's true. Friends are like oxygen. And the only reason I am still alive is Daphne. An only child of unintereested parents, I was left to my own devices for most of my formative years - encouraged to run off and play or simply make myself scarce. Once children were old enough to walk, they were expected to walk out the door and start creating mischieff somewhere else...... But for me, with no friends, it meant childhood was desparately, bone-achingly lonely. My motheralways said that my father could silence a room just by entering it. There was no question it was true. But my mother said it as though it were a magical power, which wasn't true. Anyone could silence a room by using fear and intimidation. It was a weak trick of the unskilled, or for those who lacked charm. But I didn't figure that out until years later. Punctuality, it seems, has joined common sense and properly made furniture on the growing list of things that no longer exist. |
| Make Me | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - town "Mother's Rest" in OK.He teams up with ex FBI agent Michelle Chang, who is looking for her missing partner. Search leads them across country. Town is front for a horrific unground trade with many victims. | |
| Making Bombs for Hitler | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch | Oct 16, 2026 | WWII - 1943 Ukraine-9 year old Lida Frerezuk and her younger sister Larissa are kidnapped by the Nazis and separated. When Larissa screams to Lida not to leave her, as they are being separated, Lida tells her to stay strong, That she will find her. Lida's father and mother have already been killed by the Soviets. In the dark, hot, stinky, crowded cattle car, she is surrounded by other children. She meets Luka, Zenia and Marika. At a stop along the way, a Woman whispers in Ukrainian "Be useful or they will kill you". Luka explains that they are too young to be much use to the Nazis, and useless people are killed. Luka has been previously caught by thr Nazis. He tells her to figure out a skill and say you are older. In the German labor camp, Lida gives her age as 13 to make herself appear useful. She is classified as a Russian (Eastern European) Ostarbeiter (forced laborer) at at first is assigned to work in the laundry, with Inge, to wash and use her sewing skills. She learnsfrom older prisoners that the ones younger than 12 are sent to the hospital. Here, they are drained of their blood to be used for injured Nazi soldiers. Lida finds that Zenia is secretly Jewish and gives her Lida's crucifix to wear. Luka manages to escape. Polish and German prisoners get better food in the soup than if you considered Russian. Ukraine was part of Russia at the time. In fact, there is a separate ladle in the Russian soup. So the soup could be poisoned without contaminating the other soups. Lida and some other girls are assigned to make bombs at the bomb factory. They work under close scruntiny. THe come up with the idea to substitute the gunpowder with dirt from the camp that they sneak in their pockets. As the allies are constantly bombing, the guard watching over them go away for longer and longer periods of time. The girls come up with other ways to sabotagethe bombs. The factory is hit, and they are transported back to the camp. The train tracks are bombed and the train stops. Some escape into the woods, but Lida and others walk back to the camp. After being transported with other prisoners to a hidden cave like structure under a hill to make bullets, she is eventullay rescued by American soldiers and sent to a displaced persons convent camp under the care of nurse Astrid. In 1951, Lida reunites with Luka. He has the opportunity to return home and asks Lida to go with him. The Red Army soldiers told Luka that his father (a pharmacist who had been sent to Siberia) was alive with his own pharmacy in Kyiv. But Pani Zemluk told her to change her identtiy and where she is from. As a laboror for the Nazis, she is considered a Nazi by the Soviet Union and would punished if she went back there. She wants to go with Luka, but realizes she has a better chance of finding her sister if she stays at the Unkranian DP camp. Luka goes with thee soldiers, then learns the terrible truth. He manages to escape and returns bloodied and injured. They travel together from camp to camp reliazing that the Red Army may come back for Luka and looking for news of family. After expaining to a Red Cross nurse at a camp in the British zone in Germanyin 1947 about thinking she saw her sister with a German family during the war, she is hopeful that they may find her eventually. Some children were stolen from their families and adopted by German families. They were given a small tattoo on the inside of their wrist so they would not entirely blend in. After the war, the families didn't want the children 1951 - Luka and Lida are still together in a DP amp. She receives an envelope from Canada. It is from Larissa!! Follow up book "The Stolen Child" continuesLarissa's story | Mama says - Remember Lida, you can make beauty anywhere. Zenia to Lida in the labor camp - Who else will help us if we don't help each other? Did the Nazis see us as nothing more than spare parts for their war machine? Lida wondering what regular Germans thought about the forced laborers - Did they think we had done something wrong and were being punished? Or did they even know that theie government captured people from other countries and made them work for Germany? |
| Master Slave, Husband Wife | Iyon Woo | Mar 1, 2024 | Ellen & William Craft | |
| My Brother Sam id Dead | JamesLincolnCollier & Christopher Clollier | Aug 15, 2024 | Revolutionary War. Timm Meeker's big brother Sam has enlisted in the new American Revolutionary Army. Tim and Sam's father are loyal to the English King. | |
| Never Go Back | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - Travels to VA to meet his successor Major Susan Turner. 110 th MP headquarters. Turner has been arrested & replaced by shady Colonel. Reacher accused of murder & having a daughter, Reacher must rejoin the Army. Military conspiracy. | |
| Night School | Lee Child | Nov 3, 2025 | In 1996,during Army days, Jack Reacher joins FBI and CIA operatives to investigate a mysterious $100 million demand from a Hamburg jihadist cell, leading to a high-stakes mission across multiple countries | He especially didn't care for angry organized crowds. He had been in Somalia and Bosnia and the Middle East, and he had seen what angry crowds could do. He had seen the herd instinct at work, the anonymity, the removal of inhibition, the implied permissions of collective action. He had seen that an angry crowd was the most dangerous animal on the face of the earth. A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, honor and service. You understand these words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward. The people here deserve your best, and I'm damn sure their relatives deserve it. |
| No Middle Name | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher. Collection of Short Stories. Too Much Time,; Second Son; High Heat; Deep Down; Small Wars; James Penneys New Identity; Everyone Talks; Not a Drill; Maybe They Have a Tradition; Guy Walks into a Bar; No Room at the Motel; The Picture of the Lonely Diner | |
| Nobody's Girl | Virginia Roberts Giuffre | May 9, 2026 | Memoir of Virginia (Jenna) a survivor of sexual abuse by her father and also his friend. Then later, abused by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jefrery Epstein starting at age 14 . Her story as told by herself and her long fight for justice. | |
| None of this is True | Lisa Jewell | Jun 28, 2026 | Podcaster Alix Summer meets Josie Fair while celebrating her 45th birthday at a restaurant. Josie is with her much older husband, Walter. Josie strikes up a conversation with Alix as it is her 45th birthaday too. They are "Bithday Twins". Joisie shares bizarre secrets about her family life. Alix interviews Josie for a podcast. Josie weedles her way into Alix"s and handsome husband Nathan lives and house. She takes things from Alix's house when she visits. Nathan has a binge drinking problem, and apologizes each time he blacks out and swears it will be the last time. Josie believes that both husbands are disappointing and wants to help Alix make a "clean break". | |
| Nothing to Lose | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher stumbles upon sinister secrets in two small towns (Hope & Despair), pitting his curiosity against powerful forces determined to conceal the truth | |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Oct 30, 2025 | WW II Jews in Denmark | |
| NYPD RED 2 | James Patterson & Marshall Karp | Jan 8, 2026 | Det. Zach Jordan & Det. Kylie MacDonald - Hazmat killers | |
| One Shot | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - Sniper shhoting. 6 shots, 5 dead in Indiana. James Barr, former Army sniper arrested. Reacher called in to prove innocence. | |
| Persuader | Lee Child | Jan 23, 2026 | An ex-military cop, Jack Reacher, encounters his worst enemy, Quinn, who he thought was dead. After witnessing a brutal kidnapping attempt, he pursues justice for an unsolved murder from ten years ago | |
| Reacher: Klilling Floor | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | 1st Jack Reacher Novel. Arresred for murder in Margrave, GA. Victim was his brother, Joe. Capt. Finley detective & Officer Roscoe. | |
| Run Rose Run | Dolly Parton & James Patterson | May 14, 2026 | Country singer want-to-be AnnieLee Keyes arrives in Nashville looking for a break. She eventually is taken under the wing of retired country superstar Ruthanna Ryder. But AnnieLee has a past that haunts her and eventually tracks her down. Her "body guard" Ethan Blake tracks her down. | |
| Safe Enough and Other Stories | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Not Jack Reacher - 20 crime stories. | |
| Sarah's Key | Tatiana De Rosnay | Apr 10, 2026 | On July 16, 1942,in occupied France, the French Police Round up Jews and take them to the Velodrome d'Hiver, an indoor bicycle racing track. Soon to be taken to Auschwitz. Before leaving their apartment, Sarah locks her little brother in their secret cupboard in the wall. Telling him that she will be back from for soon, she pockets the key. In 2002, on the 60th anniversay of the roundup, American journalist Julia Jarmond (living in France), is assinged to writing about the roundup. Her research leads her onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah. | |
| Stolen Girl | Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch | Oct 24, 2026 | Canada 1950 - Nadia is with Marusia and Ivan who say they are her parents now as they were married in a DP camp after WWII, and took her with them. She is having a hard time adjusting, and begins to have nightmares and flash backs. She finally remembers living with a German family and wearing a pink dress. Her name was Grethen and had a little sister Eva. She doe not know what to believe. This is the story of Larissa. (see Making Bombs for Hitler). Larissa (5) and older sister Lida (8) see a lineup of chidren outside what used to be a synagogue in their town in Ukraine. The women are wearing brown suits with white collars & cuffs. They ask the children questions about themselves, where they live, and are rewarded with 2 pieces of candy each. Larissa has beautiful blond hair and blue eyes. That night, she and Lida are stolen from their Baba. This is the story of the "Lebensborn" (Fount of Life) program designed by the Nazi's. German women were not having babies quickly enough, so between 1940 and 1942, the SS created this program to increase the number of Aryan children.. Blond, blue eyed Polish and Ukrainian young children who looked Aryan were stolen from their parents, examined and measured, marked with a small dot tattoo on the back of thei neck and inside risk. They were then adopted by German families and indoctrinated to hate Jews and Slavs and idiolize Hitler as their Savior. After the war, most of the stolen children refused to leave their German parents, even if their birth parents were still alive and located. It is estimated (Nazis destroyed the records) that about 250,000 Polish and Ukrainian children were stolen. | |
| Te Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Apr 1, 2025 | 1964 South Carolina. 14 yeaar old Lily Owens and her Black caregiver escape Lily's abusive home. They find refuge with 3 Black sisters who own Black Madonna Honey. | |
| The Affair | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - March 1997 - Before Killing Floor. Carter Crossing, MS. Reacher goes undercover to investigate muder of young woman. Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux work together to get justice. | |
| The Black Book | James Patterson & David Ellis | Nov 8, 2025 | Cop Billy Harney - Everone looking for a Madam's Black book with names of prominant citizens inside | |
| The Book of Longings | Sue Monk Kidd | Sep 21, 2025 | Jesus's wife | |
| The Bookseller of Dauchau | Shari J. Ryan | Sep 14, 2026 | America 2018 - Grace receives a manila envelope from Germany that tells her that she has inhreited a book store in the city of Dachau. Her curiosity takes her to the German lawyer's office where she learns and visits the bookshop. She meets Archie who has worked for Matilda for years, and gives Grace handwritten notes from her grandmother Matilda about her life. Grace proceeds to learn about the biological grandparent she never knew. Her mother was adopted as an infant and always wanted to know about her parents and ancestry, but could never find out before she passed. | May 1940 - Matilda describing the day - The hazy rays of the morning sun have had less than a few minutes to spill over the horizon, and there is already a commotion outside the building. There seems to be more disruptions than silence these last few months, but it's hard to say what's causing the tension in each situation. Hate is like a viral disease, sparing almost no one a chance to live as they were raised - with love for one another. Erich to Matilda - I never meant to be a bad person. I don't know how I ended up here, like this. It's no excuse, but it's the truth. I was stupid. We are all stupid puppets without meaning in are life, bred to hate. But my mother, she has only taught me how to love and I don't know where I went wrong. Rich to his mother Galina and Matilda - I was trying to help; I've been trying to give the Jews scraps of food because I don't want to be a bad person anymore, and I don't want to live like this or see what I'm seeing. I can't do it - I just can't. The sights, they are worse every day. They are suffering more than any human should have top suffer and I can't do a thing to stop any of it from happening. I am a living sin, Mother. Matilda thinking after she is shot by a former Nazi soldier - As ice-cold numbness spikes through my body as I fall to the dirt-covered ground, forced to stare at the man who is still holding the pistol. He puts a bullet through his head next, ending his life because it's one life for another, not one life over another. |
| The Boys in ther Light | Nina Willner | Jun 3, 2026 | Well researched narrative nonfiction story about author's father Eddie Willner (from a middle class German-Jewish family in Monchengladbach) first sent to Brussels, Belgium by his parents at age 8 - 16, then later sent to various concentration camps with his father Siegfried, A WWI vet with honors including the Iron Cross. Mother Auguste is gassed immediately. Eddie befriends Mike. Siegfieid teaches the boys to be strong aand hjow to survive. After 5+ years, he becomes sick and weak and is taken away to be murdered. As teenagers, Maurits "Mike" Swaab and Eddie eventually escape (Aushwitz, Blechammer (Oil manufacturing plant), Langenstein, Project Malachit tunnels) and meet up with the young men of the 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored "Spearhead" Division, Company D.earlier known for their victory at "Dragon's Teeth" (Lt. Elmer Hovland, Fred "Redhead" Headrick, James "Baby Face" Vance, Lt. Charles Myers, Bernie, Sammy "Pepsi" DeCola, Fats, George, Sal, Rocco and Mahoney). Best Book I've read yet. | Eddie & Mike (2 concentration camp survivors) realization after taking with WWII tankmen Pepsi & Fred - It didn't take long for Eddie and Mike to realize that America seemed to be everything Germany was not. Where Aryan purity had become the cornerstone of German Society, America was a marvel of endless possibilities - filled with many cultures that had amalgamated into something wonderous, an enchanted mix of people of varied backgrounds who united to work together. The United States seemed like a magical place, and their fascination lit a flame in the two boys that would never go out. |
| The Brass Verdict | Michael Connelly | Aug 15, 2025 | Lincoln Lawyer | |
| The Calamity Club | Kathryn Stockett | Jul 16, 2026 | Oxford, MS (near Jackson) 1933. Historical Fiction. Birdie Calhoun comes to Oxford from Footlely in the MS delta, to ask her selfish sister for money for her Mom & Meemaw. Frances, husband, Rory & his mother Viktoria Tartt live in a big, beautiful house and are quite well off. Or so it seems.. Meg LeFleur is an 11 year old girl whose mother, Charlie abandoned her on Christmas Eve. Dr. Welty Pittman takes Meg to a home for orphan girls run by his wife Garnett. Garnett treats Meg horribly &separates her from school & the other girls. Frances works at the orphanage. Charlie returns to reclaim Meg, but she has been "adopted" by Tom & Lucille Heidelberg. While Frances & Mrs. Tartt are looking for Rory who has taken off with valuables, Charlie concocts an idea to raise money for herself, Birdie & Mrs. Tartt, who will probably lose her house. A boarding house & Dance Club in the back yard. Charlie Knows some "women" who could help. Flossy, Ruby,and others run a brothel & speakeasy during the depression. | |
| The Cemetery Keepers Wife | Maryann McFadden | Sep 7, 2026 | 2014 - After marrying Adam, Rachel Miller moves to Union Cemetery, Hackettstown NJ. Her husband is the 7th generation cemetery keeper. On a stroll through the cemetery, she discovers a stunning monument to Tillie Smith, who died in 1886. Her inscription read, "She Died in Defence of Her Honor." Rachel, an estate autioneer who cleans out houses, wants to find out the truth about Tillie, and why Adam's relatives and the people in town do not want her to do so. Both Rachel and Tillie share a secret. | Adam to his wife Rachel - It was a book someone gave me a while back, actually, about how random coincidences are sometimes really God, the universe, whatever you want to call fate, giving you a nudge about something. |
| The Correspondent | Virginia Evans | Jun 21, 2026 | Sybil Van Antwerp is a divorced retired lawyer turned law clerk. She and the judge she worked for would collaboate on case decisions. She writes letters to anyone, everyone 3 mornings a week. She believes a letter to be a piece of her life that she shares, that may mean something to someone someday. She had 3 children, but a son died at a young age. A ruling that she and the judge made many years ago, now comes back to haunrt her. As she herself had been adoopted, her son and daughter in lawe gift her a genetics kit to try to discover her past. She discovers something wonderful when she decides to "share": her info. | Sybil to judge's son - It is beyond my comprehension the lengths to which children will go to in the name of cruelty, and I know you know this, but I want to repeat that when someone(s) treats you poorly, it is a reflection of him or herself and the misery in the heart of them. It doesn't help a bit to hear that when you're young, but later it will. |
| The Family Upstairs | Lisa Jewell | Nov 30, 2025 | Wacky mother invites wacky family to live with them & they take over the house. | |
| The First Ladies | Marie Benedict | Oct 1, 2024 | Eleanor Roosevelt & Mary McLeod Bethune (civil rights activist) | |
| The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah | Aug 17, 2025 | The Dust bowl | |
| The Frozen River | Ariel Lawton | Jul 28, 2024 | midwife Martha Ballard | |
| The Giver of Stars | Jojo Moyes | Jul 1, 2024 | Pack Horse Librarians in Appalachian Mts. | |
| The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Mar 16, 2026 | Memoir. Dysfunctional, poor, nomadic life. Alcoholic father works on ideas and inventions to get rich. Artist mother a fre spirit who no longer wants responsibility of raising a family. Kids learn to taske care of themselves and each other. | |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | Jul 1, 2025 | AWFUL - fraternal twins Rahel & Estha in India | |
| The God of the Woods | Liz Moore | Feb 28, 2026 | Camp Emerson - Bear Van Laar goes missing in 1961. His yonger sister Barbara goes missing 14 years later in 1975. | |
| The Guest List | Lucy Foley | Aug 19, 2026 | A big wedding on a remote Island (Inisd an Amplora) off the coast of Ireland. Only the wedding planner (Aoife) and her husband Freddy actually live on the island. Bride Jules (creator of "The Download" blog turned online magazine) is marrying Will star Of "Survive the Night" show. Will invites his rowdy buddies from his old school. Jules invites married Charlie as her best man and sulky half sister Olivia as her bridesmaid. Will and his boys create mayhem and act like they are back at their private school. A gale storm hits the day of the wedding, and "someone" is dead. Who dun it?? | |
| The Hard Way | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - NYC. Edward Lane, with Mercedes & 1 million in ransom money to get his wife & child back. Lane runs illegal solders for hire operation. | |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Jul 8, 2026 | 1962 Jackson, Mississippi. Black maids Aibleen, Minny and others are approched by Skeeter, a recent colleger grad who wants to be a writer. She wants to write a book about life as a black maid in a white household. Taking orders quietly, raising white children, but not allowed to use the same bathroom. That and other Jim Crow Laws are starting to make the women start to think. After the murder of Medger Evans, who lives in their community, The maids finally decide to let Skeeter interview them, hoping for change and a better day. Their names and the name of the town are changed in the book. Still, some of the townspeople think they recognize themselves in the stories. Especially Miss Hilly. She is the boss of just about everyone and everything. Noone wants to crosss her, or you will be shunned. When Minny reveals her "big, terrible seccret" in the book that she pulled on Miss Hilly after being told she was being fired, Miss Hilly is mortified and insists the book is not about Jackson. | |
| THe Housemaid | Frieda McFadden | Jun 24, 2026 | Wilhelmina "Millie" has spent 10 years in prison for murder and can't seem to keep a job. She is thrilled to begin a new life working as a housekeeper and cook for Nina & Andrew Winchester. They are a very rich couple with a beautiful house and a brat of a 9 year old daughter, Cecelia.. Millie's small room is located in the attic. How strange that it locks from the outside. Andrew is strikingly handsome and kind. Millie soon falls for him. Nina is a viciuos nut job who does everything she can to make Millie's life and job miserable. Enzo, the landscaper, is a hunk and works for many other families in the neighborhood, but seems to spend most of his time working in the Winchester's large yard. | |
| The Invention of Wings | Sue Monk Kidd | Jan 12, 2025 | Slavery, Freedom, Women's rights | |
| The Language of Flowers | Vanesa Diffenbaugh | Aug 21, 2026 | Victoria (raised in the foster system) has learned not to trust others or get close to them. She was a wild child. Acting out and yet doubting herself. One of her best fosters was Elizabeth, who loved her no matter what, and had evey intention of adopting her. But, a complication arose. Elizabeth homeshooled her and taught her about the victorian meaning of different flowers. Victoria developed a great interest in flowers and their meanings. When she ages out of the system, she is on her own. She happens upon a flower shop "Bloom" owned by Renata. She starts helping Renata with small tasks, then flower arranging, When entrusted with running the shop, people explain an issue in their life, and Victoria selects the flowers based on the meaning the customer wasnts to convey. Soon they ask exclusively forher, as the situation in their life improved. As she follows Renata through the flower market, she stumbles upon Grant, Elizabeth's nephew ,who owns a flower farm. Catherine is Eliza's estranged sister. | |
| The Lion Women of Tehran | Marjan Kamali | Nov 20, 2024 | 2 women from opposite classses bond | |
| The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto | Mitch Albom | Dec 15, 2025 | Blue Strings with magic powers | Do you think me coy? I am at times. I am also sweet and calming and dissonant and angry and difficult and simple, as soothing as poured sand, as piercing as a pinprick. I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You give me back upon departure. I will gather up Frankie's talent to spread on newborn souls. And I will do the same with yours one day. There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart? |
| The Measure | Nikki Erlick | Apr 20, 2025 | Each person receivesa box wirh string inside of certain length = length of their life | |
| The Proving Ground | Michael Connelly | Jan 2, 2026 | The Lincoln Lawyer | |
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | Dec 1, 2023 | Biblical story told from Dinah's perspective | |
| The Secret | Lee Child & Andrew Child | Feb 16, 2026 | Jack Reacher - Secret operations in 1969 in India - counter bioligical warfare & pro biological warfare. Set in 1992 during his Army Days. | |
| The Sentinel | Lee Child & Andrew Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - Intervenes in the kidnapping of Rusty Rutherford, an IT manager wrongly blamed for a ransomware attack on a town in Tennessee. Massive cyber espionage conspiracy | |
| The Women | Kristin Hannah | Jul 21, 2024 | Women nurses in Vietnam | |
| Then She Was Gone | Lisa Jewell | Nov 30, 2025 | 14 yr old girl diappears & held captive | |
| This Tender Land | William Kent Krueger | May 1, 2024 | 4 orphans escape a harsh Minnesota Indian boarding school | |
| Three Sisters | Heather Morris | Oct 30, 2025 | True Story - Auschwitz to Israel | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Oct 20, 2024 | ||
| Verity | Colleen Hoover | Oct 5, 2026 | Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer in NYC. She witnesses a bloody accident where a pedestrian is hit by a truck. A man, Jeremy Crawford, helps her clean up and gives her his shirt. In the meeting that Lowen was headed to when the accident happened, there is Jeremy Crawford. He wants to hire her to ghostwrite the remaining books left unfinished by his best selling author wife Verity Crawford. Verity is incapacitated after a sever car accident. Jeremy convinces Lowen to come stay at his house to go through Verity's notes to prep for her assignment. Lowen becomes attracted to Jeremy. She discovers a "diary" written by Verity. As Lowen reads it, she is horrified by what she reads - about their children's deaths and Verity's feelings of resentment towards the children. By Verity's admissisions in the manuscript, is reveals herself as dangerously manipulative narcissist obsessed with Jeremy. Lowen often feels uncomfortable in the house, feels like Verity is watching her and becomes suspicious if Verity is really as catatonic as she seemss to be. | I learned very early on that a human is not merely comprised of only one thing. We are two parts that make up the whole. We have our conscience, which includes our mind, our soul, and all the intangible parts. And we have our physical being, which is the machine that our conscience relies on for survival. If you fuck with the machine, you will die. If you neglect the machine, you will die. If you assume your conscience can outlive the machine, You will die shortly after learning you were wrong. It's very simple, really. Take care of your physical being. Feed it what it needs, not what the conscience tells you it wants. Giving in to cravings of the mind that untimately hurt the body is like a weak parent giving in to her child. Caring for your body is no different from caring for a child. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it sucks, sometimes you just want to give in, but if you do, you'll pay for the consequences eighteen years down the road. |
| War Horse | Michael Morpurgo | Aug 15, 2024 | 1914 - WWI. Told from perspcective of Joey, a farm horse. Will he ever be reconnected with the farmer's son Albert? | |
| When She Was Good | Michael Robotham | Sep 1, 2026 | London - Evie Crmac was sex trafficed as a child. She was found hiding in a secret room by special constable Sasha Hopewell several days after the murder of Terry Boland. She doesn't remember her real name or where she was taken from. She was then raised in asecure childrens's home. Forensic phychologist Cyrus Haven begins digging into Evie's past although she doesn't want him to. She is afriad of the powerful people who tortured and killed her temporary protector Terry, when he helped her escape from "Uncle". | I seem to have spent most of my life waiting for other people to make decisions about me, the shrinks and do-gooders and men in wigs, who gave me a new name and made me a ward of the court. They're doing it again, casting votes to decide my fate like the United Nations of the clueless. Evie to Marty who has a boat and hides Evie for a while - The three biggest lies in the world are these: it gets better, everything will be okay and I'm here for you. |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | Feb 1, 2026 | Kyra Clark is abondopned by er family as a young child in 1952. She is known as "Marsh Girl" as she lives alone and learns to survive in the coastal marshes near Barkley Cove, North Carolina. Chase Andrews, a local celebrity and former football star is found dead in the marsh. Kyra is suspected in the 1969 investigation. A coming of age story. | |
| Worth Dying For | Lee Child | Dec 23, 2025 | Jack Reacher - Rural Nebraska - The Ducans, local clan, runs a trucking company and keep town in fear. Domestic Dispute. Story connected to 61 Hours |