What Booksellers are Reading Now
Based on my recent travels, and chats with at least 5 dozen booksellers, here’s What Booksellers Are Reading Now, the complete list. If you’re interested in any of these books, I hope you’ll go first to Indiebound, so you can figure out where to buy locally.
Fiction:
A MARKER TO MEASURE DRIFT, Alexander Maksik
THE HUSBAND’S SECRET, Liane Moriarty
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, Vanessa Diffenbaugh
MISS MONTREAL, Howard Shrier
THE BURGESS BOYS, Elizabeth Strout
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, M.L. Stedman
BREWSTER, Mark Slouka
LETTERS FROM SKYE, Jessica Brockmole
GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN, Louise Penny
THE GIRL WHO SANG TO THE BUFFALO, Kent Nerburn
SOMEONE, Alice McDermott
THE ROUND HOUSE, Louise Erdrich
BEL CANTO, Ann Patchett
THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND, Jojo Moyes
DEFENDING JACOB, William Landay
THE LAST ORIGINAL WIFE, Dorothea Benton Frank
RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA, Kimberly McCreight
TRAVELING SPRINKLER, Nicholson Baker
JUDE THE OBSCURE, Thomas Hardy
ME BEFORE YOU, Jojo Moyes
THE DINNER, Herman Koch
THE BELL JAR, Sylvia Plath
MIDDLEMARCH, George Eliot
A ROOM WITH A VIEW, E.M. Forster
THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald
LEAVING HAVEN, Kathleen McCleary 🙂
Fantasy:
SERPENT OF VENICE, Christopher Moore
THE BONE SEASON, Samantha Shannon
EMPEROR OF THORNS, Mark Lawrence
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS, Cassandra Clare
NEVERWHERE, Neil Gaiman
WOOL, Hugh Howey
THE RETURN OF THE KING, J.R.R. Tolkien
Historical fiction:
THE GOOD LORD BIRD, James McBride
BURIAL RITES, Hannah Kent
THE ABSOLUTIST, John Boyne
SON, Philipp Meyer
Non-fiction:
LIVING THE QUAKER WAY, Philip Gulley
THE MUSHROOM HUNTERS, Langdon Cook
A RIP IN HEAVEN, by Jeanine Cummins
THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES, Edmund de Waal
THE GUNS OF AUGUST, Barbara Tuchman
SAVAGE CONTINENT, Keith Lowe
UNDAUNTED COURAGE, Stephen Ambrose
WILSON, A. Scott Berg
LOVE, LIFE AND ELEPHANTS, Dame Daphne Sheldrick
A FORT OF NINE TOWERS, Qais Akbar Omar
Young Adult:
ELEANOR AND PARK, Rainbow Rowell
FANGIRL, Rainbow Rowell
COUNTING BY 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan
THE TESTING, Joelle Charbonneau
FALLING KINGDOMS, Morgan Rhodes
WEDNESDAY WARS, Gary D. Schmidt
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, John Green
THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, Sherman Alexie
Childrens’:
THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT
THE MAN WITH THE VIOLIN
RUFUS GOES TO SCHOOL
