Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan Do you love epics? In a recent discussion, my son mentioned he had begun to read a series by Robert ...

The Library Book  by Susan Orlean On April 19, 1986, fire broke out at the Los Angeles Central Library. It took 60 fire companies over seven...

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep Murder. Voodoo. Revenge. Furious Hours  tells the story of a k...

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson In a rural village in Iceland, a few hours from the capital of Reykjavík, ...

This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens Minnie Cooper (yes, really) is convinced she is jinxed. Born on New Year's Day, 1990, she just mis...

The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith Nordic Noir is a subgenre of the thriller, Scandinavian crime fiction marked b...

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins Murder, love, ambition - all can be found in The Wife Upstairs , a modern reimagining of Charlotte Bront...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie At the time of this writing, I have just finished listening to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd b...

The Dry  by Jane Harper Small towns hold big secrets. Agent Aaron Falk is called back to his drought-stricken Australian hometown to attend ...

So many books fit the criteria for FCPL’s July Reading Challenge -Read a Book by or About Someone With a Different Background From Your Own-...

The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers August 10, 1865 "... what I cannot excise from my mind is the conviction that I am guided by D...

I See You by Clare Mackintosh You do the same thing every day. You know exactly where you're going. You're not alone. Zoe Walke...

The Dutch House  by Ann Patchett Maeve's and Danny's lives are a fairy tale. They are raised together in the Dutch House, a grand ma...

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams In 1982 a BBC adaptation of the Douglas Adams novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Based on a true story from a crime in 1981, this novel-like narrative focuses on th...

Alka Joshi, author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Henna Artist , will speak with local readers in an online event hosted by Fo...

The Turn of the Key  by Ruth Ware I never thought that a book set in a modern-day "smart house" would send chills up my spine, but...

E verything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng A well-crafted debut novel featuring a moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, ...

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See "One mistake can change the course of your life. You can never return to your original p...

Snowblind  by Ragnar Jonasson The first novel in the Dark Iceland series takes place in Siglufjörður, "an idyllically quiet fishing vi...