Novel Ideas

Titles from NOVEL IDEAS discussions: Click on the book titles below, or go to our catalog to check for availability.

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2024

• January: Kitchens of the Great Midwest
• February: Lady Tan's Circle of Women
• March: West with Giraffes
• April: Better Living Through Birding (LI Reads 2024 selection)
• May: Hello Beautiful
• June: Tom Lake

2023

• January: Remarkably Bright Creatures
• February: Honor
• March: Lessons in Chemistry
• April: A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue (LI Reads 2023 selection)
• May: Florence Adler Swims Forever
• June: The Marriage Portrait
• September: Horse
• October: Mad Honey
• November: Signal Fires

2022

• January: Monogamy
• February: The Sweetness of Water
• March: The Living and the Lost (LI Reads 2022 selection)
• April: The Personal Librarian
• May: We Begin at the End          
• June: The Henna Artist
• September: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
• October: Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague
• November: The Maid

2021

• January: This Is How It Always Is
• February: Daisy Jones and the Six
• March: The Vanishing Half (LI Reads 2021 selection)
• April: All Adults Here
• May: A Woman is No Man           
• June: The Searcher
• September: The Nickel Boys
• October: The Four Winds
• November: The Immortalists
• December: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

2020

• January: Nora Webster
• February: Where the Crawdads Sing       
• June: Afterlife
• July: Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk
• September: Educated
• October: Dominicana     
• November: The Dutch House