CONVERSATION WITH FRIENDS, SALLY ROONEY
Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while
studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry
performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn
into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome
husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to
a strange—and then painful—intimacy.
Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is
wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.
GOOD OMENS, TERRY PRATCHETT- NEIL GAIMAN
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world’s only completely
accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday.
Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring.
Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-
living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth’s mortals since The Beginning and have grown
rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.
LITTLE WOMEN, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn’t be more
different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to
rely on one another. Whether they’re putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas,
there’s one thing they can’t help wondering: Will Father return home safely?
AGATHA CHRISTIE:
THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE
Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a
clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from
homicide.
Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where
under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and
death.
Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village.
Everyone—even in the vicar—wishes he were dead. And very soon he is—shot in the head in the vicar’s
own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled
web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer.
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
The world’s best-selling mystery!
«Ten…» Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious «U.N.
Owen».
«Nine…» At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the
end of the night one of the guests is dead.
«Eight…» Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one…one
by one they begin to die.
«Seven…» Who among them is the killer? And will any of them survive?
CROOKED HOUSE
The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head
of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.
Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, 50 years his junior. But the murderer has
reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.
THE MAIDENS, ALEX MICHAELIDES
Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and
charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike
— particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.
Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one
member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge.
Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty
of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. And she becomes
convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target
one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her
journey to the underworld?
When another body is found, Mariana’s obsession with proving Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control,
threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to
stop this killer, even if it costs her everything — including her own life.
JULIET, NAKED, NICK HORNBY
From the beloved New York Times best-selling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music,
superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love.
Annie loves Duncan – or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t.
Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music 10
years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. In doing so, she initiates an e-mail
correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for
more out of what they’ve got.
Tucker’s been languishing (and he’s unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he
sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin – his young son, Jackson.
But then there’s also the new material he’s about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down
version of his greatest album, Juliet – entitled, Juliet, Naked.
What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless,
childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous
novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one’s promise.
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, SHELBY VAN PELT
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium,
mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since
her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium.
Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his
human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now
Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s
too late.
Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help
uncover a future that once felt impossible.
THE NAMESAKE, JHUMPA LAHIRI
The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston
suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their
arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is
forward-thinking, ready to enter into American culture if not fully at least with an open mind. His young
bride is far less malleable. Isolated, desperately missing her large family back in India, she will never be
at peace with this new world.
Lahiri brings her enormous powers of description to her first novel, infusing scene after scene with
profound emotional depth. Condensed and controlled, The Namesake covers three decades and crosses
continents, all the while zooming in at very precise moments on telling detail, sensory richness, and fine
nuances of character.
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND, ANTHONY DOERR
Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of
women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns
to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs
to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing
sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople.
Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the
invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross.
Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of
war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through
centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager,
Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is
alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has
never set foot on our planet.