Welcome to 2022! We have a fun and fresh year of books ahead of us. Check out the following books at www.livingstonlibrary.org or via https://ebccls.overdrive.com.
The Maid by Nita Prose
Mystery
January 4
A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut.
Honor by Thrity Umrigar
Fiction
January 4
The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other.
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Thriller
January 4
Beautiful, wild, and strange – Meroe Island is a desolate spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism, and even rumors of murder. It’s the perfect destination for the most adventurous traveler to escape everything… except the truth.
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Literary
January 11
From the author of the classic A Little Life – a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
Fiction
January 11
A community’s past sins rise to the surface when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery.
Anthem by Noah Hawley
Thriller
January 18th
The first big novel of 2022: an epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets out on a quest to save one innocent life – and might end up saving us all.
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
Romance
January 18
A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover.
Violeta by Isabel Allende
Historical
January 25
This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
Happy Reading!
-Katie Neylan, Head of Adult Services & Acquisitions