Reader's Choice: Fiction: Napolitano - Russo

This remarkable story is about a boy who miraculously survives a plane crash that takes the lives of all other passengers, including his family. After this heartbreaking ordeal, he has to find the resilience to create a new life for himself.

In a homage to Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a young man’s dark past resurfaces as he gets to the know the family of his college sweetheart.

Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner goes on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese American poet whose work he was taught to disavow.

A powerful story of love and friendship, and a gripping espionage novel, The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

Ada, who apprentices midwifery under her mother, must decide whether to aid a band of outlaws who want to create a safe haven for outcast women.

Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.

Shakespeare was in London and his wife and three children in Stratford, when his 11-year-old son, Hamnet, died.

In 1550s Florence, the future of the third daughter of the grand duke seems uncertain after she is thrust into a marriage.

There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.

Lionel Trilling said of Orwell's masterpiece, "1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present."

Kya Clark is a young woman growing up practically on her own in the wild marshes outside Barkley Cove, a small coastal community in North Carolina. In 1969, local lothario Chase Andrews is found dead, and Kya, now 23 and known as the "Marsh Girl," is suspected of his murder.

A tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man's rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family's lavish Philadelphia estate.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake.

When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent suddenly seem achievable. But the job turns out to be working as a typist for the fierce and renowned advice columnist, Henrietta Bird.

Three tells a moving story of love and loss, hope and grief, friendship and adversity, and of time as an ineluctable agent of change.

After surviving a plane crash, a death doula travels to Egypt to reconnect with an old flame who is an archaeologist.

Diana O’Toole re-evaluates her seemingly perfect life when a pandemic disrupts her vacation in the Galápagos Islands.

After returning to her hometown, Olivia McAfee’s son gets accused of killing his crush.

The science of botany and the art of storytelling merge to ingenious effect in Powers's magisterial new novel - a story in which people are merely the underbrush and the real protagonists are the trees that the human characters encounter.

Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event-a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives.

When Annie Brown suddenly dies, her family and closest friend piece their lives back together and carry her memory forward.

Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.

Tumult ensues when Alix Chamberlain’s babysitter is mistakenly accused of kidnapping her charge.

A tennis player comes out of retirement and trains with her father to defend her record.

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life.

Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project.

Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites threatening the foundations of their lives.

A novelist, a warehouse worker, an editorial assistant and a political adviser deal with changes.

This debut novel by an Arab-American voice,takes us inside the lives of conservative Arab women living in America. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice.

A gripping story about the complex power of friendship. Three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since college. They couldn't have been more different-- a real estate broker, a publisher, and a musician. But each holds his own secrets, in addition to the mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since 1971.