Discover Well-Read Black Girl Books and the projects reshaping publishing →

Books set primarily in the Maryland or Delaware

Md. Del.

Recommended books found: 31

Md. Del. is a members-only category, so your results have been limited to 12 books. If you are a member, please log in. If not, please consider joining today!.

Three Days in June

A Novel

by Anne Tyler

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.

The Correspondent

A Novel

by Virginia Evans

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as "a cause for celebration"—an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love.

The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street

by Mike Tidwell

Hardcover: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees – all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and, ...

The Most

by Jessica Anthony

Paperback: Jul 2024

Critics' Consensus:

From "one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page" (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family's apartment complex one morning and won't come ...

Big Time

A Novel

by Ben H. Winters

Hardcover: Mar 2024

Critics' Consensus:

In this "wild and wonderful" (Lou Berney) corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "time is money" and makes it frighteningly so, an everywoman FDA employee stumbles upon a dark, clandestine conspiracy to harvest and sell people's time.

The Favor

A Novel

by Nora Murphy

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's thrilling The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their own hands.

Booth

by Karen Joy Fowler

Hardcover: Mar 2022 | Paperback: Feb 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.

Clock Dance

A Novel

by Anne Tyler

Hardcover: Jul 2018 | Paperback: Apr 2019

Critics' Consensus:

A delightful novel of one woman's transformative journey, from the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

Tomorrow Will Be Different

Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

by Sarah McBride

Hardcover: Mar 2018 | Paperback: Mar 2019

Critics' Consensus:

A captivating memoir that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country.

White Houses

by Amy Bloom

Hardcover: Feb 2018 | Paperback: Oct 2018

Critics' Consensus:

The unexpected and forbidden affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok unfolds in a triumph of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us.

Sunburn

by Laura Lippman

Hardcover: Feb 2018 | Paperback: Jul 2018

Critics' Consensus:

Inspired by James M. Cain's masterpieces The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, Sunburn is a tantalizing modern noir from the incomparable Laura Lippman.

A Spool of Blue Thread

by Anne Tyler

Hardcover: Feb 2015 | Paperback: Apr 2016

Critics' Consensus:

Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler's work, a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity.

Md. Del. is a members-only category, so your results have been limited to 12 books. If you are a member, please log in. If not, please consider joining today!

The reviewer of each book decides which categories it belongs in - but we're only human, mistakes happen. If you see a book that you think is in the wrong place, tell us!

Recently Viewed

No books viewed yet

BookBrowse Book Club

Book Jacket
A Pair of Aces
by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.

Members Recommend

  • Book Jacket
    The Reimagining of Thornwood House
    by Jaleigh Johnson
    A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.
  • Book Jacket
    Somebody Worth Killing
    by Jessica Payne
    Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.
  • Book Jacket
    Summer's Never Over
    by Darby Bozeman
    A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
  • Book Jacket
    The Jellyfish Problem
    by Tessa Yang
    A marine biologist rescues a Maine island menaced by a giant glowing jellyfish in this inventive debut.
  • Book Jacket
    Feast
    by Catherine Kurtz
    In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
Who Said...

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets

Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!

Book
Trivia
  • Book Trivia

    Can you name the title?

    Test your book knowledge with our daily trivia challenge!

Wordplay

Solve this clue:

S the B

and be entered to win..

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.