LibraryReads is the monthly nationwide library staff picks list for adult fiction and non-fiction.

My Friends

A Novel

by Fredrik Backman

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later.

The Dream Hotel

A Novel

by Laila Lalami

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman's ...

Atmosphere

A Love Story

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love ...

So Far Gone

A Novel

by Jess Walter

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis' True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a ...

Meet Me at the Crossroads

A Novel

by Megan Giddings

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons.

The Names

A Novel

by Florence Knapp

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?

James

A Novel

by Percival Everett

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2026

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the ...

Three Days in June

A Novel

by Anne Tyler

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

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.

When the Moon Hits Your Eye

by John Scalzi

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

New York Times bestseller John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye.

Death of the Author

A Novel

by Nnedi Okorafor

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a ...

The Night Guest

by Hildur Knútsdóttir

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2025

Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that's sure to keep you awake at night.

Isola

A Novel

by Allegra Goodman

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Dec 2025

A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this breathtaking saga, an epic story of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam.