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What Booksellers are Reading Now

Based on my recent travels, and chats with at least 5 dozen booksellers, here’s What Booksellers Are Reading Now, the complete list. If you’re interested in any of these books, I hope you’ll go first to Indiebound, so you can figure out where to buy locally.

Fiction:

A MARKER TO MEASURE DRIFT, Alexander Maksik

THE HUSBAND’S SECRET, Liane Moriarty

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, Vanessa Diffenbaugh

MISS MONTREAL, Howard Shrier

THE BURGESS BOYS, Elizabeth Strout

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, M.L. Stedman

BREWSTER, Mark Slouka

LETTERS FROM SKYE, Jessica Brockmole

GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN, Louise Penny

THE GIRL WHO SANG TO THE BUFFALO, Kent Nerburn

SOMEONE, Alice McDermott

THE ROUND HOUSE, Louise Erdrich

BEL CANTO, Ann Patchett

THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND, Jojo Moyes

DEFENDING JACOB, William Landay

THE LAST ORIGINAL WIFE, Dorothea Benton Frank

RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA, Kimberly McCreight

TRAVELING SPRINKLER, Nicholson Baker

JUDE THE OBSCURE, Thomas Hardy

ME BEFORE YOU, Jojo Moyes

THE DINNER, Herman Koch

THE BELL JAR, Sylvia Plath

MIDDLEMARCH, George Eliot

A ROOM WITH A VIEW, E.M. Forster

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald

LEAVING HAVEN, Kathleen McCleary 🙂

Fantasy:

SERPENT OF VENICE, Christopher Moore

THE BONE SEASON, Samantha Shannon

EMPEROR OF THORNS, Mark Lawrence
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS, Cassandra Clare

NEVERWHERE, Neil Gaiman

WOOL, Hugh Howey

THE RETURN OF THE KING, J.R.R. Tolkien

Historical fiction:

THE GOOD LORD BIRD, James McBride

BURIAL RITES, Hannah Kent

THE ABSOLUTIST, John Boyne

SON, Philipp Meyer

Non-fiction:

LIVING THE QUAKER WAY, Philip Gulley

THE MUSHROOM HUNTERS, Langdon Cook

A RIP IN HEAVEN, by Jeanine Cummins

THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES, Edmund de Waal

THE GUNS OF AUGUST, Barbara Tuchman

SAVAGE CONTINENT, Keith Lowe

UNDAUNTED COURAGE, Stephen Ambrose

WILSON, A. Scott Berg

LOVE, LIFE AND ELEPHANTS, Dame Daphne Sheldrick

A FORT OF NINE TOWERS, Qais Akbar Omar

Young Adult:

ELEANOR AND PARK, Rainbow Rowell
FANGIRL, Rainbow Rowell

COUNTING BY 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan
THE TESTING, Joelle Charbonneau
FALLING KINGDOMS, Morgan Rhodes

WEDNESDAY WARS, Gary D. Schmidt

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, John Green

THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, Sherman Alexie

Childrens’:

THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT

THE MAN WITH THE VIOLIN

RUFUS GOES TO SCHOOL