PLDL Most Popular Titles May 2026

Portage Lake District Library Most Popular Titles May 2026

Updated June 2, 2026
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PLDL Most Popular Titles May 2026

Portage Lake District Library Most Popular Titles May 2026

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1

Handle with care
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated--she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance" (Stephen King...

2

Death Times Seven
Perry, Anne.
Paper Book
Death Times Seven is the seventh and final gripping Daniel Pitt mystery in which Daniel faces two of the greatest challenges of his life. Following Anne Perry's death, this novel was completed by Victoria Zackheim, an author and editor as well as Perry's close friend, and is...

3

Judge Stone
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
Viola Davis and James Patterson have written an incredible courtroom drama and created the most unforgettable character in years. All rise...for Judge Stone. The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary...

4

Last one out
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
THE NO. 1 AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLER FROM THE MASTER OF CRIME He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone. In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his 21st birthday. But Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three...

5

Someone we know
Lapeña, Shari
Paper Book
"No-one does suburban paranoia like Shari Lapena--this slowly unfurling nightmare will have you biting your nails until the end." --Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times<...

6

The keeper
French, Tana
Paper Book
On a cold night in a remote Irish village, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she's dead in the river. In a place like this, her death isn't simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power...

7

The news from Dublin
Toibin, Colm
Paper Book
A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour. A young woman is pregnant during the Spanish Civil War....

8

This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone
Mack, Catherine.
Paper Book
Eleanor Dash can never catch a break. Not only has she had to solve two real-life murder plots in the past year, but both times it was when she was meant to be on vacation. Now she's finally got a ticket to a relaxing weekend - an all-inclusive resort at the Bahamas where she's speaking at a...

9

26 Beauties
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
FROM THE WORLD'S BESTSELLING THRILLER WRITER Discover the brand new gripping novel in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series and Sunday Times bestseller. 'A sophisticated, pulse-driven thriller' - 5-star reader review '...

10

A walk in the woods
Bryson, Bill
Ebook

11

Absolute power
Baldacci, David.
Paper Book
In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a Virginia mansion, and witnesses a brutal crime involving the president--​a man who believes he can get away with anything. In a heavily guarded mansion in the...

12

All your perfects : a novel
Hoover, Colleen
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reminders of Him, It Starts with Us, and It Ends with Us--whose writing is "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sara Shepard, New York...

13

American Fantasy
Straub, Emma
Paper Book
*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* EMBARK ON THE JOYOUS AND NOSTALGIC JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME IN THE LATEST NOVEL FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THIS TIME TOMORROW AND ALL ADULTS HERE 'Pure joy' Ann...

14

Are you mad at me? : how to stop focusing on what others think and start living for you
Josephson, Meg
Paper Book
Are you constantly worried about what people think of you, if they like you, if they're mad at you? This book will help you understand why. We've all heard of fight, flight or freeze. Psychotherapist Meg Josephson reveals a fourth common yet overlooked trauma response- 'fawning',...

15

Bloodlust
Brown, Sandra
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a new signature sexy suspense about a detective seeking justice for his murdered wife with the help of a psychotherapist ... while fighting an undeniable attraction to her. Two years ago...

16

Camino ghosts
Grisham, John
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Will an ancient curse darken the skies over Camino Island? Bruce Cable and Mercer Mann are about to find out. Don't miss John Grisham's forthcoming thriller, The French Illusion! Mercer Mann, a popular writer from...

17

Cold zero : a thriller
Thor, Brad
Paper Book
From #1New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor and USA TODAY bestselling author Ward Larsen, comes a heart-pounding thriller of survival, espionage, and global brinkmanship, where the frozen Arctic becomes the deadliest battlefield on Earth. A vanished...

18

Daughter of mine a novel
Miranda, Megan
Paper Book
" The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local...

19

Famesick: ; A memoir
Dunham, Lena.
Paper Book
Famesick is a frank, deeply personal reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, from the mind behind the hit series Girls and Too Much, and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl.

20

Go Gentle
Semple, Maria.
Paper Book

21

Good people
Sabit, Patmeena
Paper Book
CHOSEN AS A 2026 MUST-READ BOOK BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, NEW ARAB AND BBC CULTURE 'AWFULLY ADDICTIVE . . . PEOPLE, GOOD AND BAD, ARE GOING TO LOVE IT' GUARDIAN 'SHARP,...

22

Heart the lover
King, Lily
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces you' The Times'Exploring how first love shapes a...

23

Hope Rises
Baldacci, David.
Paper Book
Walter Nash began a journey down a dark path of seemingly no return, and now he  finds himself questioning everything that got him there in this thrilling sequel to Nash Falls from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. ...

24

Into the Midnight Wood
McCollum, Alexandra
Paper Book
'Absolutely irresistibly charming, with an achingly beautiful heart beneath all the charm!' Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop 'The romantic, mist-cloaked fairytale of my dreams. I would take an arrow for David and Meredith'<...

25

It's Not Her
Kubica, Mary.
Paper Book
'Cancel your plans, you won't be able to put this one down' - CHRIS WHITAKER 'Tantalizing, terrifying and all too real' - SHARI LAPENA 'A gripping thrill ride' - JENEVA ROSE THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Two families at a secluded lake...

26

Jigsaw
Kellerman, Jonathan
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis, the most beloved duo in American crime fiction, return in this electric novel from...

27

John of John
Stuart, Douglas
Paper Book
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. Oprah's Book Club Book of the Month.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it...

28

Just for the summer
Jimenez, Abby
Paper Book
'No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself' EMILY HENRY 'Funny and poignant, relatable and aspirational, heart-tugging and satisfying. It is, in a word, perfect' CHRISTINA LAUREN 'Abby...

29

Keeper of lost children
Johnson, Sadeqa
Paper Book
'A powerful and beautifully told novel about hidden secrets and the hunger to belong. I loved it' Clare Leslie Hall, author of BROKEN COUNTRY 'Has future classic written all over it' Red Magazine 'I loved everything about this book' Julia Quinn,...

30

Kin
Jones, Tayari.
Paper Book
Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find- smart and funny. ANN PATCHETT A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence...

31

Lady Tremaine
Hochhauser, Rachel.
Paper Book

32

Listen for the lie
Tintera, Amy
Paper Book
Am I a murderer? You tell me . . . Lucy Chase can't remember anything about the night her best friend was murdered. Lucky her, you're probably thinking. Who would want that to be their last memory of someone they love? But for Lucy, it's become an issue....

33

London Falling : A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City, and a Family's Search for Truth
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Paper Book
In 2019, teenager Zac Brettler mysteriously fell to his death from a luxury apartment balcony into the Thames. As his grieving parents began to investigate his final days, they were shocked to learn that he'd been leading a double life, in which he was posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch...

34

Lonesome dove
McMurtry, Larry.
Paper Book
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classicLonesome Dove, the third book in theLonesome Dovetetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome...

35

Lord of the flies : a novel
Golding, William
Paper Book
First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern novels. This edition, which includes an introduction and notes by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes, meets the demand for its use in schools and its prescription by...

36

Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life
Hartigan, Rachel
Paper Book
Unravel one of history's greatest mysteries in this spellbinding narrative, filled with compelling images, that explores the three leading theories of Amelia Earhart's tragic disappearance. When Amelia Earhart's plane disappeared in 1937, the clues poured in, attracting wild...

37

Mad Mabel
Hepworth, Sally
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and Darling Girls comes the story of Mad Mabel. They called it murder. She called it justice.In 1959, at just fifteen years of age, Mabel Waller became the youngest Australian in history to be convicted of...

38

Meet me at the lake
Fortune, Carley
Paper Book

39

The antique hunter's murder at the castle
Miller, C. L.
Paper Book
In their most gripping case yet, Freya Lockwood and Aunt Carole are back . . .The Lockwood Antique Hunter's Agency return for a third instalment in this perfect cosy crime series in a race against time set in the haunting Scottish countryside.A mission for stolen art turns dire when one of Freya and...

40

No one would do what the Lamberts have done
Hannah, Sophie
Paper Book
'No one writes twisted, suspenseful novels quite like Sophie Hannah'. Liane Moriarty 'The twist is perfection. I think it's just about the cleverest thing I've ever read' Gillian McAllister 'If you think there's nothing new in crime, this is the book to read. Truly...
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