DH Staff Picks Winter 2026

Some of the Dorothy Henry Library staff's favorite recent reads. All titles are available at SCLS.

Updated December 30, 2025
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Broken country : a novel
Hall, Clare Leslie
Demon Copperhead : a novel
Kingsolver, Barbara
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century * An Oprah's Book Club Selection * An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller * A #1 Washington Post...
Fairy tale : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours....
The Friday afternoon club :
Dunne, Griffin
Ebook
The instant New York Times bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail "Warm and perceptive." --New York Times "Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." --Washington...
The gales of November : the untold story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Bacon, John U.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Smithsonian * 10 Best History Books of 2025 Bookpage * Best Books of 2025 "A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classic. Readers of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, Erik Larsen's Dead Wake, and Nathaniel...
Holly : a novel
King, Stephen
Ebook
#1 New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of the Year Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling "exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil" (...
The honey witch
Shields, Sydney J.
Ebook
In this instant bestseller, the Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn't believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet romantasy novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.  ...
The Hunting Wives
Cobb, May K.
Paper Book
A Most Anticipated Novel by The Skimm * Cosmopolitan * SheReads * Frolic * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Goodreads * E! Online * Betches * Crime Reads * Pure Wow * Book Riot * Bustle * and more! A Book of the Month Club Selection "Gossipy, scandalous housewives behaving badly...
James : a novel
Everett, Percival
Ebook
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view * In development as a feature film to be...
The kitchen front : a novel
Ryan, Jennifer
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING *...
The names
Knapp, Florence
THE YEAR'S BREAKOUT NOVEL AND WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT--A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND READ WITH JENNA PICK "Dazzling. . . Knapp tirelessly and beautifully replicates not just loss and grief but endless rebirth and delight." --The Washington Post "Elegant. . ....
Still life
Penny, Louise.
Paper Book
Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a...
The stranger
Camus, Albert
Paper Book
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
Sunrise on the reaping
Collins, Suzanne
The surrogate mother
McFadden, Freida
Audiobook
Sworn to silence
Castillo, Linda.
Paper Book
A killer is preying on sacred ground....   In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming...
The teller of small fortunes
Leong, Julie
Ebook
USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this cozy fantasy debut, hailed as "perfection...a beautiful treasure of a book that will warm your heart and heal your soul."--Sarah Beth Durst, Author of The Spellshop "The warmest,...
To sleep in a sea of stars
Paolini, Christopher
Paper Book
Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Winner of Best Science Fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards! To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of...
You're not supposed to die tonight
Bayron, Kalynn
Ebook

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