Popular Reads You May Have Missed!

It's hard to keep up with new and popular titles when they come out. Summer is a great time to catch up on those big, buzzy books that you might have missed the first time around.

Updated June 18, 2025
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As I lay dying : the corrected text
Faulkner, William
Audiobook
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most...
Bel canto : a novel
Patchett, Ann.
Audiobook
Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. "Blissfully Romantic....A strange, terrific, spellcasting story." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Bel Canto...should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and...
The bluest eye
Morrison, Toni.
Ebook
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIE Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and...
Empire Falls
Russo, Richard
Audiobook
Richard Russo--from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man--has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country. Dexter...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaffer, Mary Ann.
Paper Book
The most heartwarming, glorious and gorgeous novel that you will read all year.
The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy.
Ebook
'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women,...
Love in the time of cholera
García Márquez, Gabriel
Ebook
Night
Wiesel, Elie
Paper Book
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity- the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of...
Normal people : a novel
Rooney, Sally
Ebook
'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' Guardian 'The book that defined a generation.' Stylist ** Read the modern classic behind the BAFTA-winning series. ** Connell and Marianne grow up in the...
Pillars of the earth
Follett, Ken.
Paper Book
A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven...
The red tent
Diamant, Anita.
Ebook
Siddhartha.
Hesse, Hermann
Paper Book
Dissatisfied with the traditional Vedic way of life, Siddhartha, the handsome son of a Brahmin, leaves his family and his friend, Govinda, in search of a higher state of being. Having experienced the myriad forms of existence, from the wealthy and luxurious, to the pleasures of sensual and...
When breath becomes air
Kalanithi, Paul
Ebook
**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a...
A wrinkle in time
L'Engle, Madeleine.
Paper Book
Disney takes the classic sci-fi adventure, A Wrinkle in Time to the silver screen! With an all-star cast that includes Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, and newcomer Storm Reid, the major motion picture brings the world of Wrinkle to life for a new generation of...

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