PLDL Most Popular Titles May 2026

Portage Lake District Library Most Popular Titles May 2026

Updated June 2, 2026
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1

Handle with care : a novel
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her...

2

Death times seven
Perry, Anne
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

First and Forever
Painter, Lynn
Duffy Distefano loves three things- her dad, her cat, and Minneapolis Coyotes football. But when she shoves the team's mascot for getting too flirty, the moment goes viral-and she's suddenly the internet's villain. Hoping to clear her name, Duffy agrees to a live interview, only to face off with the...

4

Five
Bannister, Ilona
Paper Book
Five passengers. Five minutes until the next train ... five minutes until someone dies. 'Will have you glued to the page ... guaranteed to shock and entertain' The Times 'Ridiculously good ... darkly thrilling and unforgettable' Chris Whitaker 'An excellent...

5

Judge Stone : a novel
Davis, Viola
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...

6

Last One Out
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
International bestselling author Jane Harper returns. 'Utterly brilliant . . . I could not put it down' - Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favorite Mistake He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone.<...

7

Someone we know
Lapena, Shari
Paper Book
The latest unputdownable thriller from queen of the one-sit read Shari Lapena, the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR. 'A masterful whodunnit, perfectly paced and expertly plotted, that had me guessing all the way through. I loved it and couldn't put it...

8

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...

9

The News from Dublin: Stories
Toibin, Colm
Paper Book
In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Tóibín delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves....

10

We burned so bright
Klune, TJ
We Burned So Bright is the heartfelt, queer, road trip of a novel from TJ Klune, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Cerulean Chronicles and The Bones Beneath My SkinHusbands Don and Rodney have lived a good, long life. Together, they've experienced the highest...

11

26 beauties
Patterson, James
Paper Book
The twenty-sixth thrilling novel in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series. ______________________________________________________ Beautiful young women are disappearing by the dozen. A celebration is cut short when a concerned...

12

All your perfects : a novel
Hoover, Colleen
Ebook

13

American fantasy
Straub, Emma
Annie is- On a cruise with her one-time favourite boyband and a thousand female super-fans Still reeling from her divorce Being replaced at work by her intern Keith is- Fifty years old and in a band that performs dance...

14

Camino ghosts
Grisham, John
Paper Book
Following John Grisham's international bestsellers, Camino Island and Camino Winds, Camino Ghosts is the story of an island off the Florida coast with a haunted, violent history and an uncertain future. Dark Isle off the Florida coast is said to be cursed:...

15

Cold zero : a thriller
Thor, Brad
THIS IS A PAPERBACK EDITION FOR THE EXPORT MARKET. 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...

16

Daughter of mine : a novel
Miranda, Megan
Paper Book
Sometimes the darkest secrets are buried the deepest . . . When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town - and people - she left behind almost a decade earlier. ...

17

Go gentle : a novel
Semple, Maria
The new novel from the bestselling author of Where'd You Go Bernadette ⭐ 'Smart, funny and devastating in a great way' Jennette McCurdy ⭐⭐ 'I felt both cleverer and sillier after finishing this book'...

18

Good people : a novel
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,...

19

Heart the lover : a novel
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...

20

Hope rises
Baldacci, David
Walter Nash was once a mild-mannered and content businessman, thriving in his success and surrounded by a loving family. Everything changed when the FBI revealed his company as a criminal empire and enlisted him in a daring mission to dismantle it. Driven by justice and revenge, Nash was forced to...

21

Into the Midnight Wood
McCollum, Alexandra
'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'<...

22

Jigsaw
Kellerman, Jonathan
The gripping new crime novel featuring Alex Delaware from the bestselling master of suspense. When a young woman is found dead at her kitchen table - with DNA belonging to her ex-boyfriend at the scene - psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis assume it's an open...

23

John of John
Stuart, Douglas
Paper Book
From Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a stunning new novel, John of John. Set in the Isle of Harris, John of John is a tender and devastating story of love...

24

Kin
Jones, Tayari
Paper Book
THE SPELLBINDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE * 'This is Tayari Jones's very best work.' ANN PATCHETT, author of Tom Lake ...

25

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....

26

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...

27

Lord of the flies : a novel
Golding, William
Paper Book
This dystopian classic, which has sold over 25 million copies, is 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong? 'One of my favorite books - I...

28

Mad Mabel
Hepworth, Sally
Paper Book
Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Fitzpatrick lives a quiet life in the suburbs. Aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else's business, few would suspect she harbours a secret she's worked hard to bury. Because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old...

29

Moonlight express : around the world by night train.
Rajesh, Monisha
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2026 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2026 INSPIRE GLOBAL MEDIA AWARDSA FINANCIAL TIMES READERS BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the...

30

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...

31

No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
Hannah, Sophie
Paper Book

32

Now I surrender
Enrigue, Alvaro
Paper Book
In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a Mexican woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband's ranch. Meanwhile, a lieutenant colonel of the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, will soon discover he's on the trail of a...

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