Summer weather has finally arrived and readers are looking for that perfect book. Fiction is the popular choice – to fill your sun-bake hours or to spice up your “staycation.” Can you identify these top ten most popular books? (books with the greatest number of holds at the Library.)
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1.A long-awaited thriller from the author of a previous religious thriller blockbuster, this book has 46 holds before publication date! Don’t worry; we will have many copies.
2.Published in 2007, this collection of connected short stories describes life in a small New England town. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
3.Travel to 1960s Jackson Mississippi and get to know the women- black and white- who live together.
4.Chinese-American sisters sent to 1930s Los Angeles cope with marriages arranged by their father.
5.Feminist view of the 20th-century told through the lives of several generations of one activist family. Come and discuss the book with the author at the Library on September 30 at noon.
6.The life and loves of 1990s Smith college girls as their friendships endure.
7.“Set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town…” by a Westport author.
8.An historical novel in letters set in German-occupied Britain tells of a special book club.
9.Intelligent Swedish thriller- the second of a trilogy- by a deceased author.
10.A kidnapping at Camp David propels this national security thriller.
ANSWERS
1.Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2.Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
5. Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
6.Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
7. Dune Road by Jane Green
8. Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Sheffer
9. Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
10. First Family by David Baldacci
