Fall 2023 Book List | A list of fiction titles to be published for the fall of 2023, recommended by your EPL librarians. Download the printable list here.
Winter 2024 Book List | A list of fiction titles to be published for January, February, and March, recommended by your EPL librarians. Download the printable list here.
November 2023
 | The Peasant King |
Afshar, Tessa |
When her mother, the Persian king’s famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. |
 | The Little Liar |
Albom, Mitch |
When the Nazi’s invade Greece, 11-year-old Nico is offered a chance to save his family if he assists the Nazi’s in getting Jews to board the trains. Only after it is too late does he discover what happens to them. |
 | The Future |
Alderman, Naomi |
The Future – as the richest people on the planet have discovered – is where the money is – and the future is here. |
 | Baumgartner |
Auster, Paul |
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief. At 71, Baumgartner’s wife has passed, and he reminisces about their deep and abiding love for each other over the last 40 years. |
 | The Edge |
Baldacci, David |
The hotly anticipated follow-up to David Baldacci's runaway number one Sunday Times Bestselling thriller, The 6:20 Man, featuring Travis Devine. |
 | Bookshops & Bonedust |
Baldree, Travis |
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek. |
 | All We Could Still Have |
Barnes, Diane |
In their attempts to have a child, a husband and wife must contend with personal desires, crossed boundaries, and broken trust as they reimagine what it truly means to be a family. |
 | Once Upon A Charming Bookshop |
Bell, Heatherly |
He had always been her best friend, but when Noah Cahill moved back to town, Twyla knew something was different. |
 | Alice Sadie Celine |
Blakley-Cartwright Sarah |
Alice and Sadie have been best friends since high school, but when Sadie begs her mother to see Alice’s new play, she does not expect her mother to become entranced with Alice and her performance. |
 | Poster Girl |
Blanton-Stroud, Shelley |
Cynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR’s Office of War Information, a propaganda unit, to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl to urge more women to the shipyard work essential to America’s winning World War II—and, incidentally, to make herself into the new Hedda Hopper. But somebody doesn’t want those women at work. |
 | The Proof of the Pudding |
Bowen, Rhys |
Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house party when the festivities lead to murder. |
 | Spirit of the Wood |
Britain, Kristen |
In this backstory to Laren Mapstone’s life, we learn how Tavin must save her before his own empathic gift destroys them both. |
 | Sister of Starlit Seas |
Brooks, Terry |
A rebellious young heroine begins a voyage of self-discovery. |
 | The New Naturals |
Bump, Gabriel |
A moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found a Black Utopia. |
 | The Olympian Affair |
Butcher, Jim |
The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords. |
 | Tom Clancy’s Command and Control |
Cameron, Marc |
President Jack Ryan finds himself caught in the middle of a military coup in South America. |
 | The Fiction Writer |
Cantor, Jillian |
Hired by a reclusive billionaire to write a book about his grandmother and her shocking secret involving Daphne du Maurier, Olivia soon finds herself trapped in a gothic mystery of her own. |
 | The General and Julia |
Clinch, Jon |
Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy. |
 | Starstruck |
Clipston, Amy |
Can a small-town waitress capture the heart of a world-famous heartthrob? |
 | Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord |
Connally, Celeste |
Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in Act Like a Lady, in this dazzling first entry in a captivating new Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin. |
 | Resurrection Walk |
Connelly, Michael |
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. |
 | Behind the Lies |
Cooper, Maren |
Thinking he is about to be made CEO, Will is surprised when his boss tells him he is actually about to be fired for mysterious reasons, but when his boss falls ill it is up to Will to solve the mystery. |
 | Sharpe’s Command |
Cornwell, Bernard |
If any man can do the impossible it is Richard Sharpe, and the impossible is exactly what he is asked to do when he’s sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. |
 | Unnatural Death |
Cornwell, Patricia |
Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta’s career. |
 | The Good Part |
Cousens, Sophie |
A downtrodden 26-year-old wakes up to the life she’s always wanted, but is it really a dream come true? |
 | Bulletproof Barista |
Coyle, Cleo |
When a film crew's week of shooting delivers an actual shooting, coffeehouse manager and master roaster Clare Cosi and her staff find themselves at the scene of a true crime. |
 | Odyssey’s End |
Coyle, Matt |
Brain disease worsening, Rick Cahill risks everything— even his life— to provide for his fractured family' s future. |
 | Day |
Cunningham, Michael |
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious, and learning to go on. |
 | The Corsican Shadow |
Cussler, Dirk and Clive Cussler |
Dirk Pitt returns in the latest novel. |
 | Do Your Worst |
Danan, Rosie |
Sparks fly when an occult expert and a disgraced archeologist become enemies-with-benefits in this steamy romance. |
 | The Watchmaker’s Hand |
Deaver, Jeffery |
When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses causing mass destruction and killing several people, Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are on the case. |
 | IWO, 26 Charlie |
Deutermann, P.T. |
A story about Iwo Jima, the raising of the American Flag, and the 26,000 Americans who were killed there. |
 | The Lost Cause |
Doctorow, Cory |
It’s 30 years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry people who can’t let go? |
 | That Others May Live |
Driscoll, Sara |
Some situations fill even the most seasoned FBI K-9 handlers with shock and horror. Then Meg gets word that a part of a twelve-story condo building has collapsed, and every search-and-rescue worker and K-9 team is needed on-site immediately to find survivors and assess the casualties. |
 | Murder in a Cup |
Elliott, Lauren |
As an eclectic tea shop owner descended from an Irish witch, intuitive Shay Myers has been living her most authentic life since moving home to California’s scenic Monterey Peninsula. Yet not even her heightened senses can predict how to run a business—or catch a killer. |
 | Vamp |
Estleman, Loren D. |
Film Detective Valentino must navigate the shady underbelly of Hollywood once more, in a dangerous adventure that threatens not only his career but his life! |
 | I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died |
Flower, Amanda |
When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder. |
 | The Porcelain Maker |
Freethy, Sarah |
An epic story of love, betrayal, and art that spans decades through the horrors of World War II to 21st century America, inspired by an actual porcelain factory in Dachau. |
 | The Book of Ayn |
Freiman, Lexi |
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, this novel follows a writer from New York to Los Angeles to Lesbos as she searches for artistic and spiritual fulfillment in radical selfishness, altruism, and ego-death. |
 | The Spy Coast |
Gerritsen, Tess |
Maggie Bird, a seemingly average 60-yearold, is living the quiet life until a mysterious woman shows up dead in her driveway. It’s been 15 years since she ran assets for the CIA, and now she and her “book club” swiftly revert to espionage mode. |
 | Murder Checks Out |
Gilbert, Victoria |
It’s not all snowflakes and sugarplums when murder crashes Taylorsford’s first Winterfest. |
 | A Twisted Skein |
Goldenbaum, Sally |
Seaside Knitter Birdie is enjoying her rekindled pleasure in bird watching until she stumbles upon the body of a fellow bird watcher. |
 | This Passing Hour |
Gould, Leslie |
While recovering from the death of her parents Mennonite Brenna relocates and befriends Rylan Sanders, a disabled veteran, and commits to rising above her own grief to help him as much as she can |
 | Her Secret Hope |
Gray, Shelley Shepard |
Lilly has run off to Pinecraft, Florida to avoid her past, but when Eddie Byler shows up from her hometown, she knows she can never follow the man she loves back there. |
 | Murder in Williamstown |
Greenwood, Kerry |
The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is up to her elegant eyebrows in mystery once again! |
 | We Must Not Think of Ourselves |
Grodstein, Lauren |
A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II. |
 | Slay |
Hamilton, Laurell K |
Anita must now face one of her biggest challenges – introducing her very religious, very human relatives to her fiancé, the newly crowned vampire king of America. |
 | A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch |
Hawley, Sarah |
When Astaroth is stripped of his immortality, he suffers from amnesia, and Calladia decides she must help the despicable vulnerable demon she despises. |
 | A Curse of Krakens |
Hearne, Kevin |
The final book in the epic fantasy trilogy that began with A Plague of Giants about a war that broke a continent and opened the door to a new world. |
 | Never Wager with a Wallflower |
Heath, Virginia |
Venus Merriwell is looking for love and not a gambler like her father; then gambler Galahad Sinclair comes to town. |
 | Never Met a Duke Like You |
Howard, Amalie |
Lady Vesper Lyndhurst has sworn off love, but when the insolvent Duke of Greydon returns the attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore, and even harder to resist. |
 | What a Wave Must Be |
Hunt, Angela |
A powerful story of a family’s journey toward healing and hope after an unimaginable loss. |
 | Night Train to Marrakech |
Jefferies, Dinah |
Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery, but the past holds secrets that threaten them both. |
 | Deus X |
Jones, Stephen |
Detroit ex-cop August Snow puts his life on the line to protect a friend from modern-day Templars sworn to protect the name of the Catholic church at all costs. |
 | Before We Say Goodbye |
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu |
New visitors have arrived at the Café Funiculi Funicula. |
 | Gaslight |
Kayode, Femi |
Philip Taiwo returns to solve a missing-persons case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide. |
 | Blood Betrayal |
Khan, Ausma Zehanat |
When a young Black man is killed by a veteran police officer, it is up to Det. Inaya Rahman to find out the truth of what happened. |
 | Just Once |
Kingsbury, Karen |
Torn between two brothers, both of whom are off to fight in WWII, Irvel fears that neither brother will make it home and that she will lose everything. |
 | Street Corner Dreams |
Kraut, Florence Reiss |
Just before WWI, Golda comes to America yearning for independence, but she tosses aside her dreams of freedom and marries her widowed brother-in-law after her sister dies giving birth to their son, Morty. |
 | Plot Twist |
La Rosa, Erin |
Romance author Sophie Lyon has never been in love. When writer’s block slows her down, she hopes a friends with benefits relationship with her reclusive landlord might do the trick. |
 | Chaos Terminal |
Lafferty, Mur |
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective and fled to outer space to avoid it, but when one of the new human arrivals on a space shuttle is murdered, she’s back in the game. |
 | Housemoms |
Lancaster, Jen |
Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel about fresh starts, whether you want them or not. |
 | Sun of Blood and Ruin |
Lares, Mariely |
Rumor has it on the streets of 16th century New Spain, there’s a new vigilante in town serving justice. |
 | Assassin’s Mark |
Larsen, Ward |
Hard-hitting assassin, David Slaton, returns for another breathless adventure. |
 | Born to be Badger |
Laurenston, Shelly |
Tock is a tough honey badger, and when Shay Malone, ferociously adorable tiger, shows up it is a good thing that revenge is best served hot. |
 | The Frozen River |
Lawhon, Ariel |
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community. |
 | The Girl in the Vault |
Ledwidge, Michael |
When Faye Walker’s future is destroyed by a treacherous betrayal she does not lie down and take it. She comes back with a plan requiring Swiss watch timing, nerves of steel, and ten million dollars in cold hard Wall Street cash. |
 | God's Forumla |
Lepore, James |
It is 1939. The scourge that is Nazi Germany is trampling Europe as its scientists vie to deliver ever-increasing destructive power. Now physicist Walter Friedeman, a friend of Albert Einstein's since childhood, has found a formula to enrich uranium in three months rather than the previously expected five years. |
 | Broken Trust |
Lupica, Mike |
Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire. |
 | The Manor House |
Macmillan, Gilly |
Childhood sweethearts Nicole and Tom are a normal, loving couple until a massive lottery win changes their lives overnight. |
 | My Armenian Friend |
Makine, Andrei |
A heart-wrenching novel that is at once an indelible portrait of friendship, a coming-of-age tale, and a dive into the memory of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire. |
 | Betrayal |
Margolin, Phillip |
Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life. |
 | A Power Unbound |
Marske, Freya |
When a plot to seize unimaginable magic power comes to a head on Jack’s own family estate, Jack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets and bloody sacrifice, and the foundations of magic in Britain might be torn up by the roots before the end. |
 | Past Lying |
McDermid, Val |
DCI Karen Pirie is in a propulsive new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against the disquiet and investigative challenges of a global pandemic. |
 | Absolution |
McDermott, Alice |
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War from the renowned winner of the National Book Award. |
 | A Very Inconvenient Scandal |
Mitchard, Jacquelyn |
Stunned by her recently widowed father’s reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world, where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all. |
 | The Tatami Time Machine Blues |
Morimi, Tomihiko |
In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. |
 | Impossible Object |
Mosley, Nicholas |
A collection of stories: Through the lives of a couple observed by different narrators, these eight interconnected stories explore the notion that life can never be realized except in recognition of the impossibility of attaining it. |
 | Cold Curses |
Neill, Chloe |
It’s all magical hands on deck for vampire Elisa Sullivan and her allies as they fight to save the Windy City from a supernatural onslaught. |
 | Play of Shadows |
Nickless, Barbara |
An ancient creature of Greek mythology drives a killer’s unspeakable motives. |
 | The Talk of Coyote Canyon |
Novak, Brenda |
She’s not here to make friends. She’s here to make trouble. With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn’t quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon—and that’s just fine with her. She’s only here to put her father out of business as payback for abandoning her when she was young. |
 | The Vulnerables |
Nunez, Sigrid |
Three strangers are thrown together in one Manhattan apartment: a solitary writer; a Gen Z college drop-out; and a spirited parrot named Eureka. This novel reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. |
 | Cross Out |
Patterson, James |
Alex Cross, fresh from a brush with death himself, is on the trail of the Dead Hours Killer. |
 | A Christmas Vanishing |
Perry, Anne |
Charlotte Pitt’s clever grandmother investigates the sudden disappearance of her dear friend. |
 | Knowing You |
Peterson, Tracie |
Could a captivating art exhibit hold the key to truth and love? |
 | The Helsinki Affair |
Pitoniak, Anna |
It is the case of Amanda’s lifetime, but solving it will require her to betray another spy – her father! |
 | The Mystery Guest |
Prose, Nita |
A new mess. A new mystery. It’s up to Molly the maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty. |
 | Silver Lady |
Putney, Mary |
Bran Tremayne heads home to Cornwall to confront his heritage, but finds he cannot turn away from the vulnerable woman he encounters in the countryside. |
 | We Are The Light |
Quick, Matthew |
A poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town. |
 | Hunt on Dark Waters |
Robert, Katee |
A stern captain meets his witchy match in this captivating first fantasy romance novel. |
 | Inheritance |
Roberts, Nora |
In 1806, Astrid Poole is murdered on her wedding day. Her last words - a promise to her husband never to leave him. Sonya MacTavish has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries-old curse, and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking it. |
 | Onyx |
Robins, Navi |
The Onyx Institute of Higher Learning’s purpose is to give at-risk African American and Hispanic children a new direction. Some consider the Onyx Institute a training ground for homegrown terrorism, and the newly elected President has vowed to deal with the “Onyx Problem” swiftly. The students of Onyx won't give up so easily, and soon the entire world will bear witness to the power of unity and hope in the hands of a new generation. |
 | The Wishing Bridge |
Shipman, Viola |
In an attempt to revive her career, Henrietta tries to convince her parents to sell their Christmas store to a massive corporations, but after reconnecting at home what sounded great in the boardroom begins to lose its luster. |
 | There Should Have Been Eight |
Singh, Nalini |
A remote estate in New Zealand’s Southern Alps hosts a reunion no one will ever forget. |
 | A Touch of Chaos |
St. Clair, Scarlett |
The gods are at war; the Titans have been released, and Hades and Persephone must fight tooth and nail for their happy ending. |
 | The Ball at Versailles |
Steel, Danielle |
The most glamorous social event of 1958, the Ball at Versailles, was the stuff of dreams for many young women looking to “marry well.” Amelia, Caroline, Samantha, and Felicity all see the ball as an outdated tradition, they never imagined how it could change their lives forever. |
 | The Beautiful and the Wild |
Townsend, Peggy |
The dangers of Alaska aren't limited to storms, starvation, and grizzly bears. Sometimes the most dangerous thing is the person you love. |
 | Wages of Sin |
Turtledove, Harry |
A terrifying tale about HIV spreading in the early 16th century. |
 | Shot With Crimson |
Upson, Nicola |
Violence finds its way to old Hollywood. |
 | System Collapse |
Wells, Martha |
There’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself. |
 | The Navigator's Children |
Williams, Tad |
The war continues, and Prince Morgan and Nezeru come face-to-face with an ancient secret that has kindled the war – one that will destroy immortals and humans alike. |