October 5
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Set in Mississippi in 1947. Two soldiers, one from a landowner family and the other from that family's sharecropper family, return to find old prejudices prevail. Both families tell their version of an event and draw the reader into the building drama.
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September 7
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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Set in 1939 outside of Munich, Germany, The Book Thief focuses on a girl who steals books and shares them with neighbors
August 3
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong.
July 6
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is historical fiction. It is a bestselling novel (2009) by Jamie Ford about the love and friendship between Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy, and Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American girl, during the internment in World War II.
