The List
10 best books like The List (Karin Tanabe): The Wrong Side of Right, The Queen of Hearts, The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, The Assistants, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers, Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions, Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story, Infinite Home
Kate Quinn’s mom died last year, leaving Kate parentless and reeling. So when the unexpected shows up in her living room, Kate must confront another reality she never thought possible—or thought of at all. Kate does have a father. He’s a powerful politician. And he’s running for U.S. President....
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Southern Living, Elite Daily, and Writer's Digest
A debut novel set against a background of hospital rounds and life-or-death decisions that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness...
Zadie Anson...
The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
| Author | Susan Page |
| ISBN | 1549170015 |
A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.
Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country’s most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told.
THE MATRIARCH tells...
| Author | Camille Perri |
| ISBN | 0399172548 |
A wry and astute debut about a young Manhattanite whose embezzlement scam turns her into an unlikely advocate for the leagues of overeducated and underpaid assistants across the city.
Tina Fontana is the hapless but brazen thirty-year-old executive assistant to Robert Barlow, the all-powerful...
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
| Author | Jeff Speck |
| ISBN | 0374285810 |
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical...
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers
The New York Times Best Seller
For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charmingly illustrated treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults...
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
| Author | Mario Giordano |
| ISBN | 1328863573 |
On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily, intending to while away the rest of her days with good wine, a view of the sea, and few visitors. But Sicily isn’t quite the tranquil island she thought it would be, and something always seems to get in the way of her relaxation. When her handsome...
| Author | Lauren Drain |
| ISBN | 1455512427 |
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson...
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based in part on previously classified documents, Patricia...
| Author | Kathleen Alcott |
| ISBN | 1594633630 |
A beautifully wrought story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together.
Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways—in spirit, in mind, in body,...
It's an election season gone wild in this "irresistible" (Cosmopolitan) and "whip-smart" (Us Weekly) novel about a delicious cast of characters who forge an unlikely friendship while their significant others are out on the campaign trail.
Cady Davenport is living the American dream...
At...
The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0824519507 |
In this book Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert explain the enneagram, an ancient personality test used first by Christian ascetics and monks and later by Muslim sufis. It divides people into nine personality types which can be described by their primary need ("need to be perfect", "need to succeed", etc.),...
| Author | John Kenney |
| ISBN | 1451675542 |
A wickedly funny, honest, and poignant debut novel in the spirit of Then We Came to the End and This Is Where I Leave You about the absurdity of corporate life, the complications of love, and the meaning of family.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives. I have...
From talented debut author Simone Kelly comes this suspenseful novel that crackles with intrigue, sex, and plenty of surprises—perfect for fans of Zane and Carl Weber.
Meet Jacques Berradi. Moroccan-born and Manhattan-raised, his genuine, sexy-smooth allure goes hand in hand with...
| Author | Hannah Pittard |
| ISBN | 0544748069 |
From a writer who “deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction”* comes an epic novel—based on true events—of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post)
It’s a humid June day when...
| Author | Alisyn Camerota |
| ISBN | 0399563997 |
The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary Colors in this wickedly funny debut novel about a bootstrapping young reporter who lands a plum job at a big-time cable news station and finds her ambitions and her love life turned upside down.
When Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands...
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
| Author | Alan Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0199747490 |
In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America....
| Author | Kate White |
| ISBN | 0446617695 |
Meet Bailey Weggins, the thirty-something, single-again true crime writer for a leading Manhattan woman's magazine. Smart and savvy, she's got a sixth sense when it comes to seeing the truth in a story-especially if it's murder. Bailey's in bed with her commitment-challenged lover K.C. when she...
