What are you reading? Check out popular author's new releases and what others have recently enjoyed.

What have you been reading this winter?  Have you found your favorite book of the year? I have two so far, "My Absolute Darling" by Gabriel Tallent and "The Good Daughter" by Karen Slaughter. Both are not for the faint of heart, but the main heroines will engage and endear you through to the end.

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Popular authors Clive Cussler, Kristin Hannah, and Brad Meltzer shine again with their newest releases and top the New York Times Best Seller list. British author Rachel Joyce, author of a Duxbury favorite "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry", has released a charming story,  "The Music Shop", based on another engaging eccentric male character. Author JoJo Moyes has released "Still Me", her third installment of the story of heroine, Louisa Clark. Patrons have told us that "Still Me" is more reminiscent of the best seller "Me Before You" than JoJo Moyes 2015 release "After You". Chris Bohjalian's new release "The Flight Attendant" is one of our library network's hottest holds. The other hottest holds include the newest of favorite authors James Patterson, Lisa Scottoline, and Mary Higgins Clark, all whom regularly churn out popular reads.

If you enjoyed "The First Daughter" by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, put your request in now for "My Dear Hamilton".  To be released on April 3, it is the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton and her struggles as a revolutionary woman who "shaped an American legacy", written from the research of thousands of letters and original sources. 

Many patrons are raving about "Beneath a Scarlet Sky" by Mark Sullivan. This popular historical fiction is based on the true story of Pino Lella, a 17 year-old Italian boy who led Jews escaping the Nazis over the Alps, became a spy inside the German High Command, and fell in love with a woman who would haunt him the rest of his life". Patrons say that, although there are at times too many historic details, the story is enthralling.  

We have also had many patrons, including me, who have enjoyed the historical fiction  and New York Times bestseller by Lisa Wingate, "Before We Were Yours", based on the 1940s stories surrounding the children of Georgia Tann's Memphis, Tennessee Children's Home. 

Did you see Matt Jennings on Chronicle last week? His book "Homegrown" is one of our new non-fiction books. Finally, 'tis the season for gardening books to be checked out.  Even through there's still snow on the ground, there sure are a lot of books on vegetable gardening and landscaping coming off the shelves. If you find the gardening section a little sparse due to the number of motivated gardener's ready for  the spring thaw, a popular New England Gardening book, "The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Northeast", is now available for download via Hoopla (no holds necessary). 

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I hope this gave you some ideas for your next read. Based on repeated patron recommendations, I've put a 2017 bestseller I never read, "The One In A Million Boy" by Monica Wood, on the top of my list.