Compiled by the UA Library Adult Services staff

Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese
Marion and Shiva are identical twin brothers who grow up to be physicians: one formally trained and practicing in New York, the other unschooled but brilliant in Ethiopia, their homeland. Verghese’s many-layered novel spins a compelling story about his characters in exotic Africa.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Written as a series of letters, this novel describes life on the island of Guernsey, England, during and after the German occupation of World War II. It's a surprisingly optimistic story reminding us of the pleasure and transformative power of books.

The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the People Who Raised Them
By Amy Dickinson
Amy realizes her marriage is in trouble when her husband comes to their marriage counseling session straight from a European trip with his girlfriend. Not sure where to go next, Amy and her young daughter return to her hometown of Freeville, N.Y. She not only rebuilds her life but eventually becomes the advice columnist who replaces Ann Landers.

A Rule Against Murder
By Louise Penny
Agatha Award winner Penny returns with Quebec Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, who is celebrating his wedding anniversary at the elegant Manoir Bellechasse in the Canadian wilderness. Also staying is one Madame Finney and her adult children, who must be the most dysfunctional family to appear in recent fiction. Murder ensues.

Testimony: A Novel
By Anita Shreve
The author of The Weight of Water and Body Surfing has written a powerful novel with all-too-familiar themes. At a prestigious private New England academy, a party includes student athletes, an underage girl and a possible rape. After a videotape is disclosed, ruinous results and testimony are revealed through the young men, women and parents of the people involved in the incident.

The Vagrants: A Novel
By Yiyun Li
Set in a fictional town about 700 miles from Beijing, this stunning debut novel weaves an unnerving, powerful and moving tale of the effects of the Democracy Wall movement in Communist China several years after the Cultural Revolution.

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