Lists and Suggestions
List: Uplifting Lit
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Patrick, Phaedra.
"Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a...
The Lido
Page, Libby, author.
"A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject--and th...
The Authenticity Project
Pooley, Clare, author.
"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexp...
The Wangs vs. the World
Chang, Jade, 1975- author.
"A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it al...
The Keeper of Lost Things
Hogan, Ruth, 1961- author.
Andrew Peardew collects things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them. He ...
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
Balasubramanyam, Rajeev, 1974- author.
"P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point...
How to Find Love in a Bookshop
Henry, Veronica, author.
"Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come t...
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
Zevin, Gabrielle, author.
A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failin...
The Rosie Project
Simsion, Graeme C.
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, star...
The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
Hogan, Ruth, 1961- author.
"They say friends make life worth living... Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellio...
The Story of Arthur Truluv
Berg, Elizabeth, author.
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must...
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Hooper, Emma, author.
Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so tha...
Whispers Through a Megaphone
Elliott, Rachel (Psychotherapist), author.
35-year-old Miriam hasn't left her house in three years, and cannot raise her voice above a wh...
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
Cannon, Joanna (Psychiatrist), author.
England, 1976. Mrs. Creasy is missing and the Avenue is alive with whispers. The neighbors blame he...
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Joyce, Rachel.
Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old love in order to save her, meeting ...
Rabbit Cake
Hartnett, Annie, author.
Twelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happ...
Something Like Happy
Woods, Eva (Novelist), author.
"Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no th...