Readers’ Choice: The Top 10 Most Shelved Books in February

You won’t be getting much sleep after reading this twisty psychological thriller in the vein of Serial and Ruth Ware's IN A DARK, DARK WOOD. A reporter’s wildly popular podcast reopens a murder case, threatening to expose the secrets the victim’s daughter has hidden beneath the surface of her new life. Reunited with her estranged twin sister, and once again swept up in the lies and terrors of her past, Josie Burhman finds herself at the center of a national obsession.

After the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, Peter Byerly relocates from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to outrun his grief and rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, he discovers a Victorian watercolor of a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Amanda. THE BOOKMAN’S TALE is a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalizing mysteries.

Full of twists and turns, EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront . . . and she inches closer and closer to her death.

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A family reunites after the death of its patriarch just as a hurricane tears through town in Kris D’Agostino’s second novel, THE ANTIQUES. D’Agostino has a gift for making family drama compelling on the page, and the Westfalls are no strangers to dysfunction. Complete with an irresistible plot and deeply flawed, affectionately rendered characters, THE ANTIQUES is a laugh-out-loud funny send-up of modern family life.

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Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and deeply moving, this exquisite memoir by a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 37 is a gentle reminder how to live and love every day.

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Accomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato has always been fascinated by medieval Siena—but she never imagined she could literally find herself there. A perfect read for long winter nights, THE SCRIBE OF SIENA is an unexpected, dangerous love story that fans of OUTLANDER and THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE will devour.

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Nina is an excellent librarian and literary matchmaker. Or she was before she lost her job. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van, transforms it into a bookmobile, and drives it from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing one life after another with the power of storytelling. Nina discovers there’s plenty of adventure, magic, and soul in a place that’s beginning to feel like home . . . a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Smart, warm, uplifting, this is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine who realizes the only way to survive is to open your heart.

This quirky, often hilarious novel offers romantic comedy and critique of contemporary American society. Veblen and her fiancé, Paul, must come to terms with their complicated relationships with their families, Veblen’s affinity for a particularly expressive squirrel who takes residence in her attic, and their own differing hopes for the future.