Enjoyed NYPL's Top Checkouts of 2022? Here Are Similar Titles to Explore

by Matt Haig

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

Accessible: BR | DB | BK 

World Languages: 中文 | Deutsch | 한국어

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.

by Donna Freitas

An emotional novel about motherhood—about a woman who has never thought she wanted to become a mother, and how she does or does not decide to go ahead and have a child.

by Chloe Benjamin

It’s 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades.

by Bonnie Garmus

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

by Martha Batalha

The tale of two sisters who, surrounded by a cast of unforgettable characters, assert their independence and courageously carve a path of their own in 1940s Rio de Janeiro.

by Marie Benedict

This book tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, who, despite an environment of harassment and bullying in the late 1940s and 1950s, worked in a stringent, scientific manner and became one of the first scientists to map the structure of DNA.

by Fannie Flagg

Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.

by Amor Towles

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

Accessible: DB | BK

 by Louis Edwards

When Ramadan Ramsey, the son of a ninth-generation New Orleans African American and a Syrian refugee, loses his beloved grandmother, he sets off to find the father he has never known—an adventure-filled journey that takes him from NOLA to Egypt, Istanbul, and finally Syria.

 by William Kent Kreuger

Fleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans, both Native and white, share a life-changing journey marked by struggling farmers, faith healers, and lost souls.

by David Whitehouse

When his best friend and protector Sunny is injured in a freak accident, Bobby Nusku, who is the target of schoolyard bullies and his abusive father, embarks on a wild adventure across England in a 16-wheel bookmobile with a lonely divorcee, her disabled daughter, and a kindhearted ex-soldier.

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

Accessible: DB | BK | LGPT

World Languages: Español

 by Meg Wolitzer

Thirty years after their parents wrote a sex guide for couples during the 1970s sexual revolution, four siblings explore the ways in which their parents' sexuality has affected their lives and argue over whether or not to reissue the book.

by María Amparo Escandón

This novel follows the Los Angeles-based Alvardo family as they take critical looks at their internal and external relationships while struggling with a fierce local drought, impending evacuations, secrets, deception, betrayal, and making some tough decisions.

by Elissa R. Sloan

Shocked by the suicide of a member of their idolized band, three surviving former bandmates reexamine the secrets they shared throughout their early years and meteoric rise to fame.

by Emily Henry

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

Accessible: BR | DB | BK

by Angie Hockman

Competing for the same promotion, a workaholic marketing manager and her email nemesis discover their mutual attraction when they meet for the first time while researching their company’s cruise line in the Galápagos Islands.

by Beth O'Leary

Forced to take a road trip together to their friend’s wedding in Scotland, former lovers Dylan and Addie are forced to confront the choices they made that tore them apart—and ask themselves whether that final decision was the right one after all.

by Andrew Sean Greer

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.

by Emma Straub

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

Accessible: BR | DB | BK

 by Jo Walton

Ninety-year-old Patricia Cowan has two sets of memories, not to mention two different families who come to visit her in the nursing home (where her room sometimes has navy blue curtains, sometimes pale green blinds). Although her caregivers believe that she suffers from dementia, Patricia suspects that her life decisions may, in fact, have changed history and created two distinct, branching timelines.

by Sarah Adlakha

When 39-year-old psychiatrist, wife, and mother Maria Forssmann wakes up in her 17-year-old body, it is just weeks before the tragedy that led her to meet her future husband. She desperately tries to get back to her home and life in the present, but she wonders if she can change time and still keep what it’s given her.

by Frances Spufford

In this novel, Spufford imagines the possible lives of 5 children who lost their lives in an explosion during the London Blitz of 1944.

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

Accessible: BR | DB | BK 

World Languages: Español

by Dawnie Walton

Accepting a contract from a fledgling record company, a talented music artist in early 1970s New York  (afropunk before the term existed), endures racist responses to her activism, before a reunion interview decades later reveals explosive secrets.

by Nghi Vo

Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, Chinese American actress Luli Wei is desperate to become a star. But in her world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not the ones on screen. The studios want to own everything from her face to her name to the women she loves, and they run on a system of bargains made in blood and ancient magic, powered by the endless sacrifice of unlucky starlets like her. And the steep price for success may turn her into something she despises.

by Janice Steinberg

A  sweeping, multi-generational story about twin sisters, the brainy one, and the one with Hollywood aspirations who disappears without a trace at the age of 18 in 1939. It is set in the historically Jewish neighborhood of Boyle Heights, California, and modern-day Los Angeles.

by Emily Henry

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

Accessible: BR | DB | BK | LGPT

by Alison Cochrun

In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy, an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly more with his male producer than with any of the female contestants on the show.

by Mia Sosa

The top wedding coordinator in Washington, D.C., Carolina Santos, is offered an opportunity of a lifetime, but there is just one hitch—she has to collaborate with the best man from her own failed nuptials—and decides to dish out a little payback of her own until the unexpected happens.

by Jessica Martin

Hoping to finish her novel over the summer in Bard’s Rest, writer Miranda Barnes returns home and gets swept up in her mother’s planned production of Twelfth Night and avoiding the guy who broke her heart on prom night.

by Colleen Hoover

Request Book | Request E-Book 

Accessible: BR | DB | BK

World Languages: Español | Deutsch | Português

by Wanda M. Morris

The lone Black female corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta discovers her white boss (and lover) dead with a gunshot wound to his head, and must deal with office suspicions, gossip, and police questioning when she is promoted as his successor.

by Alice Feeney

When Amelia wins a free weekend getaway to a remote venue in the Scottish Highlands, she views this as the perfect opportunity to reconnect with her husband Adam, but the trip has the opposite effect as she no longer recognizes the person she married.

by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

A psychologically charged tale of suspense follows the unexpected twists that shape a divorce and second marriage that are anything but what they seem.

by Colleen Hoover

Request Book | Request E-Book | Request Audiobook

Accessible: DB | BK

by Lisa Gardner

Investigating the cold-case disappearance of a Haitian teen in a gritty Boston neighborhood, Frankie Elkin navigates resident and police resistance as well as the challenges of her own sobriety before risking her life to uncover the truth.

by Bill Roorbach

While at a reform camp in Montana, 16-year-old privileged white girl Cindra Zoeller escapes into the wilderness with Turtle, an employee of the camp whose identity and origin is ambiguous. They must both suffer the consequences of their naïve fantasy of a future together—and circumstances shaped by skin color.

by Liane Moriarty

Moriarty combines domestic realism and noirish mystery in this story about a family of tennis stars. When a mysterious stranger shows up at their door, and months later the matriarch goes missing, her adult children debate whether or not to report it because the most obvious suspect is their father.