Booked for the year
If reading more is going to be your New Year’s
resolution, stock up your library with these best-selling works of fiction
Ready Player One
byErnest Cline
In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only
time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual
utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles
hidden within this world’s digital confines — puzzles that are based on their
creator’s obsession with the pop culture. But when Wade stumbles upon the first
clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate
prize. The race is on, and if Wade’s going to survive, he’ll have to win—and
confront the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
Little Fires Everywhere
byCeleste Ng
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of
Cleveland, everything is planned and no one embodies this spirit more than
Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia
Warren — an enigmatic artist and single mother — who arrives in this idyllic
bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.
Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are
drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past
and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully
ordered community.
The Great Alone
byKristin Hannah
Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a
family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, is also a
story of young and enduring love. Cora Allbright and her husband Ernt, a
recently returned Vietnam veteran scarred by the war, uproot their 13-year-old
daughter Leni to start a new life in Alaska. Utterly unprepared for the weather
and the isolation, but welcomed by the closeknit community, they fight to build
a home in this harsh, beautiful wilderness.
The President is Missing
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
The President Is Missing confronts
a threat so huge that it jeopardises not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall
Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are
whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the
President himself becomes a suspect, and then he disappears from public view.
Set over the course of three days, the book sheds a stunning light upon the
inner workings and vulnerabilities of our nation. Filled with information that
only a former Commander-in-Chief could know, this is the most authentic,
terrifying novel to come along in many years.
Before We Were Yours
byLisa Wingate
Based on one of America’s most notorious reallife
scandals — in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption
organisation, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the
country — Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale
reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the
heart never forgets where we belong.
The Outsider
byStephen King
An 11-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a
town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint
City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach,
English teacher, husband, and father of two girls.
Detective Ralph Anderson orders a quick and very
public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney
soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case
seems iron-clad. As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to
emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension
and almost unbearable suspense.
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