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VPL - Books Just For You - Award-winners, Books to Inspire, & Popular New Books

This personalized list was created by VPL's reading experts for a reader who requested recommendations of award-winning, inspiring, and popular new books in print, ebook, and eaudiobook formats.

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  • "A woman confronts the surprising results of an ancestry test and begins to question the meaning of family and friendship in this wise, tender novel teeming with life" -- Publisher
    eBook, 2026Random House, Incorporated, 2026.
  • "Culpability explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones and other nonhuman forces in ways that are thrilling, challenging and unimaginably provocative. " -- Oprah's Book Club
    eBook, 2025Spiegel & Grau, 2025.
  • "Wilson is positively masterful at quirky family dramas and many of the ingredients that have made his stories so popular are present here: an eclectic cast, a dash of absurdity, and complicated but very real family dynamics." -- Kirkus
    eBook, 2025HarperCollins Publishers Incorporated, 2025.
  • "With This is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman, returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2026Books on Tape, 2026.
  • "Sweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness." -- Publisher
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025Books on Tape, 2025.
  • Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. They're both competing to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years: Tragic heiress, former…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2025Books on Tape, 2025.
  • A co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and winner of the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. "A boy born to a single, teenage mother grows up tough in Appalachia, demonstrating a remarkable capacity for surviving foster care, child labor,…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2022HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2022.
  • Theo Byrne, an astrobiologist who speculates about alien life, is a single parent to his nine-year-old son Robin, a brilliant child with behavior issues. Robin undergoes experimental neurofeedback treatment, wherein he learns to model his emotions…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021Books on Tape, 2021.
  • "Malibu catches fire. It is simply what Malibu does from time to time," reads the opening line of this novel about fame, family, and secrets. The narrative alternates between events occurring on August 27, 1983 in Malibu California, and the history…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021Books on Tape, 2021.
  • In this coming-of-age story, 14-year-old Mary Jane takes a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a psychiatrist. Staying with the family for the summer is a rock star (and his celebrity wife) who is being treated for drug and alcohol addiction.…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Custom House, [2021]
  • Winner of the Bailey Women’s Prize for Fiction, this novel is a ‘pitch-black’ comedy. It begins with a number of horrific incidents happening in quick succession, then moves through a series of strange episodic adventures. In the end, “dark satire…
    Book, 2012New York : Viking, 2012.
  • Over the course of a single day in the small town of Juliet, Saskatchewan, secrets are revealed, marriages tested and a life ended. Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award 2010.
    Book, 2010Toronto : HarperCollins, c2010.