A welcome infusion of new titles this week! A frontier survival story, a steamy romance, a thriller, and a mother-daughter story join the list.

#1 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed Scandalous Behavior by Stuart Woods, more fiction that involves a brush with cults and communes:

Amity & Sorrow by Peggy Riley

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Arcadia by Lauren Groff

 

 

 

#2 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, more stories of mothers and daughters:

The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls

Runaway by Alice Munro

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

 

 

 

#3 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Revenant by Michael Punke, more frontier survival stories:

Many a River by Elmer Kelton

True Grit by Charles Portis

As Far as the Eye Can See by Robert Bausch

 

 

 

#4 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Score by Elle Kennedy, more steamy series:

If You Stay by Courtney Cole

Leaving Amarillo by Caisey Quinn

Wait for You by J. Lynn

 

#5 Recommendations for readers who enjoyed The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, more suspense novels told from multiple perspectives:

And Then There Was One by Patricia Gussin

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Son by Jo Nesbø

 

 

 

Staff picks are chosen by NYPL staff members and are not intended to​ be comprehensive lists. We'd love to hear your ​picks! Tell us what you'd recommend: Leave a comment or email us.