• After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian 

News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at night--news in general might be keeping Patrick up at night--but he's doing fine. He's sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights merrily sleeping his way through the rare book community. 

 

• So Old So Young by Grant Ginder

Over twenty years and five parties, six college friends reunite again and again, believing their bond will outlast the upheavals of adulthood. But as careers, marriages, parenthood, and loss reshape their lives, they are forced to confront how friendship can evolve, fracture, and sometimes endure in ways they never anticipated.

 

• Heart The Lover by Lily King

During her senior year of college, Jordan is drawn into an intense friendship and romantic triangle with two brilliant classmates, Sam and Yash, in a bond that shapes her ambitions and alters all three of their lives.

 

• My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Louisa, a young artist, becomes obsessed with uncovering the story behind three tiny figures hidden in a famous painting that unexpectedly ends up in her care.

 

• More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen

High school teacher Polly Goodman shares everything with her tight knit book club, from her marriage to struggles with IVF, until an ancestry test meant as a joke links her to a stranger and upends what she thought she knew about her family. 

 

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors.

 

• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (Series)

When the imaginative, outspoken orphan Anne Shirley arrives on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister, Marilla, are surprised to say the least. After all, the Cuthberts had requested that the orphanage send a boy to help with the work around their farm. 

 

• The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton (Series)

Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that's beside the point. As someone highly educated in the ruthless discipline of ornithology, Beth knows trouble when she sees it, and she is determined to keep her distance from Devon. 

 

• Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

As the wife of a stern German aristocrat and mother of young children, the irreverent narrator of this engrossing memoir escapes the societal norms and constrictions of late nineteenth-century patriarchy by becoming an enthusiastic amateur gardener.

 

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family may live in a ramshackle old English castle, but that’s about as romantic as her life gets.