Author Readalike: Nicholas Sparks

If you enjoy Nicholas Sparks, check out some of these books!

Richard Paul Evans
Grace
The Gift
The Last Promise
A Perfect Day

Jodi Picoult
Songs of the Humpback Whale
Mercy

Cecelia Ahern
PS I Love You

Kristin Hannah
Winter Garden
On Mystic Lake

James Patterson
Suzanne’s Diaries for Nicholas
Sam’s Letters to Jennifer

Anita Shreve
A Wedding in December

Mitch Albom
For One More Day

Nicholas Evans
The Smoke Jumper

Jan Karon
Mitford series

Phillip Gulley
Harmony series

Elizabeth Berg
The Pull of the Moon

Karen Kingsbury
One Tuesday Morning

Barbara Delinsky
Coast Road
Lake News

Luanne Rice
Firefly Beach

Emily Grayson
The Gazebo

October Book Club Books

The GPL book clubs are reading the following books for October:

Young Adult Book Club
Saturday, October 23 at 12:00 pm
The View From Saturday by E.L Konigsburg

Afternoon Book Club
Thursday, October 21 at 2:00 pm
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

Evening Book Club
Wednesday, October 20 at 6:45 pm
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

New members always welcome!

Author Read-Alike: Mary Higgins Clark

If you enjoy Mary Higgins Clark, check out some of these authors and books!

Patricia Cornwell
  Kay Scarpetta series

Marjorie Dorner
  Blood Kin
  Family Closets
  Nightmare

Joy Fielding
  Still Life
  Missing Pieces

Iris Johansen
  Eve Duncan series

Nora Roberts
  Key series (Key of Light, Key  
    Of Valor, Key of Knowledge)

Elizabeth Peters
  Amelia Peabody series

Tami Hoag
  Guilty as Sin
  Dark Paradise
  Deeper than the Dead

Karen Robards
  Pursuit
  Shattered

Catherine Coulter
  The Target
  FBI series

Lisa Gardner
  Detective D.D. Warren series
  The Other Daughter
  The Third Victim

Martha Grimes
  Richard Jury series

Kay Hooper
  Bishop/ Special Crimes Unit
     series  

Linda Howard
  Burn
  Ice
  Shades of Twilight

Elizabeth Lowell
  The Wrong Hostage
  Moving Target

Jonathan Kellerman
  Alex Delaware series

Barbara Vine
  The Blood Doctor
  The Minotaur

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

Mary Beth Latham has a seemingly perfect life and family. She runs her own landscaping business and is a loving wife to Glen, and doting mother to three teenage children. Ruby is her eldest, a poet in her senior year, preparing to go off to college. Alex and Max are her twin boys, very different from each other but both special in their own ways.

Mary Beth is comfortable with the ordinariness of her life but she soon realizes that her son, Max, is depressed and while focusing her attention on him, she is blindsided by an unspeakable act of violence that tears her family apart. Slowly, she attempts to rebuild her life, a life where nothing will ever be the same.

A beautifully written, character-centered novel about the strength and capability of a woman facing her ultimate fear. Suggested for readers that are drawn to literary fiction with family overcoming tragedy as its central theme. Fans of Jodi Picoult and Chris Bohjalian may also enjoy this novel.