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CADL Top 10 in 2019: adult reading

From CADL Staff

It's the time of year where every once in a while, it's nice to just curl up and read a good book at home.

These are stories ranging from how Michelle Obama became one of the most powerful women in the country, to a group of perfect strangers and yet another Janet Evanovich book. 

Here are the Capital Area District Libraries top picks books for adult reading from the past year:

1. "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Obama chronicles the experiences that shaped her life from the South Side of Chicago to Princeton and Harvard Law and on to the White House.

2. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens

A young hermit known as the “Marsh Girl” is pulled back into the world when a handsome young man is found dead in this heartbreaking coming-of-age story.

3. "Nine Perfect Strangers" by Liane Moriarty

Nine guests at a secluded spa begin to have doubts about what’s really happening and why they are there. 

4. "Educated: A Memoir" by Tara Westover

Westover’s harrowing memoir of growing up the child of religious survivalists in Idaho, but wanting an education.

5. "The Reckoning" by John Grisham

A Southern Gothic legal thriller in which Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son commits a shocking crime.

6. "Look Alive Twenty-Five" by Janet Evanovich

The last three managers at the Red River Deli have disappeared leaving only one shoe. Enter Stephanie Plum to fill the manager’s shoes and figure out what’s going on.

7. "Long Road to Mercy" by David Baldacci

The series starting thriller introducing FBI Agent Atlee Pine, the lone agent assigned to protecting the Grand Canyon.

8. "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris

A novel based on interviews with Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Ludwig Sokolov who used his position to try and help fellow prisoners.

9. "The Great Alone" by Kristin Hannah

Leni’s damaged former POW father moves the family to Alaska in search of a new beginning, but his increased instability leaves them unprepared for a long hard winter.

10. "The Woman in the Window" by A. J. Finn

An agoraphobic woman witnesses something she shouldn’t while spying on her neighbors. Soon to be a movie featuring Amy Adams.

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