There are so many great books out there, that some tend to get overlooked. You often never hear about them, since they were never best sellers, but they’re still amazing books that are being missed out on. Here are some of HPL’s hidden gems; books that deserve more attention then they’re getting.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Call Number: Joyce
Harold receives a message from an old friend, who is dying. He leaves his wife and begins walking six hundred miles across the English countryside to see her, convinced that if he keeps walking she won’t die.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Call Number: Esquivel (In the Adult Fiction Section and the Classic Section)
This novel takes place in Mexico at the turn of the twentieth Century. Tita is desperately in love with Pedro, but is forbidden to marry him because she is the youngest daughter. Pedro instead marries her sister, so they must live together, but are unable to be with each other.
Too Bright to Hear Too loud to see by Juliann Garey
Call Number: Garey
Greyson is a successful Hollywood studio executive that has been hiding his bipolar disorder for twenty years. He leaves his wife and daughter to travel the world, letting his bipolar disorder hold sway.
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
Call Number: Jansma
The narrator of this book desperately wants to be a writer, and this dream takes him around the world, where he has many misadventures and is always haunted by his literary rival.
Tomorrow there will be Apricots by Jessica Soffer
Call Number: Soffer
Lorca decides to find the recipe for her mother’s favorite recipe in an attempt to not be sent to boarding school. Victoria, who is an Iraqi Jewish immigrant, starts teaching cooking lessons. Lorca signs up and they begin to suspect they are connected in more than one way.
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Call Number: Wilson
Buster and Annie Fang were raised by performance artists and forced to participate in their parents’ strange pieces as children. When their lives begin to fall apart they go back home, only to discover that their parents are planning one last performance that they must participate in.
Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup
Call Number: Swarup
Vivek Rai killed a bartender seven years ago in New Delhi. Then he is murdered during a party to celebrate his acquittal. There are six guests, all with a gun in their possession, who could be the killer.
Holyoke Library Readers Advisory 