Capote's account of the senseless murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, and following trial and hanging of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Quick, guilty pleasure read chronicling Liz Gilbert's journey to healing and self discovering while travelling for a year around Italy, India, and Indonesia.

Captain Kidd, a retired military man and pressman, travels the south reading the latest news from papers around the world. When asked to return 10-year-old Johanna, who has been a Kiowa captive for four years, to her kin in San Antonio, the two embark on a harrowing journey, with not even a language to share. A quick read, and a fairly predictable ending, but a sweet, well written novel.

Favorite novelist Barbara Kingsolver gives an interesting account of the first year her family decide to live their life self-sustainably off their Appalachian farm.

Set in the 70s, a Chinese-American teenager is missing. After being found at the bottom of the town lake, her family discovers her life and death may not have been what it seemed.

Beautifully written. Ren, a one-handed orphan left at a monastery as an infant is surprised when a man turns up claiming to be his long lost brother. Armed with a story of how Indians scalped their parents, he rescues Ren from his lonely life and takes him on the road, conning locals wherever they end up. Was he conning Ren as well?

From the author of The Girl on the Train, Into the Water follows a town with an unusual number of women finding death in The Drowning Pool and whether these incidences are coincidental or related.

Reimagines the Underground Railroad as a literal underground railroad tunnel. Follows Cora, a slave escaping a brutal plantation in Georgia, as she believes her mother did years before.