NYPL librarians put together a dozen book bundles. These are books that go together somehow. The above linked article tells about them. Some of the topics are interesting and some are unusual. The books that I know of on the list are good choices. I am interested in most of them.
Books with an Intriguing Setting
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Snow Child: A Novel by Eowyn Ivey
Dark Brooding Love Interests
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
Duke of Desire by Elizabeth Hoyt
Level Up! Video Game Fiction!
Warcross by Marie Lu
Otherworld by Jason Segel
For the Win by Cory Doctorow
Women in STEM
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson; introduction by Linda Lear; afterword by Edward O. Wilson; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
True Crime
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell
Cozy Smalltown Murder Mystery Series
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder: a Hannah Swensen Mystery by Joanne Fluke
Still Life by Louise Penny
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Ladies of Mystery
Cocaine Blues by Phryne Fisher
A Cast-off Coven by Juliet Blackwell
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series by Alexander McCall Smith
Unreliable Narrators
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Twists and Turns
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Get Ready to Cry
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Feminist Science Fiction
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Dawn by Octavia Butler
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
Trilogies: The Best Things Come in 3s!
The Captive Prince Trilogy by C.S. Pacat
Annihilation (The Area X Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer
Oryx and Crake (The MaddAddam Trilogy) by Margaret Atwood
Non-Committal Short Stories
