2023 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Released

The 2023 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List is here!

Since 2009, the goal of the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List is to highlight outstanding fiction that is “simply a pleasure to read.” To that end, a committee of librarians from the Texas Library Association annually selects 25 outstanding fiction titles.

In The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas, Beatriz moves into Haciendo San Isidro full of optimism for her life with her new husband, ignoring the rumors of his first wife’s sudden demise. But the home is not the refuge she is hoping for. Can a young priest, Padre Andres, help her fight off the malevolent spirits haunting her new home? Jane Austen fans will delight in The Murder of Mr. Wickham, where author Claudia Gray kills off the villain from Pride and Prejudice in a fun mystery featuring many of Austen’s most beloved characters and their children. In The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, Jess arrives in Paris to find her brother Ben missing. As she begins to investigate his disappearance, she learns intimate details of the other residents of the Paris apartment building where Ben lives – and everyone’s a suspect.

You’ll find these and many more wonderful titles on this year’s list.

• Black Cake: A Novel  by Charmaine Wilkerson (Ballantine Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
• Book Lovers by Emily Henry (Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
• Breathless by Amy McCulloch (Anchor Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
• The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel (Lake Union Publishing, 2022)
• Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
• City on Fire: A Novel by Don Winslow (William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2022)
• The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas (Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
•  Hester: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese (St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2022)
•  The High House:  A Novel by Jessie Greengrass (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2022)
•  Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
•  Last Summer on State Street:  A Novel by Toya Wolfe (William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2022)
•  The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021)
•  The Maid: A Novel by Nita Prose (Ballantine Books, Penguin Random House, 2022)
•  The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel by Jamie Ford (Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2022)
•  Mercury Pictures Presents: A Novel by Anthony Marra (Hogarth, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
•  The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray (Vintage Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
•  The Paris Apartment: A Novel by Lucy Foley (William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2022)
•  Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2022)
•  Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
•  This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
•  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022)
•  The Two Lives of Sara by Catherine Adel West (Park Row Books, 2022).
•  Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone (MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)
•  West with Giraffes:  A Novel by Lynda Rutledge (Lake Union Publishing, 2021)
•  What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire/Tom Doherty Associates, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, 2022)

The members of the 2022-2023 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Committee are:
Edward Kownslar (Chair), Esther Garcia (Vice Chair), Merri Lynne Alexander, Diane Bruxvoort, Heather Carter, Jackie Chetzron, Mindy Perez, Cynthia Peterson and Jennifer Shaw.