What Sonoma is reading

1. Warlight by Michael Ondaajte

From the Booker Prize winning author of The English Patient, in 1945 London, teenage brother and sister are left by their parents in the care of a mysterious guardian.

2. The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

POTUS #42 partners with the bestselling author in a mystery/thriller featuring the disappearance of a sitting U.S. President.

3. The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker

Debut novel of a young woman about to be married and embark on a promising New York career.  After a getaway to Sonoma she instead leaps at an unexpected job offer at a winery.

4. Cherry by Nico Walker

A young man experiences love, war and drug addiction, in this bleak, blunt and insightful debut novel.

5. His Favorites by Kate Walbert

Powerful novel of a woman’s painful recollections of her sexual relationship with her 34 year old high school English teacher, when she was 15.

1.  Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

A Chinese born American woman agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, unaware of his family’s incredible wealth, in this hilarious and smart satire of the super rich.  Now a major motion picture.

2.  Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Recent Pulitzer Prize winner, tells the story of a struggling novelist who travels the world in order to avoid his former partner’s upcoming wedding.

3.  Hope Never Dies:  An Obama Biden Mystery by Andrew Shaffer

In this entertaining and offbeat whodunit, the former V-POTUS, feeling adrift, stumbles upon a murder in his home state of Delaware and enlists his trusty former White House colleague, Barack Obama, to help him solve the mystery.

4.  Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The story of a quirky loner — part comic novel, part emotional thriller and part love story, in this funny and deadpan debut novel.

5.  Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Collection of stories whose small town characters were introduced in the author’s previous novel My Name is Lucy Barton.