By Chang-rae Lee

A visit from his daughter and her fiancé from Oregon prompts Jerry Battle to reassess his life, his family relationships, his professional success, and his disengagement from those around him, as he reflects on his professional success and his love of flying solo, in a novel set in an upper-middle-class suburban Long Island community.

By Mark Mills

It is 1947 and GI Conrad Labarde has returned to his east end Long Island home. One day he finds the body of a beautiful young millionairess tangled in his fishing nets.  Initially appearing as a drowning, the autopsy raises the possibility of murder, with Lebarde as a main suspect.  Taut and engrossing.

By Russell Andrews

The brutal murder of a young female journalist draws Justin Westwood, a small-town Long Island cop, into a dangerous investigation into a conspiracy that forces him into a dangerous confrontation with his fellow cops, the FBI, and an oddball team of professional killers.

By Alice McDermott

The bittersweet, lovable, human story of an Irish-Catholic family on Long Island as seen through the eyes of two sisters and a brother.

By Jamie Brenner
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Returning with her mother to her parents’ North Fork Long Island winery, college-age Sadie discovers that her Grandma Vivian once ran a “trashy” book club and decides to reinstate it as a way to reconnect the family.

By Jodi Della Femina

“Nobody knows the Hamptons like Jodi Della Femina, who captures the inside world of love, society, and scandal in this delicious summer page-turner (From the Publisher).”

By Alice McDermott

A teenage girl, raised on the east end of Long Island among the country estates of the rich, reflects on her understanding of human nature during a seemingly idyllic summer spent with her eight-year-old cousin Daisy.

By Susan Isaacs
Series Judith Singer Mysteries

Long Island housewife Judith Singer takes it upon herself to investigate the murder of a local periodontist and picture–taking lothario and discovers an attractive homicide lieutenant and her own potential as a woman.

By Laura Dave

Hosting a divorce party on what would have been their thirty-fifth anniversary, amicably separated spouses Gwyn and Thomas Huntington unexpectedly toast their son's engagement to a young woman who inadvertently discovers unsettling secrets about the man she is to marry.

By Jason Allen

A Hamptons poolside accident that ends the life of a billionaire CEO's illicit lover is complicated by a lavish weekend vacation and a thrill–seeking hired boy who breaks in and witnesses everything in secret.

By Nelson DeMille
Series John Sutter Novels

Now living in close proximity to his ex-wife Susan, John Sutter is targeted by her dead lover's mafia son Anthony, who seeks revenge against his father's murderer and attempts to lure John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa crime family.

By Cristina Alger

Investigating a pair of grisly murders on Long Island, FBI agent Nell Flynn is horrified to discover that the primary suspect is her own recently deceased father, a former homicide detective.

By Nelson DeMille
Series John Sutter Novels
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“Along the wealthy North Shore of New York’s Long Island, the once-affluent Wall Street attorney John Sutter meets Mafia kingpin Frank Bellarosa and finds himself drawn into a seductive world of money and violence (From the Publisher).”

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Recommended By Josephine Amoia, Children's Librarian
With Jean Simpson, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, September 26, 2017. 1:30 PM.

A classic novel portrays the Jazz Age and all its decadence and excess as it follows the life of Jay Gatsby, a newly rich man obsessed with money, power, and glamour.

Became the movie: The Great Gatsby.

By E. G. Scott
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Managing a painful career setback with the help of an online support group and a secret boyfriend who goes mysteriously missing, a neuroscientist is declared a person of interest when she is asked to identify the body of a stranger.

By June Gervais
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

An artistic teen growing up in a conventional Long Island town in 1985 convinces her older brother to give her a job in his tattoo parlor where she learns to embrace her quirkiness in her art and her life.

By Chris Knopf
Series Sam Acquillo Mysteries

Middle-aged corporate dropout, Sam Acquillo, living in his dead parents’ ramshackle cottage in the Hamptons, has abandoned his friends, family and a big-time career to sit on his porch, drink vodka and stare at the Little Peconic Bay. When the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub, Sam seems to be the only one who wonders why.

By Rumaan Alam
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

Sheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut–off property is actually safe.

By Walt Whitman

Presents Whitman's classic collection celebrating himself and the American experience.

By Kaylie Jones (ed.)

Presents a collection of sinister stories each set in a distinct Long Island location, featuring contributions by such noted mystery authors as Charles Salzberg, Sarah Weinman, and Steven Wishnia.

By Sherri Rifkin
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Seeking a cure for her post-breakup depression, TV producer Tori Miller embarks on a course of self-improvement with the help of a makeover on a reality TV show and joins seven complete strangers in a rented Hamptons summer house, which leads to a glamorous new social life, complex romantic situations, and a growing inability to determine what is really important in life (From the Publisher).”

By Amy Bloom
Recommended By Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian

Forging a life together after being abandoned by their parents, half-sisters Eva and Iris share decades in and out of the spotlight in golden-era Hollywood and mid-20th-century Long Island.

By Nicola Harrison
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Distancing herself from her unfaithful spouse and her fellow society wives at seaside Montauk Manor, Bea Bordeaux is drawn by the village's natural beauty and community spirit before falling for a man who is nothing like her husband.

By Nelson DeMille
Series John Corey Novels
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

Five years after the crash of Flight 800, anti-terrorist task force members John Corey and Kate Mayfield pursue suspicions that the truth about the crash has been covered up at the highest levels of government and examine a private video tape that inadvertently caught the airliner's final moments.

By Christopher Bollen

A series of mysterious deaths in a small Long Island town is investigated by a young loner who would identify the culprit before his own time runs out.

By Ellen Meister
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Hiding the truth about her ability to cross into alternate realities where she has made different life decisions, a married and pregnant Quinn Braverman learns that her unborn child will be disabled and glimpses into a parallel life where she is married to someone else and childless.

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey

When Tom and Judy Gordon are found murdered in their Long Island home, NYPD detective John Corey uncovers a chilling link between the couple’s deaths and the theft and illegal sale of genetically altered viruses, and races against time to stop the possible release of a deadly plague.

By Alice Hoffman

During the steamy summer of 1959, a sleepy Long Island suburban community is transformed by the arrival of Nora Silk, an attractive young divorcee, and her two young sons.

By Jeffrey Ford

In the wake of a classmate's disappearance, a sixth grader and his older brother observe strange events in 1960s Long Island, including the appearance of a man in a large white car and the deteriorating mental state of the school librarian.

By Hilma Wolitzer
Recommended By Ann Competello, Library Clerk

“… a stirring tale about friendship, romance, inspiration, longing, and, especially, the love of good books. Summer Reading offers a seductive glimpse into the intersecting lives of three very different women… Stunningly evocative and richly imagined, Summer Reading explores the meaning and consequences of living an authentic life (From the Publisher).”

By Jessica Goodman
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.

By Lisa Gabriele
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Moving into the opulent estate of her new fiancé, Max Winter, after a whirlwind romance, a young woman navigates the ire of his manipulative teen daughter and her future husband's cutthroat political ambitions.