At She Reads we are always excited to have another opportunity to celebrate a new Jodi Picoult release. This September, readers will get to dig into her newest novel, Hollow Bones. While you wait, here’s a list of all of our favorite books from the bestselling author.

Hollow Bones 

Molly Fitzgerald has a healthy but apparent fear of disasters. When she was just two months old, her mom attended a meeting in the World Trade Center on September 11th and never made it home. Now as an adult, Molly is in charge of the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, helping plan for storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. Her husband, Jesse, has experienced his own traumatic past allowing the couple to build a relationship to weather the storms of life. They can’t plan for everything though so an unexpected event threatens their marriage and their future.

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By Any Other Name

Melina Green, a young budding playwright, has just finished her most recent work inspired by her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. The probability of seeing it performed in a theater is unfortunately low because the theater world does not offer equal opportunities for women. While Melina struggles to figure out her next move, a friend submits her play to a festival under a male pseudonym. Her story follows Emilia Bassano, a young ward of English aristocrats, who is forced to become a mistress to Lord Chamberlain, an overseer of theater productions in England. Using her immense education in languages, history, and writing, Emilia secretly plans to bring her play to the stage by paying an actor to front her work. That actor is none other than William Shakespeare.  

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My Sister’s Keeper

By the age of thirteen, Anna has undergone countless surgeries and medical procedures. The thing is, she is not sick. All of it has been to help her older sister, Kate,  fight leukemia. This was the life that their parents planned for Anna because she was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate. She has never challenged any of the transfusions, shots, or procedures to help her sister until now. Anna wants her life to be separate from her sister, for there to be a distinction between the two of them, so she makes a decision that will tear her family apart and potentially harm Kate in ways she didn’t imagine.  

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Mad Honey

Olivia McAfee is starting over. After her husband revealed a darker side, she has moved her and their son, Asher, back to her sleepy hometown in New Hampshire. They are living in the house that Olivia grew up in and she has taken over her father’s. Lily Campanello and her mom are also starting over, something they are familiar with. They have relocated to Adams where Lily meets Asher at the local high school and they start to fall for each other. Everything changes when Olivia gets the call that Lily is dead, and that Asher is going to be questioned by the police. Olivia believes that her son is innocent until she starts to question the bits of his dad’s temper that flash through Asher. As the police build their case against him, Olivia realizes that Asher has hidden more than he has ever opened up to her about. 

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Wish You Were Here

Diane O’Toole has her life perfectly planned out. She’ll be a wife and a mom by the time she’s 35, all while rising in her art auction career. In fact, her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, will be fulfilling step one by proposing on their upcoming Galapagos trip. The day before their trip, a virus rips through their city meaning that Finn has to go to work. He assures her that she should still go on their nonrefundable trip. Diane’s trip to the islands is less than ideal. Her luggage is lost, she has little to no Wifi, and the hotel is shut down to the pandemic. The whole island is quarantined and Diane will be stuck here until the borders reopen. Slowly, she ventures out of her comfort zone, befriending a local family. This island is where Darwin studied and created his theories of evolution. As a result, Diane finds that she is studying herself and her life, wondering if by the time she makes it home will she have evolved into a different person. 

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Small Great Things

Ruth Jefferson is a Connecticut labor and delivery nurse with over twenty years of experience. Her career and her life will be rocked by a shift one day. She is assigned to a couple who are white supremacists who don’t want Ruth, who is black, to ever touch their baby. When the baby goes into cardiac arrest in the nursery, she hesitates before beginning CPR. This results in Ruth being charged with a serious crime. A white public defender, Kennedy McQuarrie, takes Ruth’s case and gives her advice that she doesn’t know how to handle–don’t mention race in the courtroom. As Ruth struggles with this advice, she is trying to keep her teenage son’s life as normal as possible. As the case progresses, Ruth and Kennedy begin to trust each other in ways that defies their upbringings and challenges the ideas that society ingrains. 

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The Book of Two Ways

When Dawn Edelstein is on a plane about to crash she is thinking of Wyatt Armstrong, a man that is not her husband and that she hasn’t seen in fifteen years. After miraculously surviving the crash, Dawn is questioning her life in Boston with her husband Brian, their daughter, and her career as a death doula helping people come to terms with their eventual passing. Wyatt is in Egypt working as an archaeologist, which Dawn once studied but abandoned. The airline ensures that each passenger sees a doctor and then offers them transportation to wherever they want to go. The choice she should make is heading straight home to Boston, but she is thinking about flying to Egypt and to Wyatt. The two possibilities and two futures unfold side by side exploring how each decision would change Dawn’s life. 

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Nineteen Minutes

In Sterling, a normal New Hampshire town, nothing ever happens. That is until one day, a school shooting rocks the community. Josie Cormier, daughter of the judge overseeing the case, should be the best eyewitness but she is struggling to remember what unfolded right in front of her. As the trial develops, rifts between the high school and adult communities begin to form ruining friendships and families. 

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The Storyteller

Sage Singer has struck up an unlikely friendship. She is in a grief support group after her mother’s death, and another member, an elderly gentleman, has begun to stop by the bakery where Sage works. Everything changes when the elderly gentleman, Josef, confesses a dark, ghastly secret that he has kept buried. He then asks Sage for an astronomical favor. If she says yes, she will face major consequences. With this Sage questions everything she knows about Josef and the assumptions she’s made about other people in her life. 

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A Spark of Light

A women’s reproductive health clinic called the Center is taken hostage by a desperate and deeply upset gunman. Police rush to the scene, including Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, to try and find a solution that keeps everyone safe. He is horrified to find out from a text that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the Center. Wren is luckily not alone. She is with a nurse who hides her panic to save a woman that’s been hurt, a doctor who uses his faith as fuel for his work, a pro-life protester pretending to be a patient, a young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy, and the gunman who will ensure that he is heard. 

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