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Rocky Top Reads

Each Monday, we recommend new Rocky Top releases. These books are featured on the shelves at the front of our store; check them out here or in person to find your next read!

Featured Books

Get involved at Rocky Top R&R with our featured books!

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Author Talk on July 8, 4:00pm

Cover of Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune. Lovers sit on pier in front of lake.
A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After.

Meet Me at the Lake

Carley Fortune

Author Talk on July 15, 4:00pm

Cover of Conquer Change and Win by Ralph Masengill Jr. Man stands on top of mountain.
As author Ralph Masengill Jr. observes, death and taxes aren't the only things certain in life. Change is a given too. Understanding and managing change can help you succeed both at work and in your personal life. People who know how to deal with change are happier and less stressed out, and they make better decisions.

Conquer Change and Win

Ralph Masengill Jr.

July Book Club Meeting on July 31, 6:00pm

Cover of A Happy Place by Emily Henry. Men and women in bathing suits jump into water.
A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

A Happy Place

Emily Henry

New Releases: Fiction

Cover of The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt. Library check-out card.
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

Cover of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston. Drawings of man and woman stand on title.
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate...only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.

The Seven Year Slip

Ashley Poston

Cover of The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. An arrow through a realistic heart.
An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents—neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana.
Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch.

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty

New Releases: Non-Fiction

Cover of The Art Thief by Michael Finkel. Two classic art pieces: one of a bat and another of a young man.
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser's strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.

The Art Thief

Michael Finkel

Cover of The Parrot and the Igloo by David Lipsky. A drawing of a parrot wing.
The New York Times best-selling author explores how ”anti-science” became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its consequences.

The Parrot and the Igloo

David Lipsky

Cover of I Won't Shut Up by Ally Henny. A black woman raises her fist in front of a sun.
In this compelling book, Ally tells her own story of finding her voice, pushing back against oppression, and embracing her unique perspective as a loud Black woman. And she invites you to find your voice in a world that tries to silence you.

I Won't Shut Up

Ally Henny

Staff Picks

Recommended by Amber

Cover of Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren. Various books, journals, and plants.
After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren's touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words...how many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong?

Love and Other Words

Christina Lauren

Recommended by Jessie

Cover of The Secret History by Donna Tartt. A marble statue of a man.
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Recommended by Kelly

Cover of The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. Trees in a dark forest.
This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. All these things are true. And yet they are all lies...

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward

Recommended by Sean

Cover of A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. A sheep with a black star on it in a field.
A New York Times bestselling author delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons.

A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami

Recommended by Chloe

Cover of The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. A girl in deep water.
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman