Seabrookers Are Reading

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
by Marty Makary, MD
Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem. The path to medical mishaps can be absurd, entertaining, and jaw-dropping- “the truth is essential to our health.” (2024; Nonfiction)

Presumed Guilty
by Scott Turow
Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that’s taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea’s young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn’t return soon, he will be sent back to jail. Faced with few choices and even fewer hopes, Bea begs Rusty to return to court one last time, to defend her son. (2025; Fiction)

The Human Scale
by Lawrence Wright
FBI agent Tony Malik travels to Gaza for a family wedding but becomes entangled in a complex murder investigation with an Israeli officer, navigating deeply rooted tensions, personal discoveries, and a volatile political landscape as they work together to uncover the truth amidst corruption and violence. (2025; Fiction)

Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
Gail Baines is long divorced from her husband, Max, and not especially close to her grown daughter, Debbie. Today is the day before Debbie’s wedding. To start, Gail loses her job–or quits, depending who you ask. Then, Max arrives unannounced on Gail’s doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay and without even a suit in which to walk their daughter down the aisle. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares a secret she has just learned about her husband-to-be. It not only throws the wedding itself into question but also sends Gail back into her past. (2025; Fiction)

Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult
Diana O’Toole has a plan: be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the NYC suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She just knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galapagos. Then a virus that felt worlds away appears in the city, and Finn has to stay at the hospital. Since the trip is nonrefundable, Diana goes, reluctantly. Her luggage is lost, and the hotel they’d booked is shut down due to the pandemic. With the whole island under quarantine, she carves out a connection with a local family, and begins to examine her relationships, her choices, and herself. (2021; Fiction)

The Great Divide: A Tale of Mutiny and Murder
by Cristina Henriquez
Henriquez’s novel is about the construction of the Panama Canal following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves. (2024; Fiction)

The Wager
by David Grann
This is a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. (2023; Nonfiction)

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by Hampton Sides
Sides provides an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. On July 12, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? (2024; Nonfiction)

Someone Like Us
by Dinaw Mengestu
After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah– a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. (2024; Fiction)

Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
This is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space– not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. (2023; Fiction)

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
by Sara B. Franklin
An intimate biography of legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century– including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath. (2024; Nonfiction)