Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Alice Howland is proud of the life that she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she's a cognitive professor at Harvard and a world renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life and her relationship with her family and the word forever.

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book expert, has been offered the job of a lifetime; analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, rescued from the Serb shelling during the Bosnian War. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illustrated with images. When Hanna discovers a series of tiny artifacts, in its ancient binding, an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair, she begins to unlock the book's mysteries ushering in its exquisite and atmospheric past, from its salvation to its creation through centuries of exile and war.

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

In the year 1954, U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, came to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island despite having been kept under constance surveilance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation, and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing in Asheville Hospital is remotely what it seems.

Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

PARIS, July 1942- Sarah, a ten year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard, their secret hiding place, and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released.

SIXTY YEARS LATER- Sarah's story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah, and to questions about her own romantic future.