A young girl is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to a leper colony, where she finds a new family and falls in love.

Told in mesmerizing prose, with charm and rhythm entirely its own, Dane Huckelbridge’s Castle of Water is more than just a reimagining of the classic castaway story. It is a stirring reflection on love’s restorative potential, as well as a poignant reminder that home—be it a flat in Paris, a New York apartment, or a desolate atoll a world away—is where the heart is.

A group of strangers with dark pasts are lured to an island where they’re killed off one by one, mirroring a sinister nursery rhyme.

On remote Yamacraw Island, a dedicated teacher spends a year helping families threatened by industrial pollution learn new ways to survive when their traditional fishing livelihood becomes unsafe.

Also fulfills: Read a memoir/autobiography.

It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies.

A psychological thriller about a man investigating a psychiatric hospital on a remote island, where nothing is as it seems.

After a seaplane crash, a thirty-year-old teacher and her teenage student become marooned on an uninhabited island, where survival and growing feelings complicate their situation. Film rights optioned by MGM.

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick: In 1974 Cyprus, a Greek Christian boy and Turkish Muslim girl meet secretly in a tavern with a fig tree. Decades later, their daughter in London seeks to understand her parents’ past.

Also fulfills: Read a magical realism novel.

In 1979 Ireland, an English painter and a French linguist visit a small island, disrupting local life while pursuing their own agendas amid nationwide violence. Longlisted for the Booker Prize.

A family of caretakers on a remote island face isolation, heartbreak, and secrets as they protect the world’s largest seed bank amidst rising sea levels and a mysterious newcomer.

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After dying in a hit-and-run, a novelist watches her family from the Beyond for one last summer, with three chances to influence events while protecting a secret from her past.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.