Recommended Reads

Each Monday, we recommend new Rocky Top releases at our Lenoir City bookstore. 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!

Explore Our Lenoir City Bookstore

We include 4 categories of books on this page and on our front display shelf:

Featured Books
- Each month, we release new featured books based on events happening in our Lenoir City bookstore.
New Releases: Fiction
New Releases: Non-Fiction
Staff Picks
- These books are recommended by each staff member at Rocky Top Roasts and Reads.

Featured Books

Author Talk on July 8, 4:00pm

Meet Me at the 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

Conquer Change and Win

As author Ralph Masengill Jr. observes, death and taxes aren't the only things certain in life. Change is a given too.

Conquer Change and Win

Ralph Masengill Jr.

July Book Club on July 31, 6:00pm

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

The Librarianist

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

The Seven Year Slip

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

The Rabbit Hutch

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

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

The Parrot and the Igloo

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

I Won't Shut Up

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
Kelly

The Last House on Needless Street

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 Chloe

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

Recommended by
Landon

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. Only Dorian's picture bears the traces of his decadence.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

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