It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for another book I’ve recently added to my TBR!
This week I received a text from Faith—reader, librarian, YA expert—asking if I’ve read Hollow Bones yet. She knows Jodi Picoult is THAT author for me.
Background: I took all the advanced level English classes in high school, but then I read My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult for “fun” because a friend loaned me the book. I didn’t know a book could hurt me like that, in the best possible way. When people ask me about the book that made me fall in love with reading, I point to that one. So the natural next step was to read 14 more of her books over the next 20 years!
Hollow Bones is Jodi Picoult’s 30th novel! She did a countdown to the release date by recording 30 second summaries of all her books.
Hollow Bones was released on September 15, 2026 and is 464 pages. The audiobook is 16 hours and narrated by: Rebecca Soler, MacLeod Andrews, and Julia Whelan.
From the publisher:
On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.
Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.
Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
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