15 Best Jodi Picoult Books 

Jodi Picoult New York Times Bestseller List

Following are some bestseller books from New York Times:

The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, 

Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care,Change of Heart, and My Sister’s Keeper.

Jodi Picoult also published books with her daughter Samantha van Leer, Between the Lines and Off the Page which is the only sequel story.

List of the 15 Best Jodi Picoult Books 

Brief intro about Jodi Picoult’s writing style and her recurring characters.

The story revolves around Sterling, New Hemisphere which is a quiet place where hardly anything happens but a violence has disturbed the environment. 

Town now seeks justice but also comply with the fact they themselves played a part in the tragedy. 

As the case unfolds, she can now clearly see the previously blurred line between high school and the adult community which leads to destruction of friendship and families.

This book raises questions regarding one’s own society, one’s own child and much more and especially does anyone really have the right to judge anyone.

Family is such a bond that we do everything to maintain the bond. We get so lost sometimes when a critical situation and a family member needs our help and we try to do everything possible by ourselves. To take care of other family members, we sometimes forget to take care of ourselves which is done by many adults so how can Anna see this happening?

Unlike grown people, Anna hasn’t seen life and her childhood is mostly filled with hospital visits but now, Anna is growing up and getting curious and questioning herself after watching people her age having a different life than hers. Anna realizes she is getting identified with her sister and thereby she makes a decision, which has a cost, losses and  consequences.

“My Sister’s Keeper goes through the phases that a person goes through while helping someone to fight for their life and how they feel the pressure while doing so.”

Hartes and Golds have been neighbours for eighteen years and they have shared everything from carpool duties, chinese food and chicken pox. Eighteen years to them feels like they were never apart and have always been together in each other’s life. Their parents have been the best friends and so were the children. 

Chris and Emily have been soulmates since they were born and by the time they were high school, they started growing feelings for each other.

Emily ends up dying at the age of seventeen from a gunshot to her head. Later on, Chris finds that there is a missing bullet in his dad’s gun.

Plain truth, the story revolves around Katie Fisher and later Ellie Hathaway. 

The story is based on a small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County widely known for its landscape views and sceneries and lifestyle. The beautiful calmness was shattered when an infant was found dead in a barn of an Amish farmer. Upon investigations and enquiries, there were two major disclosures that came forward. 

We all are extra cautious when we use a glass product, let it be a glass, cups, mirrors and other varieties. Unlike other types of materials such as silverware or products of plastic, we do not handle them with much care or rather casually knowing at least it won’t break and even if the product gets damaged it can still be used whereas glass shatters if it falls and can’t properly be the same ever.

This is a story of a family who has a child with severe osteogenesis imperfecta. 

As day passes by, Charlotte and Sean worry about their growing up and surround themselves with questions starting with if. They begin questioning what if their fate was different and what if their child was born.

6. House Rules (2010)

Jacob Hunt is in his teenage years with Asperger’s syndrome. Although he has difficulty in expressing himself, he is very capable of solving crime scenes due to his favourite subject – forensic analysis.

One day when a terrible murder occurs and police turns in to Jacob’s house, police took Jacob’s expressions as guilt. His mother was already trying to fit in the society and his brother realizes the fact more that nothing is normal due to Jacob.

So did Jacob commit the murder?

7. Change of Heart (2008)

This story is about a death row inmate who wants to donate his heart to his victim’s sister for transplant as the only way to redeem himself.

8. The Storyteller (2013)

This story revolves around a baker, Sage Singer who works through the nights to avoid her sorrows and one day an older man visits her. They exchanged conversations and realized the other person was able to understand them deeply. 

The novel brings out questions regarding how far can someone go to protect their families and keep their past away from their present and future.

9. The Tenth Circle (2006)

Trixie in fourteenth year of her life, fell in love for the first time with Jason but things changed and she was no longer head over heels on Jason after what happened in the party. After which, it became very necessary for Daniel and Laura to be there for her daughter.

10. Salem Falls (2001)

Jack with Ph.D. works as a dishwasher in Salem Falls for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner after losing his reputation from a school where he used to be a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girl’s prep school.

But Addie is uncomfortable around men and Jack is uncomfortable around women and maintains distance from them.

Addie slowly makes a place in her heart for him and is desperate to know the secrets that Jack is hiding to decide whether to give in or not.

11. Keeping Faith (1999)

“A triumph. This novel’s haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget.”

—Richmond Times Dispatch

12. The Perfect Match (2002)

Prosecutors protect people and fight for their clients. How far and how much sacrifice will she put in when hears that her 5 year old son has been molested in his school? Would she be able to prove? Can she bring justice? If she fails as a prosecutor how will she feel as a mother?

13. Vanishing Acts (2005)

Delia Hopkins is very excited to get married to her fiance. She has a young daughter and a loving father. She lives in New Hampshire and has data about missing people. One day she gets flooded with flashbacks of her previous family, which got her confused.

What would she do now? What turmoil will she go through now as she now knows that the family she is living with is not her own.

14. Sing You Home (2011)

Losing a baby is disastrous and being unable to conceive a child is heart-breaking as well. Years after years of trying to conceive a baby, Zoe still wants to try for children but Max doesn’t want to. Being fed up, max files for divorce. 

How would Zoe cope up and what’s written in the future for both of them? Will Zoe become a mother?

15. Second Glance

A ghost hunter was called by a developer to check the property for spiritual purposes and the hunter tried to convince the developer. This story involves oves, horror incidentals and renewal. 

Final thoughts about Jodi Picoult Novels

Jodi Picoult has suspense in her stories, she clearly knows how to create the need for the users to keep on reading. Surely, her list of novels are interesting due to the drama involved in it relating to friends, family, past mistakes, God, family and much more. 

About Jodi Picoult

Bio 

Born on May 19, 1966, in Nesconset, New York on Long Island. She now lives with her husband and her three children in New Hampshire. She belonged to a non-practising Jewish family. Most importantly, both her mom and grandmother were teachers. While growing up she realized her fondness for reading and writing and created her first story at the age of 5 years old The Lobster Which Misunderstood.

Early Life 

Picoult was born in Nesconset, New York, on Long Island and has one younger brother. She graduated from Smithtown High School East in June, 1983. She has described her family as “non-practicing Jewish”. Picoult wrote her first story at age five, titled “The Lobster Which Misunderstood”. Picoult’s mother and grandmother were both teachers, and she says that their influence on her was very important

Education

Jodi Picoult is an alumnus of Princeton University, graduated in 1987 with A.B. in English for which she completed a 320-page long thesis titled “Development”. 

She has a master’s degree from Harvard University.

She has received two Doctor of Letters in education from Dartmouth College in 2010

and University of New Haven in 2012.

Career

While in college she had already published two short stories in Seventeen magazine.

After graduation she edited textbooks, taught eight grade English and a variety of other jobs.

In 2016, Picoult was invited to be Princeton’s Class Day Speaker before commencement.

Jodi Picoult Fan base

Jodi’s books have been translated into thirty-four languages in thirty-five countries.

Awards and Honors received by Jodi

• New England Bookseller Award for Fiction – 2003
• Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association – 2005
• Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year – 2005
• Lifetime Achievement Award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America
• Fearless Fiction Award from Cosmopolitan magazine – 2007
• Waterstone’s Author of the Year – UK
• Vermont Green Mountain Book Award – 2007
• New Hampshire Granite State Book Award
• Virginia Readers Choice Award – 2007
• Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award – 2006
• Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award – 2007
• New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit – 2013–14
• Princeton Alumni Weekly Our Most Influential Alumni list
• Sarah Josepha Hale Award Medalist – 2019

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