"Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng ($15)
- What it's about: This book follows a 12-year-old boy whose mother mysteriously vanished when he was 9. When he receives a cryptic letter, he begins to learn more about his mom and her poetry, and he meets an underground network of librarians that introduces him to a world of secrets, art, and long-awaited answers.
- What Witherspoon says: "It's set in a not-too-distant future where entire sections of the population are deemed un-American and forced away from their families. It follows the story of a young boy named Bird on the search for his mother Margaret, a poet whose work was deemed unpatriotic. I was so invested in the future of this mother and son."