Summer Booklists

LOOKING FOR A GREAT SUMMER READ? CHECK OUT THESE BOOK LISTS!

Bloomberg 10 Books for a Summer Reading List

Business Insider 20 Books Bill Gates Says You Should Read This Summer

Bustle 32 New Fiction Books Coming Out This Summer That You’ll Definitely Want In Your Travel Bag

Buzzfeed 30 Summer Books to Get Excited About

Coastal Living The Best New Books for Summer 2018

Elle Magazine The 40 Best Books to Read This Summer

Entertainment Weekly Summer 2018 Book Preview: 7 Thrillers You Need to Read This Summer

LOOKING FOR A GREAT SUMMER READ? CHECK OUT THESE BOOK LISTS!

Bloomberg 10 Books for a Summer Reading List

Business Insider 20 Books Bill Gates Says You Should Read This Summer

Bustle 32 New Fiction Books Coming Out This Summer That You’ll Definitely Want In Your Travel Bag

Buzzfeed 30 Summer Books to Get Excited About

Coastal Living The Best New Books for Summer 2018

Elle Magazine The 40 Best Books to Read This Summer

Entertainment Weekly Summer 2018 Book Preview: 7 Thrillers You Need to Read This Summer

Entertainment Weekly Summer 2018 Book Preview: The Best Beach Reads for Vegging Out

Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best Books of 2018… So Far

Esquire The 20 Smart Books You’ll Want to Read at the Beach This Summer

Esquire The Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 (So Far)

Esquire The Best Books of 2018 (So Far)

Fodor’s 22 New Books to Read on Your Summer Vacation

Fortune 8 Business Books That Are Actually Great Summer Beach Reads

Glamour Magazine The 17 Best Books to Read This Summer

Good Housekeeping The 25 Best New Books for Summer 2018

Harper’s Bazaar The 15 Best Beach Reads of 2018

Indie Next Summer 2018 List for Reading Groups

InStyle 11 Books to Bury Your Nose In This Summer

LitHub The Ultimate Summer Books Preview

New York Magazine 10 Book Editors on What They’re Reading for Fun This Summer

New York Magazine The Best Books of the Year (So Far)

New York Magazine 18 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer

New York Times 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer

New York Times 73 Books to Read While the Sun Is Out and the Days Are Long

Newsday Best Summer Books 2018

Newsweek The 50 Coolest Books to Read This Summer: 2018’s Best Fiction and Non-Fiction (So Far)

Nylon 46 Great Books to Read This Summer

Oprah Magazine Top Books of Summer

Parade Magazine The Top 26 Hottest Books of Summer 2018

People Magazine The Best Summer Books

Popsugar This Summer’s Hottest New Books for Every Type of Reader

Popsugar The 25 Best New Books to Put in Your Beach Bag This Summer

Publishers Weekly Summer Reads 2018

Real Simple 7 Authors on the Books They’re Packing for Their Summer Vacations

Southern Living The Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018

Time Magazine Best Novels of 2018 So Far

Time Magazine Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 So Far

Time Magazine 22 New Books to Read This Summer

Town & Country 16 Books to Read This Summer

USA Today 10 Hot Books for Summer Reading

Vanity Fair Summer Reading: This Season’s Ultimate Fiction List

Vogue Magazine 13 Books to Thrill, Entertain, and Sustain You This Summer

Washington Post The 39 Books We’re Talking About This Summer

 

 

Best Books of 2017

The A.V. Club’s Favorite Books of 2017

Bloomberg The Best Books of 2017

Booklist Top 10 Cookbooks: 2017

Booklist Top 10 First Novels: 2017

BookPage Best Books of 2017

The A.V. Club’s Favorite Books of 2017

BBC Culture The 10 Best Books of 2017

Bloomberg The Best Books of 2017

Booklist Top 10 Cookbooks: 2017

Booklist Top 10 First Novels: 2017

BookPage Best Books of 2017

BookPage 10 Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2017

BookPage 10 Best Romance Novels of 2017

Bustle The 9 Best True Crime Books of 2017

Bustle The 17 Best Fiction Books of 2017

BuzzFeed The 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2017

Chicago Review of Books The Best Fiction Books of 2017

CNBC 13 of the Best Business Books of 2017

The Economist Books of the Year 2017

Elle Magazine Best Books of 2017

Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best Books of 2017

Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best Debut Novels of 2017

Esquire The 50 Best Books of 2017

GQ These Are the Best Books of 2017

Harper’s Bazaar The 19 Best New Books of 2017 (So Far)

Huffington Post The Best Fiction Books Of 2017

Kirkus Best Fiction of 2017

Kirkus Most Page-Turning Nonfiction of 2017

Library Journal Best Books 2017

LibraryReads Favorite of Favorites 2017

LitHub The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List

Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2017: Fiction

Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2017: Nonfiction

National Geographic 12 Books We Loved in 2017

New York Magazine The 10 Best Books of 2017

Newsday Best Books of 2017

NPR’s Guide To 2017’s Great Reads

NY Times 10 Best Books of 2017

NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2017

NY Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017

O Magazine Our Favorite Books of 2017

Paste Magazine The 20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017

Paste Magazine The 25 Best Novels of 2017

People Magazine The Top 10 Books of 2017

Publishers Weekly Best Books 2017

Rolling Stone 10 Best Music Books of 2017

Shelf Awareness Our Best Adult Books of 2017

Time Magazine Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017

Time Magazine Top 10 Novels of 2017

USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2017

Vogue Magazine The 10 Best Books of 2017

Washington Post Best Books 2017

Fall Booklists

FIND SOMETHING NEW TO READ THIS FALL!

AARP 12 New Books for Fall

BookPage First Fiction: What’s Next in 2017?

BookPage Fall 2017: Most Anticipated Fall Nonfiction

BookPage 2017 Preview: Most Anticipated Fall Fiction

BookPage Fall’s Most Anticipated Mysteries

FIND SOMETHING NEW TO READ THIS FALL!

AARP 12 New Books for Fall

BookPage First Fiction: What’s Next in 2017?

BookPage Fall 2017: Most Anticipated Fall Nonfiction

BookPage 2017 Preview: Most Anticipated Fall Fiction

BookPage Fall’s Most Anticipated Mysteries

Buzzfeed 28 Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Fall

Chicago Review of Books 18 Books You Need to Read This Fall

Elle Magazine 27 of the Best Books to Read This Fall

Entertainment Weekly 20 Books to Read This Fall

Esquire Magazine The Best Books of 2017 (So Far)

Goodreads 21 Big Books of Fall

Harper’s Bazaar Magazine 9 New Books You Need to Read in October

Huffington Post 28 New Fiction Books to Add to Your Must-Read List This Fall

Kirkus Popular Fiction Writers’ Latest Books You Must Read

Kirkus This Fall’s Can’t-Miss, Most Noteworthy Memoirs

The Millions Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2017 Book Preview

New York Magazine 44 New Books to Read This Fall

Newsday Best Fall Books

NY Daily News 9 of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall

PBS 13 Fall Books That Will Make You Think

POPSUGAR The 25 Must-Read Books Hitting Bookshelves This Fall

Publishers Weekly The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2017

Refinery29 These Are Our Favorite Books Of 2017 — So Far

Southern Living Magazine Books Coming Out in the Fall That We Can’t Wait to Read

USA Today 10 Cool Books for Fall

Washington Post 9 Short-Story Collections We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall

Entertainment Weekly: The Best Fiction & Nonfiction of 2016 So Far…

FICTION

The Girls by Emma Cline
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print

LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Also available: eBook, audio download

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Also available: eBook, audio download

FICTION

The Girls by Emma Cline
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print

LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Also available: eBook, audio download

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Also available: eBook, audio download

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
Also available: eBook

This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets

Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Smoke by Dan Vyleta
Also available: eBook

The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print

NONFICTION

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Also available: eBook, audio download

All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
Also available: eBook

Grunt by Mary Roach
Also available: eBook, CD book

Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Also available: eBook, audio download

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
Also available: eBook

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Also available: eBook

A Mother’s Reckoning by Susan Klebold
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Time Magazine Best Books of 2016 So Far

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Also available: eBook

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

The Past by Tessa Hadley
Also available: eBook, audio download

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Also available: eBook

The Fireman by Joe Hill
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Also available: eBook

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Also available: eBook

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

The Past by Tessa Hadley
Also available: eBook, audio download

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Also available: eBook

The Fireman by Joe Hill
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Also available: eBook

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Also available: eBook, audio download

Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide by Michael Kinsley

My Struggle: Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Gone With the Mind by Mark Leyner

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Also available: eBook, audio download

Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
Also available: eBook

Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran by Barry Meier
Also available: audio download

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Also available: eBook

Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
Also available: eBook

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
Also available: eBook

New York Magazine: The Best Books of 2016 (So Far)

In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
Also available: eBook

Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
Also available: eBook

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Also available: eBook

Hystopia by David Means
Also available: eBook

Zero K by Don DeLillo
Also available: eBook, audio download

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Also available: eBook, audio download

The Girls by Emma Cline
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print book

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Also available: eBook

Bullies: A Friendship by Alex Abramovich
Also available: eBook, audio download

Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams

In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
Also available: eBook

Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
Also available: eBook

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Also available: eBook

Hystopia by David Means
Also available: eBook

Zero K by Don DeLillo
Also available: eBook, audio download

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Also available: eBook, audio download

The Girls by Emma Cline
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print book

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Also available: eBook

Bullies: A Friendship by Alex Abramovich
Also available: eBook, audio download

Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams

Featured Display: Exploring Mars

Did you love the new movie The Martian, or the book by Andy Weir it’s based on? Then come check out our display of books and movies, both fiction and nonfiction, on the exploration of Mars!

Did you love the new movie The Martian, or the book by Andy Weir that it’s based on? Then come check out our display of books and movies, both fiction and nonfiction, on the exploration of Mars!

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Titles on display:

Mars Life by Ben Bova

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission by Marc Kaufman

Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet by Rod Pyle

Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration by Buzz Aldrin

Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, From Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens

The Last Days on Mars (dvd)

The Martian Chronicles (dvd)

The Universe Season One (dvd)

The Universe Season Five (dvd)

2015 National Book Awards Longlist

The National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for the 2015 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 14 and the winners will be announced on November 18.

The National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for the 2015 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 14 and the winners will be announced on November 18.

FICTION

A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

Refund by Karen E. Bender

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (eBook)

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (CD book)

Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson

Honeydew by Edith Pearlman

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (eBook)

Mislaid by Nell Zink

NONFICTION

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (eBook)

Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes

Hold Still by Sally Mann

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Paradise of the Pacific by Susanna Moore

Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power

Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (eBook)

Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White

Stand with the Banned – Banned Books Week 2015

September 27 to October 3 is Banned Books Week! Stand with the banned and celebrate your freedom to read by checking out a frequently banned and/or challenged book, whether one of the classics or a more recent title.

September 27 to October 3 is Banned Books Week! Stand with the banned and celebrate your freedom to read by checking out a frequently banned and/or challenged book, whether one of the classics or a more recent title. Visit the American Library Association website to browse through the most frequently challenged titles by year or decade, and view the most frequently challenged authors, too. Or stop by the Library and grab a book from our display!

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Top 10 Challenged Books of 2014

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Playaway)

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (CD book, eBook)

It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (audio download, CD book, eBook, large print book)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard (CD book, eBook)

Drama by Rainia Telgemeier (eBook)

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For more on Banned Books Week, check out this article by the Huffington Post.