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<![CDATA[Monroe Public Library in Monroe, WI - Booklists]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:35:48 -0600Weebly<![CDATA[If you like Slow Horses]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/if-you-like-slow-horses

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo, print | ebook
The Ipcress File, Len Deighton, print
Early Riser, Jasper Fforde, print | ebook | eaudio
Red Star Rising, Brian Freemantle, print
A Traitor to Memory, Elizabeth George, print | ebook
The Spy Coast, Tess Gerritsen, print
Slow Horses, Mick Herron, print | ebook | eaudio
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
A Cold Red Sunrise, Stuart M. Kaminsky, print
A Man without Breath, Philip Kerr, print | ebook
Innocence, Dean Koontz, print | large print | audio CD | ebook
Execution, Adrian Magson, print
Head Cases, John McMahon, print
The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
Close Call, Stella Rimington, print |
Loyalty, Lisa Scottoline, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
The God Game, Danny Tobey, print
Seven Down, David Whitton, print

]]><![CDATA[Picks Inspired by K-Pop Demon Hunters]]>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/picks-inspired-by-k-pop-demon-hunters

Picture Books

Where's Halmoni?, Julie J. Kim, print

Children's Fiction, Nonfiction, and Graphic Novels

Generation Misfits, Akemi Dawn Bowman, print
Meesh the Bad Demon, vol. 1, Michelle Lam, print | ebook
Sound: Shhh Bang Pop Boom, Romana Romanyshyn & Andriy Lesiv, trans. Vitaly Chernetsky, print

Teen Fiction and Graphic Novels

Once Upon a K-Prom, Kat Cho, print | eaudio
Somewhere Only We Know, Maurene Goo, print
Shine, Jessica Jung, print
Kimchi & Calamari, Rose Kent, print
I'll Be the One, Lyla Lee, print
Kuro Zakuro, vol. 1, Yoshinori Natsume, trans. Camellia Nieh, print
I Was Born for This, Alice Oseman, print | ebook
The Noh Family, Grace K. Shim, print
Future Fight Firsts, Alyssa Wong & Kevin Libranda, print

Adult Fiction

I'm Waiting for You, Kim Bo-Young, trans. Sophie Bowman & Sung Ryu, print
Love in the Big City, Sang Young Park, trans. Anton Hur, print

Adult Nonfiction

The World Atlas of Street Fashion, Caroline Cox, print
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital, Elise Hu, print | eaudio
I'll Love You Forever, Giaae Kwon, print
That Noodle Life, Mike Le & Stephanie Le, print | ebook
Fizz: 70+ Artisan Homemade Sodas, Andrea Lynn, print
Insanely Good Ramen Meals, Ivan McCombs, print | ebook
Make Your Own Soda, Anton Nocito, print
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music, Bob Stanley, print
Everything I Need I Get from You, Kaitlyn Tiffany, print

]]><![CDATA[We didn't Start the Fire]]>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/we-didnt-start-the-fire

Explore 20th century history in fiction. Inspired by the hit song by Billy Joel.

Salt Houses, Hala Alyan, print
The Immortals of Tehran, Ali Araghi, print
White Shadow, Ace Atkins, print | ebook
Killing Castro, Lawrence Block, print | eaudio
Bridge over the River Kwai, Pierre Boulle, print
Can’t We Be Friends?, Denny S. Bryce & Eliza Knight, print
Departure 37, Scott Carson, print
Back Channel, Stephen L. Carter, print
When We Left Cuba, Chanel Cleeton, print | ebook | eaudio
Miracle Cure, Harlan Coben, print | ebook
Ask Not, Max Allan Collins, print
Bye Bye Baby, Max Allan Collins, print
Safe Houses, Dan Fesperman, print
The Quiet American, Graham Greene, print
Trinity, Louisa Hall, print
Archangel, Robert Harris, print
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein, print | ebook | eaudio
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, print | ebook | eaudio
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, print | ebook | eaudio
Summer of '69, Elin Hilderbrand, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The Third Bullet, Stephen Hunter, print
Night Train, Thom Jones, print
Leaving Berlin, Kanon, print | ebook | eaudio
11/22/63, Stephen King, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver, print | ebook
The Family, Naomi Krupitsky, print | ebook | eaudio
The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee, print
Watergate, Thomas Mallon, print | ebook | eaudio
Home, Toni Morrison, print | ebook | eaudio
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, print | ebook
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, print | ebook | eaudio
The Secrets We Kept, Lara Prescott, print | ebook | eaudio
Coronation Year, Jennifer Robson, print | ebook
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, print | ebook
The Frozen Hours, Jeff Shaara, print
An Honorable Man, Paul Vidich, print
Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut, print
Mrs. Everything, Jennifer Weiner, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio

]]><![CDATA[Something odd is Happening...]]>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/something-odd-is-happening

The Sky above the Roof, Nathacha Appanah, trans. Geoffrey Strachan, print
Life after Life, Kate Atkinson, print | ebook | eaudio
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
Book of Night, Holly Black, print | ebook | eaudio
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Flux, Jinwoo Chong, print | ebook | eaudio
The Ferryman, Justin Cronin, print | ebook | eaudio
Dark Matter, Blake Crouch, print | ebook | eaudio
The Candy House, Jennifer Egan, print | ebook | eaudio
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, print | ebook | eaudio
Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey, print | ebook | eaudio
American Gods, Neil Gaiman, print | ebook | eaudio
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings, print
The Fortune Seller, Rachel Kapelke-Dale, print
The Dead Take the A Train, Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey, print | ebook | eaudio
Sun of Blood and Ruin, Mariely Lares, print
The Book of Love, Kelly Link, print | ebook | eaudio
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell, print | ebook | eaudio
Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, print | ebook | eaudio
How High We Go In the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu, print | ebook | eaudio
The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz, print
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor, print | ebook | eaudio
Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi, print | eaudio

Same Bed Different Dreams, Ed Park, print
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Natasha Pulley, print | ebook
The Surviving Sky, Kritika H. Rao, print | ebook
Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse, print | ebook
Chosen Ones, Veronica Roth, print | ebook
Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon, print | ebook | eaudio
Polostan, Neal Stephenson, print
Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer, print | ebook | eaudio

]]><![CDATA[Education]]>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/education

The Call of the Wild and Free, Ainsley Arment, print | ebook
You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!, William Ayers, et al., print
The Education Wars, Jennifer C. Berkshire, print
What School Could Be, Ted Dintersmith, print
Original Sins, Eve L. Ewing, print
Wonder Year, Julie Frieder, print
Battle for the American Mind, Pete Hegseth, print | ebook | eaudio
They Came for the Schools, Mike Hixenbaugh, print | ebook | eaudio
Black Lives Matter at School, ed. Denisha Jones, print |
The Stolen Year, Anya Kamenetz, print |
The One World Schoolhouse, Salman Khan, print |
Making Americans, Jessica Lander, print
Slaying Goliath, Diane Ravitch, print
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, Jack Schneider, print
False Starts, Casey Stockstill, print

]]><![CDATA[Small Town, Feel-Good Fiction]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:30:00 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/small-town-feel-good-fiction

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, Mitch Albom, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen, print | ebook
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, print | ebook
Britt-Marie Was Here, Fredrik Backman, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
Earth’s the Right Place for Love, Elizabeth Berg, print | ebook | eaudio
Heart and Soul, Maeve Binchy, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Rainwater, Sandra Brown, print | large print | audio CD | ebook
The Quilter's Apprentice, Jennifer Chiaverini, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
Sweet Salt Air, Barbara Delinsky, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos, print | ebook
Last Bus to Wisdom, Ivan Doig, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop, Fannie Flagg, print | ebook | eaudio
This Summer Will Be Different, Carley Fortune, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Firefly Lane, Kristin Hannah, print | large print | audio CD | ebook
Eventide, Kent Haruf, print | ebook | eaudio
Evvie Drake Starts Over, Linda Holmes, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The Perfect Couple, Elin Hilderbrand, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
To Be Where You Are, Jan Karon, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune, print | ebook | eaudio

Same As It Ever Was, Claire Lombardo, print | ebook | eaudio
Cottage by the Sea, Debbie Macomber, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
The Boardwalk Bookshop, Susan Mallery, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Christy, Catherine Marshall, print | audio CD | ebook
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
Hideaway, Nora Roberts, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Slow Dance, Rainbow Rowell, print | ebook | eaudio
The Best of Me, Nicholas Sparks, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Very Valentine, Adriana Trigiani, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio

]]><![CDATA[Abortion, Roe & Dobbs]]>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:00:00 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/abortion-roe-dobbs

You Must Stand Up, Amanda Becker, print
We Choose To, Curtis Boyd & Glenna Halverson-Boyd, print
Coercion, Kylie Cheung, print
After Dobbs, David S. Cohen & Carole Joffe, print
The Fall of Roe, Elizabeth Dias & Lisa Lerer, print | ebook | eaudio
The Turnaway Study, Diana Greene Foster, print | ebook
Access, Rebecca Grant, print
Undue Burden, Shefali Luthra, print
Handbook for a Post-Roe America, Robin Marty, print
A Termination, Honor Moore, print
Life's Work, Willie Parker, print
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, Katha Pollitt, print
Bodies on the Line, Lauren Rankin, print | ebook
Beyond Limits, Shelley Sella, print
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win, Jessica Valenti, print
A Question of Choice, Sarah Weddington, print
This Common Secret, Susan Wicklund, print
Defenders of the Unborn, Daniel K. Williams, print
Madame Restell, Jennifer Wright, print | ebook | eaudio
A Complicated Choice, Katey Zeh, print

]]><![CDATA[Disability Pride]]>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:00:00 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/disability-pride

You Are More than Your Body, Jennifer Caspari, print
About Us, ed. Peter Catapano & Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, print
Deaf Utopia, Nyle DiMarco, print | audio CD | eaudio
Haben, Haben Girma, print | eaudio
From the Periphery, Pia Justesen, print
Demystifying Disability, Emily Ladau, print | ebook | eaudio
The Country of the Blind, Andrew Leland, print | large print | eaudio
Leg, Greg Marshall, print | ebook | eaudio
The Hard Parts, Oksana Masters, print
Against Technoableism, Ashley Shew, print | ebook
Unfit Parent, Jessica Slice, print
Sitting Pretty, Rebekah Taussig, print | ebook | eaudio
Accessible America, Bess Williamson, print
Disability Visibility, ed. Alice Wong, print | ebook | eaudio
The Year of the Tiger, Alice Wong, print
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, Tiffany Yu, print

]]><![CDATA[just millennial things]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:10:04 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/just-millennial-things

Nonfiction & Poetry

They Can't Kill Us until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib, print | ebook
Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh, print | ebook
Respect, Inti Chavez Perez, print
Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz, print
Toxic, Sarah Ditum, print
Electric Arches, Eve L. Ewing, print
I Was Their American Dream, Malaka Gharib, print
Girl on Girl, Sophie Gilbert, print
Wannabe, Aisha Harris, print
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby, print | ebook | eaudio
This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jerkins, print | ebook
Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis, print
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul, print | eaudio
The Abercrombie Age, Myles Ethan Lascity, print
Dear Prudence, Daniel M. Lavery, print
The New Masculinity, Alex Manley, print
Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch, print | ebook
Know My Name, Chanel Miller, print | ebook | eaudio
Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Shoji Morimoto, trans. Don Knotting, print | ebook
Paperback Crush, Gabrielle Moss, print
Burnout, Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski, print | ebook | eaudio
Can't Even, Anne Helen Petersen, print | ebook
My Body, Emily Ratajkowski, print | ebook | eaudio
And Then You Die of Dysentery, Lauren Reeves, print
Attention: A Love Story, Casey Schwartz, print
The Woman in Me, Britney Spears, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
The Theft of a Decade, Joseph C. Sternberg, print
Everything I Need I Get from You, Kaitlyn Tiffany, print
More Than Enough, Elaine Welteroth, print | ebook | eaudio
Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener, print | ebook | eaudio
I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai, print | ebook | eaudio
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, print | ebook | eaudio

Fiction

The List, Yomi Adegoke, print | ebook | eaudio
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily Austin, print | ebook | eaudio
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Kim Jiyoung, born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo, trans. Jamie Chang, print | ebook
Dominicana, Angie Cruz, print | ebook | eaudio
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, print | ebook | eaudio
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Akwaeke Emezi, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Poorly Drawn Lines, Reza Farazmand, print
We Are Here Forever, Michelle Gish, print | ebook
Con Artists, Luke Healy, print
Book Lovers, Emily Henry, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang, print | ebook | eaudio
No One Is Talking about This, Patricia Lockwood, print | ebook | eaudio
Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston, print | ebook | eaudio
New Waves, Kevin Nguyen, print
Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler, print | ebook | eaudio
Here for the Wrong Reasons, Annabel Paulsen & Lydia Wang, print | eaudio
Smile and Look Pretty, Amanda Pellegrino, print
Normal People, Sally Rooney, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya, print
Everyone's a Aliebn When ur a Aliebn Too, Jonny Sun, print
Funny You Should Ask, Elissa Sussman, print | ebook | eaudio
Roaming, Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki, print
Girlfriend on Mars, Deborah Willis, print
Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Kevin Wilson, print | ebook | eaudio
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

]]><![CDATA[Modern Military]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:04:39 GMThttps://www.monroepubliclibrary.org/booklists/modern-military

The Fifth Act, Elliot Ackerman, print
Volunteers, Jerad W. Alexander, print
Thank You for My Service, Mat Best, print | eaudio
Unbecoming, Anuradha Bhagwati, print
A Soldier's Life, Edna W. Cummings, print
Un-American, Erik Edstrom, print
Shoot Like a Girl, Mary Jennings Hegar, print
Bravo Company, Ben Kesling, print
Uncertain Ground, Phil Klay, print
American Sniper, Chris Kyle, print
Ashley's War, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, print | eaudio
Drift, Rachel Maddow, print | ebook | eaudio
The Operator, Robert O'Neill, print | ebook | eaudio
No Easy Day, Mark Owen, print | ebook | eaudio
Walk in My Combat Boots, James Patterson & Matt Eversman, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
On Killing Remotely, Wayne Phelps, print
Grunt, Mary Roach, print | audio CD | ebook
Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Lyle Jeremy Rubin, print
Army of None, Paul Scharre, print
Danger Close, Amber Smith, large print
Hiding for My Life, Karen Solt, print
Three Wise Men, Beau Wise, print | ebook | eaudio

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