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South America Fiction

4/27/2026

 
  • At Night We Walk in Circles, Daniel Alarcón
  • A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende, trans. Nick Caistor & Amanda Hopkinson
  • My Name Is Emilia del Valle, Isabel Allende, trans. Frances Riddle
  • The Third Daughter, Talia Carner
  • Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
  • The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, Zoraida Córdova
  • Cantoras, Caro De Robertis
  • Infinite Country, Patricia Engel
  • Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez, trans. Megan McDowell
  • The Sunflower, Richard Paul Evans
  • Space Invaders, Nona Fernández, trans. Natasha Wimmer
  • Cruz, Nicolás Ferraro, trans. Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn
  • Doña Barbara, Rómulo Gallegos, trans. Robert Malloy
  • Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez, trans. Edith Grossman
  • Affections, Rodrigo Hasbún, trans. Sophie Hughes
  • Missionaries, Phil Klay
  • Hades, Argentina, Daniel Loedel
  • State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
  • The Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley
  • The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
  • The Seven Sisters, Lucinda Riley
  • It Would Be Night in Caracas, Karina Sainz Borgo, trans. Beth Bryer
  • The Neighborhood, Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. Edith Grossman
  • The Shape of the Ruins, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. Anne McLean
  • The Sound of Things Falling, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. Anne McLean
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
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Human-Animal Relationships

4/27/2026

 
  • Pearly Everlasting, Tammy Armstrong
  • The Last Gifts of the Universe, Riley August
  • Nordic and Finn, Peter Brandvold
  • A Dog's Journey, W. Bruce Cameron 
  • The Country Guesthouse, Robyn Carr
  • How to Be Human, Paula Cocozza
  • Say Hello to My Little Friend, Jennine Capó Crucet
  • The Conjurer’s Bird, Martin Davies
  • The Loop, Nicholas Evans
  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Mare, Mary Gaitskill
  • Hold the Dark, William Giraldi
  • Hannah’s Dream, Diane Hammond
  • Animal Stories, Peter & Maria Hoey
  • Sight Hound, Pam Houston
  • Murder Past Due, Miranda James
  • Deception Cove, Owen Laukkanen 
  • White Fang, Jack London
  • You Lucky Dog, Julia London
  • The History of Bees, Maja Lunde
  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy
  • The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals, Becky Mandelbaum 
  • Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
  • Gathering Mist, Margaret Mizushima
  • The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
  • The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
  • Cat Man, Parari
  • The Jesus Cow, Michael Perry
  • Bear, Julia Phillips
  • Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
  • The Summer of the Bear, Bella Pollen
  • The Right Side, Spencer Quinn
  • Floreana, Midge Raymond
  • The Fur Person, May Sarton
  • Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
  • The Blanket Cats, Kiyoshi Shigematsu 
  • Cactus Jack, Brad Smith
  • The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, Julia Stuart
  • An Echo Through the Snow, Andrea Thalasinos
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
  • The Horse, Willy Vlautin
  • The Shape of Snakes, Minette Walters
  • Cold Nose, Warm Heart, Mara Wells
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If you Like Sinners

4/27/2026

 
  • The Musical Brain, César Aira
  • The Ranger, Ace Atkins
  • Anything Goes, Madison Smartt Bell
  • This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us, Edgar Cantero
  • Blacktop Wasteland, S.A. Cosby
  • The Reformatory, Tananarive Due
  • The Trees, Percival Everett
  • A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faisal
  • Light in August, William Faulkner
  • Cruz, Nicolás Ferraro
  • Great Black Hope, Rob Franklin
  • Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin
  • Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith
  • The Scribe, Matthew Guinn
  • The Unwilling, John Hart
  • The Quiet Game, Greg Iles
  • Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
  • Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
  • The Carnivorous City, Toni Kan
  • Lone Woman, Victor LaValle
  • Long Division, Kiese Laymon
  • Smoke Kings, Jahmal Mayfield
  • Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Jazz, Toni Morrison
  • Trouble Is What I Do, Walter Mosley
  • Bull Mountain, Brian Panowich
  • A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
  • The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Simone St. James
  • Now You Owe Me, Aliah Wright
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If you like Slow Horses

10/17/2025

 
  • 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
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Picks Inspired by K-Pop Demon Hunters

10/16/2025

 
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​
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We didn't Start the Fire

10/15/2025

 
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​
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  • 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

Something odd is Happening...

10/14/2025

 
  • 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​
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  • 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

Education

10/13/2025

 
  • 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 
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Small Town, Feel-Good Fiction

10/11/2025

 
  • 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
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  • 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

Abortion, Roe & Dobbs

10/10/2025

 
  • 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
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