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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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Disability Pride

10/7/2025

 
  • 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
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just millennial things

10/6/2025

 
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
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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

Modern Military

10/6/2025

 
  • 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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    Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

    (LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken.)

    For lists before 2021:
    Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.
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