Category: Adults

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LGBTQ+ Representation in Movies & TV

6/10/2025

Happy Pride Month! Gay and lesbian representation in film and television has come a long way, but LGBTQ+ representation as a whole still has a long way to go. Here are examples from our shelves—some dated, some with stereotypes, some with an overwhelming focus on pain—but most with a good-natured motive to portray a true aspect of lived experience. Check one out during June or anytime.

Killing Eve, season 1, dvd

This spy-versus-assassin drama features two women with undeniable chemistry, but a resolution that may leave some viewers disappointed.

Boy Erased, dvd

This drama, based on a true story, features a closeted gay teen forced to go to a conversion therapy program.

Bohemian Rhapsody, dvd | blu-ray

This musical drama tells the story of rock band Queen and its bisexual frontman, Freddie Mercury. Mercury's sexuality is not a focus of the film.

Moonlight, dvd

This Best Picture winner tells the heartrending story of Chiron finding his identity as a gay black man, at three points in his life.

Challengers, blu-ray

Built around a love triangle between three tennis players, two male and one female, this film concentrates on the athletic and romantic rivalry of Art and Patrick, and their attraction to and obsession with one another.

Knock at the Cabin, dvd | blu-ray

This psychological horror film based on a novel by Paul Tremblay features a family of two gay men and their daughter on vacation.

The Matrix, blu-ray

This groundbreaking sci-fi action film, directed by the Wachowskis, is often interpreted as an allegory for the transgender experience.

The Danish Girl, blu-ray

A historical drama based on a novel by David Ebershoff and loosely based on the true story of Lili Elbe, a painter who is one of the earliest recipients of gender reassignment surgery; it is criticized for diverting from true facts of Elbe's life and for the casting of cis man Eddie Redmayne as a transgender woman.

Brokeback Mountain, blu-ray

A love story of two repressed cowboys who meet up periodically through the years, based on the story by Annie Proulx.

Dallas Buyers Club, blu-ray

This film is based on the true story of a man who smuggled and sold experimental AIDS drugs during the 1980s; it was criticized for the casting of cis man Jared Leto as a transgender woman.

Love, Simon, dvd

Based on a YA novel by Becky Albertalli, this teen dramedy focuses on the difficulties of being queer and closeted in high school.

Rocketman, dvd | blu-ray

Taron Egerton gives an incredible performance as Elton John in this biopic about the life and career of the notable gay performer and activist.

The Color Purple, dvd | blu-ray

This is a film of the musical version of Alice Walker's groundbreaking novel that includes a queer relationship between two women. (Also a non-musical 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg.)

Hairspray, dvd

This is the film of the musical version of John Waters' 1988 film. It includes some of the queer humor and subtext of the original, but John Travolta's performance as Edna (while funny and sweet) is the least queer incarnation of the character originally played by drag performer Divine and embodied by Harvey Fierstein on Broadway.

Bros, dvd | blu-ray

It's the mainstream gay romantic comedy everyone was waiting for! Charming and funny.

Jojo Siwa's DREAM: The Concert Experience, dvd

A fun concert video from the one-time Dance Moms star who has been a visible and outspoken bisexual person as an adult.

Some Like It Hot, blu-ray

This classic comedy farce features Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag throughout, posing as women to evade law enforcement.

Blockers, blu-ray

This silly, raunchy film about three girls wanting to have sex on prom night and the trio of parents who try to stop them includes a closeted lesbian character who comes out to her father and friends.

Lightyear, dvd | blu-ray

This Pixar film, the backstory for Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, includes "a significant female character who is in a meaningful relationship with another woman." - Variety

I Love You Phillip Morris, blu-ray

A black comedy about a con artist who falls in love with a fellow inmate, then breaks out of prison multiple times in order to reunite with him.

The Mitchells vs the Machines, dvd | blu-ray

A kid-friendly animated comedy about a family roadtrip to save the world from a robot uprising with a queer lead character. Katie's queerness is implied, but also obvious, and is just one part of who she is.

Free Fall, dvd

A German film about a man torn between exploring his sexuality with a colleague and living a settled life with his pregnant girlfriend.

Spoiler Alert, dvd | blu-ray

This comedy-drama, based on a true story, features a committed gay couple throughout their relationship.

Before You Know It, dvd

This documentary follows three gay senior men.

We Were Here, dvd

A documentary about the impact of AIDS on the gay community in San Francisco.

Codebreaker, dvd

A "docudrama" about Alan Turing, who was a pivotal codebreaker for Britain in WWII, but was ultimately prosecuted for being gay and was chemically castrated as punishment.

Every Body, dvd

This documentary focuses on the lives of three intersex individuals, fostering community for intersex people, and speaking out against non-consensual surgery performed on infants and children.

No Ordinary Man, dvd

This documentary features the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton, who was revealed to be transgender after his death.

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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.

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