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Five-Star Reading

9/1/2026

This summer, adult patrons at Monroe Public Library read an amazing 300 books, new and old, in a wide variety of genres and formats, for our Summer Reading program. Here are just some of the books on our shelves that patrons like you awarded five stars. Take a look: maybe you can find your next five-star read here!

Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick
You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
Word Play by Ivan Brunetti
Strangers by Belle Burden
A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Making It Without Losing It by Jess Ekstrom
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
Twenty by James Grippando
Roots by Alex Haley
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Brothers McKay by Craig Johnson
The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
Growing up Saved by Kristen LaValley
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay by Jenny Lawson
This Country by Navied Mahdavian
The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin
The Intruder by Freida McFadden
The Heirloomist by Shana Novak
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Jane Goodall by Dale Peterson
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Final Target by Nora Roberts
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Maus by Art Spiegelman
A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
Crown of War & Shadow by J. R. Ward
Where Hope Begins by Catherine West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can reserve these items on LINKcat, and many are available on Libby through 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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