Featured Staff Pick

Peggy

Celeste Headlee

"This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure"

Staff Picks

Find your new favorite reads with this collection of top titles curated by our expert librarians.

Do Nothing

Celeste Headlee

"This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure"

Here One Moment

Here One Moment

"A woman stands up on a plane, and predicts when everyone will die. Everyone laughs it off until it starts to come true"

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

From These Roots

From These Roots

"From These Roots is not only a historical record of one woman's lineage but a call to justice that fights for all those demanding to reclaim, honor, and lay to rest the remains of mishandled lives"

History, Memoir, Non-Fiction

A Swim In A Pond In The Rain

A Swim In A Pond In The Rain

George Saunders

"From the New York Times bestselling Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us"

Isola

Allegra Goodman

"Inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, Isola is the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival"

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Hitler's Canary

Hitler's Canary

"Although he comes from a family of theater people who don't get involved in politics, ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend Anton join Bamse's brother and participate in the Danish Resistance"

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Teen

Mickey 7

"The Martian meets Multiplicity in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place."

Tilt

"Set over the course of one day, a heart-racing story about a woman facing the unimaginable, determined to find safety"

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Writing My Wrongs

Writing My Wrongs

"In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands"

Memoir, Non-Fiction

The Women

"The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm's way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten."

Historical Fiction

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library

"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived."

Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction

Race to Hawaii

"Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific."

History, Non-Fiction

Sunrise on the Reaping

Sunrise on the Reaping

Suzanne Collins

"As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena."

Fantasy, Fiction, SciFi, Teen

Rez Ball

"This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be."

Deep Creek

"On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it."

Memoir, Non-Fiction

No Bad Parts

Richard C. Schwartz

"Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts that make you who you are."

8 Days

Jessica Lockwood

"Eight days of marriage is all the time the stars bestowed upon Chason and Jessica."

Memoir, Non-Fiction

Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

"In 2024, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future."

Fantasy, Fiction, SciFi

If Women Rose Rooted

If Women Rose Rooted

"If Women Rose Rooted is a rallying cry for women to reawaken their natural power - not just for the sake of their own wellbeing, but for love of this threatened earth."

Memoir, Non-Fiction, Spirituality

Alone

Megan E. Freeman

"When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare."

Fiction, Kids, Poetry

Anna Karenina

"Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general."

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance

Slow Horses

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agents is united by one common bond: They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

The Life Impossible

The Life Impossible

"When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her."

Fantasy, Fiction

House of Bone and Rain

House of Bone and Rain

Gabino Iglesias

"a group of five teenage boys, living in Puerto Rico, seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered; a doomed tale of devotion and the afterlife of violence."

Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Bog Myrtle

"Two sisters, one stubbornly cheerful (Beatrice) and one relentlessly grumpy (Magnolia), live in a drafty old house with a family of helpful spiders."

John the Skeleton

John the Skeleton

"Everyone deserves a quiet, restful retirement. But for John, a newly retired classroom skeleton, life is just beginning."

The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang

"Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development."

The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods

"When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide"

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

One Perfect Couple

One Perfect Couple

"Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension and ingenious thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them."

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana

The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana

"Having suffered a complete loss of memory regarding every aspect of his identity, Yambo withdraws to a family home outside of Milan, where he sorts through boxes of old records"

Fiction, Historical Fiction