Apr 4, 2022
It's National Library Week! Learn how to Connect with Your Library during the week of April 3-9, 2022, and all year long. Join Beth and Pearl as they discuss library-centered fiction and get suggestions from a variety of genres to add to your TBR.
Beth & Pearl's
Suggestions
Cozy Mystery (oh so many)
-Cat in the Stacks Mystery series by Miranda James (Book
1: Murder Past Due)
-Blue Ridge Library Mystery series by Victoria Gilbert
(Book 1: A Murder for the Books)
-Library Lover’s Mysteries by Jenn McKinlay (Book 1:
Books Can Be Deceiving)
-Lighthouse Library Mystery series by Eva Gates (Book 1:
By Book or by Crook)
-Haunted Library Mystery series by Allison Brook (Book 1:
Death Overdue)
-A Bookmobile Cat Mystery series by Laurie Cass (Book 1:
Lending a Paw)
Fantasy
-The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
-The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
-Hell’s Library series by A.J. Hackwith (Book 1: The Library of
the Unwritten)
-The Great Library series by Rachel Caine (Book 1: Ink and
Bone)
-All Souls Series by Deborah Harkness (Book 1: A Discovery of
Witches)
Romance
-The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson
-What You Wish For by Katherine Center
-No Offense by Meg Cabot
-The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
-The Month of Borrowed Dreams by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Historical Fiction
-The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
-Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
-The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele
Richardson
Contemporary Fiction
-The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
-Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern
-The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
Bonus Nonfiction Suggestions
-The Library Book by Susan Orlean
-The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And their race to save the
world's most precious manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
-Dewey: The small-town library cat who touched the world
by Vicki Myron
-I Work at a Public Library: A collection of crazy stories from
the stacks by Gina Sheridan
Sources
American Library Association. (n.d.). National Library
Week. https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek
Nield, D. (2016, August 11). People Who Read Books Live Almost 2 Years Longer, Study Finds. https://www.sciencealert.com/spending-more-time-reading-could-help-you-live-longer-suggests-a-new-study
Obaro, T. (2019, October 7). "Me Before You" Author Jojo Moyes Has Been Accused Of Publishing A Novel With "Alarming Similarities" To Another Author's Book. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomiobaro/jojo-moyes-the-giver-of-stars-kim-richardson-bookwoman-of