Books
Books Page Tabbed Carousel
The Waitlist
Books: The Waitlist most recent card
The Weekly Waitlist: October 18, 2020
What to read while you wait for My Own Words, Solutions and Other Problems, Fifty Word for Rain, Our Malady, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor.
Books Worth a Look
Books: Books worth a look carousel
Get Started with...
Staff Picks
Books: Staff Lists Card Masonry Block
Celebrate Black Voices In the Culinary Arts!
Celebrate great food, family, love, and culture with these books by Black chefs.
Introducing the 2020 MacArthur Fellows
The program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, & professional inclinations.
Honoring the Dead: Mexico's Día de Muertos
Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebration of life and death. Learn how it started and the traditions that make it unique.
Robin Talley suggests...
Robin Talley will headline our Annual LGBTQ+ Author Talk on October 24, 2020. We asked her to recommend some books she's enjoyed.
The Weekly Waitlist: October 18, 2020
What to read while you wait for My Own Words, Solutions and Other Problems, Fifty Word for Rain, Our Malady, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor.
If you love The Walking Dead
Things have gone seriously downhill for the human race in these sometimes grim, often gruesome apocalyptic horror novels.
Cy Clopedia's Creative Nonfiction Finds
Creative nonfiction–essays, poetry, memoir, narrative journalist, nature, travel–satisfies my craving for dramatic and compelling stories.
Short Stories by Black Authors
If you are looking for a short story, try one of these collections from a different time or place, set in the future or in the here and now.
Good riddance, 2020!
Ok, 2020, we're done with you. Here are some of the things humanity is looking forward to. Take note, 2021. We're all counting on you!
2020 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction
The Nonfiction "longlist" for the 2020 National Book Awards! This year's digital ceremony will be held on November 18, 2020.
Poet Louise Glück awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
She is the first American to win the prestigious award since Bob Dylan was honored in 2016. Read her poetry in our collection.
What do you really know about Christopher Columbus?
If you are interested in learning a more complete history of the man and his era, here are some books for you.
Calico, Calamity and Courage
In the face of unimaginable hardship & calamity, these unforgettable women showed incredible grit & courage on the early American frontiers.
The Bear and the Nightingale
I want to review the whole series here because I stayed up way too late last night finishing it. This is mytho-historical fiction set in late 1300's Russia.…
Read more of this comment about The Bear and the Nightingale