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The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ages 8+ When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he’s swept into the magical world of Fantastica–so…

The Moorchild

The Moorchild Eloise McGraw Ages 9-12 Half moorfolk and half human, and unable to shape-shift or disappear at will, Moql threatens the safety of the…

The Moonlight Man

The Moonlight Man Betty Ren Wright Ages 9-12 When their father moves them for the seventh time in the five years since their mother’s death,…

The Moffats

The Moffats Eleanor Estes Ages 8-12 Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and—most days at least—the responsible one; Joey, who despite…

The Misadventures of Maude March

The Misadventures of Maude March Audrey Couloumbis Ages 8-12 Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she…

Twilight

Twilight Stephanie Meyer Fantasy Isabella Swan’s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever…

One Of Us Is Next

One Of Us Is Next Karen M. McManus Mystery Thriller Come on, Bayview, you know you’ve missed this. A ton of copycat gossip apps have…

One Of Us Is Lying

One Of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus Mystery Thriller Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview…

Hollow City

Hollow City The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Ages 12+ Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and…

Genius The Game

Genius The Game Leopoldo Gout Ages 12-18 In Genius: The Game, an action-packed young adult novel by Leopoldo Gout, three brilliant teens from around the…

Frankenstein

Frankenstein Mary Shelly Ages 15+ Mary Shelley’s classic tale adapted for children with illustrations

Fahrenheit 451 

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Dystopia Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with…

Eleanor & Park

Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Coming of Age Ages 14+ Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of…

Dry

Dry Neal & Jarrod Shusterman Dystopia The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become…

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Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi 

Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi Robert Bruce Flanders LDS Non Fiction A history of what became a romantic       legend about a martyred prophet, a…

Mormons and Masons

Mormons and Masons Matthew B. Brown Why did Joseph Smith become a Freemason? Who introduced Freemasonry into Nauvoo, Illinois, in the early 1840’s? Do the…

Mormon Polygamous Families

Mormon Polygamous Families Life in the Principle Jessie L. Embry Mormons and non-Mormons all have their views about how polygamy was practiced in the Church…

Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Massacre at Mountain Meadows Ronald W. Walker & Richard E. Turley Jr.  LDS Non Fiction On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under…

Lectures on Faith

Lectures on Faith Joseph Smith Jr.  LDS Non Fiction Embark on a spiritual journey with “Lectures on Faith,” a pivotal work by Joseph Smith, the…

Larry McMurtry: A Life

Larry McMurtry: A Life Tracy Daugherty Memoir In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as…

Katy

Katy Carol Adams Non Fiction Settlers coming to the Katy area in the mid-1800s found a cane-filled creek on the vast coastal prairie. The area…

Greenlights 

Greenlights Matthew McConaughey Memoir I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries…

Going Infinite

Going Infinite Michael Lewis Business Non Fiction When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities,…

Furiously Happy

Furiously Happy Jenny Lawson Mental Health “I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they…

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The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman  Historical Fiction After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job…

Moloka’i

Moloka’i Alan Brennert  Historical Fiction Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one…

Pride and Prejudice 

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Classics When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to…

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Classics “A piece of perfect storytelling.” — Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1844, The Count of Monte…

Janet Eyre

Janet Eyre Charlotte Brontë  Historical Fiction “Jane Eyre” is a classic novel by Charlotte Brontë that follows the life of its orphaned protagonist, Jane Eyre….

Everything is Tuberculosis

Everything is Tuberculosis John Green Medical Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu­manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen…

Armenian Identity In a Changing World

Armenian Identity In a Changing World Levon Abrahamian History We start with the path that defines the four types of genealogical national trees or models…

And There Was Light

And There Was Light Jon Meacham American History A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of…

American Kingpin

American Kingpin Nick Bilton True Crime In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine…

A Man Of Iron

A Man Of Iron Troy Senik Presidents Grover Cleveland’s political career—a dizzying journey that saw him rise from obscure lawyer to president of the United…

On Mental Toughness

On Mental Toughness Harvard Business Review Self-Help If you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these ten articles by experts in the field. We’ve…

Extreme Ownership

Extreme Ownership Jocko Willink and Leif Babin Business Leadership Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training to pass on their…

Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits James Clear Self Help Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving–every day. James Clear,…

Tiny Beautiful Things

Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed Memoir For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl…

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Hamnet 

Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell Historical Fiction England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and…

Everything is Illuminated

Everything is Illuminated Safran Foer Historical Fiction With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the…

A Man Called Ove

A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman  Fiction Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were…

Everything I Never Told You

Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng Historical Fiction Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a…

A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Historical Fiction A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson,…

Mad Honey

Mad Honey Jennifer and Finney Boylan  Fiction Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a…

The Perfect Couple

The Perfect Couple Elon Hilderbrand  Mystery Thriller It’s Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as…

In a Dark, Dark Wood

In a Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware Mystery Thriller Sometimes the only thing to fear…is yourself. When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to the English…

Imaginary Friend

Imaginary Friend Stephen Chbosky  Mystery Thriller Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she…

I Hunt Killers

I Hunt Killers Book 1 of 3 Barry Lyga Mystery Thriller  It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field.  Except for the body….

The Housemaid’s Wedding

The Housemaid’s Wedding Freida McFadden Mystery Thriller Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.  I’m engaged to the man of my…

The Housemaid is Watching

The Housemaid is Watching Frieda McFadden Mystery Thriller  I used to clean other people’s houses―now, I can’t believe this home is actually mine. The charming…

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Sundays At Tiffany’s

Sundays At Tiffany’s James Patterson  Romance  As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only…

Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas

Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas James Patterson  Mystery Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He’s a writer, a house painter, an original thinker…

Attachments

Attachments Rainbow Rowell Romance  Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.)…

November 9

November 9 Colleen Hoover  Romance  Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend…

Verity

Verity Colleen Hoover Romance  Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime….

It Starts With Us

It Starts With Us Colleen Hoover Romance Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into…

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller Fantasy  A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat…

Circe

Circe Madeline Miller  Fantasy In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is…

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