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Spring Reads

New fiction coming this Spring!

  • Nonfiction
    • Audition
    • The emperor of gladness
    • The Names
    • The Missing Half
    • The Tenant
    • Gifted and Talented
    • The Staircase in the Woods
    • great big beautiful life
    • Saltwater
    • The Last Session
    • River is waiting
    • The Love Haters
    • The Float Test
    • The story she left behind
    • Sky Daddy
    • Heartwood
    • Tilt
    • All that life can afford
    • Marble Hall Murders
    • It's a Love Story
    • Rabbit Moon
    • I See You've Called in Dead
    • The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits

White Lotus Readalikes

  • Fiction
    • The Fury
    • hotel du lac
    • nine perfect strangers
    • the guest list
    • The Villa
    • The lion's den
    • The Last Resort
    • The Club
    • The Vacationers
    • The Guilt Trip
    • The Secret History
    • Every Time I Go on Vacation Someone Dies
    • You are fatally invited
    • Bad Summer People
    • Bad Tourists
    • Skios
    • Hotel World
    • The Story of the Lost Child
    • The Hotel Nantucket
    • security

US & UK Crime Classics

  • Library material
    • death of a busybody
    • man who didn't fly
    • widow of bath
    • jumping jenny
    • murder in the basement
    • big book of female detectives
    • big book of reel murders
    • big book of victorian mysteries
    • black lizard big book of locked room mysteries
    • case of the baker st irregulars
    • green for danger
    • death on the riviera
    • lake district murder
    • black spectacles
    • corpse in the waxworks
    • crooked hinge
    • lost gallows
    • mad hatter mystery
    • plague court murdersx
    • till death do us part
    • classic american crime fiction of the 1920s
    • jim hanvey detective
    • crimson snow
    • white priory murders
    • vultures in the sky
    • edinburgh mystery
    • mystery in white
    • death of a bookseller
    • foreign bodies
    • case of teh careless kitten
    • case of the shoplifter's shoe
    • death has deep roots
    • death in fancy dress
    • game without rules
    • bibliomysteries
    • detective stories
    • locked room mysteries
    • whodunits
    • death on the cherwell
    • widening stain
    • spoilt kill
    • death on the aisle
    • murder's a swine
    • long arm of the law
    • checkmate to murder
    • crook o lune
    • death of an author
    • fell murder
    • fire in the thatch
    • poast after post morten
    • theft of the iron dogs
    • these names make clues
    • two way murder
    • chianti flask
    • portrait of a murderer
    • murder at the manor
    • murder by the book
    • penguin book of murder mysteries
    • verdict of twelve
    • american gun mystery
    • chinese orange mystery
    • dutch shoe mystery
    • egyptian cross mystery
    • dead letter
    • eight faces at three
    • home sweet homicide
    • haunted lady
    • red lamp
    • the door
    • scarweather
    • cat's paw
    • silent nights
    • dead man inside
    • surprise for christmas
    • bride wore black

Poetry & Craft

Selected by Miriam Calleja. Check our online calendar for Miriam's monthly writing workshops!

  • Nonfiction
    • Reparations Now
    • Miracle Strip
    • Glass Cabin
    • Slaughterhouse for old wives' tales
    • An art, a craft, a mystery
    • Once Upon a Magic City
    • American Happiness
    • Be Gentle with Black Girls
    • Stag's Leap
    • The Beauty of the Husband
    • Devotions
    • Stones
    • Time is a Mother
    • The Wild Iris
    • Wade in the Water
    • The Book of Delights
    • Ordinary Genius
    • A Poetry Handbook
    • Bird by Bird
    • Write for Life

Cinematic Journeys

movies that move us

  • materials
    • apocalypse now
    • badlands
    • beach bum
    • beach house
    • before sunrise
    • death on the nile
    • down by law
    • duel
    • easy rider
    • eat pray love
    • everest
    • goonies
    • green book
    • IJ crystal skull
    • IJ dial of destiny
    • IJ last crusade
    • IJ raiders of the lost ark
    • into the wild
    • it happened one night
    • it's a mad mad mad mad world
    • life of pi
    • logan
    • LOTR fellowship
    • LOTR return of the king
    • LOTR two towers
    • lost in america
    • lost in translation
    • love and monsters
    • mandalorian 1
    • mandalorian 2
    • midnight in paris
    • motorcycle diaries
    • murder on the orient express
    • nebraska
    • 1917
    • nomadland
    • o brother where art thou
    • paper moon
    • pierrot le fou
    • rain man
    • secret life of walter mitty
    • seven years in tibet
    • slumdog millionaire
    • sullivan's travels
    • thelma & louise
    • ultimate bob hope
    • under the tuscan sun
    • muppet movie
    • wizard of oz
    • cannonball run
    • death race 2000
    • good year
    • guilt trip
    • hangover
    • in bruges
    • IJ temple of doom
    • inglourious basterds
    • little miss sunshine
    • lolita
    • lucky ones
    • midnight run
    • national lampoon vacation
    • natural born killers
    • peewee's big adventure
    • planes trains automobiles
    • pricilla queen ofthe desert
    • roat trip
    • the road
    • roman holiday
    • sideways
    • smokey and the bandit
    • swiss army man
    • to wong foo thanks for everything
    • two lane blacktop
    • we are the millers
    • y tu mama tambien

New York Times Bestsellers

Updated Monday, April 28

  • Fiction & Nonfiction Hardcovers
    • AF iron flame rebecca yarros
    • ANF the anxious generation haidt
    • AF onyx storm yarros
    • AF broken country
    • ANF careless people
    • ANF everything is tuberculosis
    • ANF abundance ezra klein
    • ANF who is government michael lewis
    • AF summer in the city aster
    • AF say you'll remember me
    • ANF fight
    • AF blood of hercules
    • AF firebird
    • AF butcher's masquerade
    • AF the never list
    • AF griffin sisters greatest hits
    • ANF fahrenheit 182
    • ANF on democracies and death cults
    • ANF uncharted
    • ANF john & paul

Books & Beyond - apocalypse WOW!

The next Books & Beyond meeting is Tuesday, May 27.  The topic up for discussion is dystopian, apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic books and films! If you'd rather attend online, click here to register for a Zoom link.

  • bab widget
    • last bookstore on earth
    • the host
    • alone out here
    • the world without us
    • together in a sudden strangeness
    • chain gang all stars
    • leave the world behind
    • followers
    • oryx and crake
    • where we once lived
    • the unworthy
    • close your eyes hold hands
    • the hatching
    • the last ship
    • all the water in the world
    • pesthouse
    • the passage
    • vox
    • cloud cuckoo land
    • the circle
    • american war
    • future home of the living god
    • the way
    • dog stars
    • never let me go
    • dead zone
    • the stand
    • california
    • bird box
    • station eleven
    • the road
    • hater
    • the garden
    • eruption
    • blindness
    • the swarm
    • we lived on the horizon
    • bury your gays
    • cabin at the end of the world
    • find me
    • age of miracles
    • zone one
    • harrow
    • children of men
    • mal goes to war
    • handmaid's tale
    • naming song
    • parable of the sower
    • a beginning at the end
    • ready player one
    • do androids dream of electric sheep
    • american hippo
    • riddley walker
    • canticle for leibowitz
    • how high we go in the dark
    • out of the ruins
    • the thick and the lean
    • flowers for the sea
    • the core of the sun
    • earth abides
    • robopocalypse
    • walking dead comp 1
    • the passion of new eve
    • wool
    • moon of the crusted snow
    • on the beach
    • bladerunner 2049
    • cloverfield
    • day after tomorrow
    • elevation
    • fail safe
    • furiosa
    • i think we're alone now
    • impossible
    • interstellar
    • last of us S1
    • light of my life
    • fury road
    • melancholia
    • quiet place
    • quiet place day one
    • quiet place 2
    • san andreas
    • seeking a friend for the end of the world
    • shaun of the dead
    • snowpiercer S1
    • THX 1138
    • 12 monkeys
    • 28 days later
    • 28 weeks later
    • wall-e

AANHPI Heritage Month

Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
  • Fiction
    • woman warrior
    • good immigrant
    • we too sing america
    • rise
    • one mighty and irresistible tide
    • ghosts of gold mountain
    • emperor of all maladies
    • salt fat acid heat
    • taste makers
    • why we swim
    • read dangerously
    • if they come for us
    • asian american histories of the US
    • the making of asian america
    • paradise of the pacific
    • speak okinawa
    • a living remedy
    • all you can ever know
    • what my bones know
    • fresh off the boat
    • gone
    • beautiful country
    • dear girls
    • year of the tiger
    • crying in h mart
    • homeland elegies
    • the japanese lover
    • gun dealer's daughter
    • insurrecto
    • harmless like you
    • central places
    • america is not the heart
    • bestiary
    • exhalation
    • trust exercise
    • flux
    • fox wife
    • sea change
    • hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet
    • erotic stories for punjabi widows
    • the laughter
    • nakano thrift shop
    • goodbye vitamin
    • happiness falls
    • memory piece
    • the leavers
    • sister snake
    • searching for sylvie lee
    • incendiaries
    • yellowface
    • immigrant montana
    • go home ricky
    • crazy rich asians
    • the namesake
    • native speaker
    • pachinko
    • fifty words for rain
    • the unpassing
    • runaway horses
    • killing commendatore
    • one world
    • a tale for the time being
    • shanghai girls
    • bandit queens
    • chlorine
    • on earth we're briefly gorgeous
    • Y/N
    • how much of these hills is gold
    • vera wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
    • natalie tan's book of luck and fortune
    • to be takei

Staff Picks

  • Staff Picks
    • banal nightmare Amanda
    • The Unworthy Amanda
    • Prophet Song Amanda
    • The Employees Amanda
    • The Waves Gregory
    • Memoirs from beyond the grave Gregory
    • Rental House Michelle
    • Sunrise on the Reaping Michelle
    • People We Meet on Vacation Michelle
    • Mina's Matchbox Michelle
    • Passion Project Gracie
    • The Three Lives of Cate Kay Gracie
    • Everything is Tuberculosis Gracie
    • Little Rot Gracie
    • Challenger Holley
    • Victorian Psycho Holley
    • Wild Dark Shore Holley
    • The Paris Express Holley
    • The Strange Case of Jane O Holley
    • Howl's Moving Castle Sara
    • Yours Truly Sara
    • The Vanishing Half
    • Metamorphoses Sara

Fresh Book Club Picks

  • Nonfiction
    • Chain-gang all-stars 
    • whalebone theatre
    • other birds
    • All Fours
    • by any other name
    • pandora's jar
    • Fake Accounts
    • The measure
    • shakespeare's kitchen
    • token black girl
    • the institute
    • solitary
    • the unfolding
    • demon copperhead
    • fortunes of jaded women
    • glory
    • mania
    • The Celebrants
    • haven
    • city on fire
    • firekeeper's daughter
    • sandwich
    • the bear
    • The sweetness of water 
    • the reading list
    • dear mrs bird
    • long island compromise
    • I'm glad my mom died
    • swan song
    • Martyr
    • Maame
    • Yellowface
    • North Woods