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Best Books of 2024 (so far)

  • Fiction
    • Margo's got money troubles
    • James
    • Martyr
    • Rejection
    • God Bless You Otis Spunkmeyer
    • Intermezzo
    • by the fire we carry
    • Anita de Monte Laughs Last
    • All Fours
    • John Lewis
    • When the Clock Broke
    • The Barn
    • The Sequel
    • Scaffolding
    • Be Ready When the Luck Happens
    • Kingmaker
    • Playground

Boards, Breads, & Sweets

Tis the season for shareable food!

  • Library material
    • around the board
    • share
    • the art of the board
    • boards & spreads
    • hot cocoa bombs
    • boards: stylish spreads
    • bakery school
    • bittman bread
    • bakerita
    • eaasy bread
    • baking artisan bread with natural starters
    • the best of artisan bread in 5 minutes a day
    • bread on the table
    • the vintage baker
    • bread head
    • wintersweet
    • baked occasions
    • beekman 1802 heirloom dessert cookbook
    • sweet enough
    • what's for dessert
    • gateau
    • american cookie
    • peter callahan's party food
    • make your own party
    • martha stewarts appetizers

150 Years of Impressionism

  • Nonfiction
    • Renoir
    • The painted girls
    • Claude & Camille
    • I always loved you
    • Luncheon of the boating party
    • Public parks, private gardens
    • American impressionism
    • Birth of Impressionism
    • Mad enchantment
    • The impressionists
    • The Impressionists Monet
    • The great book of French Impressionism

Cozy Fantasy & Sci-Fi

  • Nonfiction
    • Half a soul
    • Legends and lattes
    • Emily Wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries
    • Can't Spell Treason Without Tea
    • Under the Whispering Door
    • Psalm for the Wild-Built
    • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
    • A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking
    • Stardust
    • bookshops and bonedust
    • 24 hour bookstore
    • The cat who saved books
    • Garden spells
    • Howl's Moving Castle
    • I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons
    • Cascade Failure
    • The undermining of Twyla and Frank
    • The starless sea

Family Drama

  • materials
    • american beauty
    • americans S1
    • animal kingdom S1
    • arrested development S1
    • atonement
    • beasts of the southern wild
    • belfast
    • big sick
    • bloodline
    • boyhood
    • the crown S1
    • durrells in corfu S1
    • 1883
    • everything everywhere all at once
    • farewell
    • fences
    • florida project
    • four good days
    • friday night lights S1
    • game of thrones S1
    • gilmore girls S1
    • godfather
    • goodnight mommy
    • haunting of bly manor
    • hearts beat loud
    • hereditary
    • if beale street could talk
    • knives out
    • lion
    • little women
    • man called otto
    • minari
    • moonlight
    • 1923
    • parenthood
    • pursuit of happyness
    • the queen
    • rebecca
    • roma
    • royal tenenbaums
    • schitt's creek S1
    • shameless S7
    • shoplifters
    • six feet under S1
    • sopranos S1
    • succession S1
    • this is us S1
    • to sleep with anger
    • umbrella academy S1

New York Times Bestsellers

Updated Monday, November 18

  • Fiction & Nonfiction Hardcovers
    • AF the women kristin hannah
    • AF iron flame rebecca yarros
    • AF counting miracles nicholas sparks
    • AF intermezzo sally rooney
    • ANF be ready when the luck happens
    • ANF the message ta-nehisi coates
    • ANF revenge of the tipping point gladwell
    • ANF melania
    • ANF from here to the great unknown
    • AF the waiting connelly
    • ANF war bob woodward
    • ANF framed john grisham
    • AF in too deep
    • ANF patriot alexei navalny
    • ANF confronting the presidents
    • AF the grey wolf louise penny
    • AF throne of secrets maniscalco
    • AF the blue hour paula hawkins
    • AF blood over bright haven wang
    • ANF the anxious generation haidt

Books & Beyond - Reading & Writing

The next Books & Beyond meeting is Tuesday, November 19th at 6:30pm.  The topics up for discussion are reading and writing. Fiction and film are also encouraged!

  • bab widget
    • pleasures of reading in an age of distraction
    • the well educated mind
    • the art of mindful reading
    • ten years in the tub
    • the year of reading dangerously
    • read aloud factor
    • bringing up bookmonsters
    • the enchanted hour
    • the book whisperer
    • word by word
    • how to read now
    • reader come home
    • the art of reading
    • eats shoots and leaves
    • what to read when
    • how to raise a reader
    • creating reading rainbow
    • read harder
    • literary ladies' guide to the writing life
    • the right to write
    • reading like a writer
    • write for your life
    • still writing
    • the art of x-ray reading
    • voice first
    • why we write about ourselves
    • write for your life
    • yours truly
    • be a poet
    • wonderbook
    • burn this book
    • by the book
    • in the margins
    • the novel cure
    • guilty knowledge, guilty pleasure
    • on writing
    • the book lover
    • a swim in a pond in the rain
    • last bookshop of the world
    • the writing life
    • on writing
    • a million miles in a thousand years
    • how to read literature like a professor

MB Listens - Inclusion & Diversity

  • Fiction
    • Haben
    • In a Different Key
    • What's Your Pronoun?
    • Evicted
    • So You Want to Talk About Race
    • Biased
    • How to fight anti-Semitism
    • The Black Church
    • Good without God
    • Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century
    • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

Staff Picks

  • Staff Picks
    • The dry heart
    • The Biography of X
    • The Summer Book
    • Didn't Nobody
    • mad honey
    • our wives under the sea
    • room
    • my best friend's exorcism
    • the butcher and the wren
    • lessons in chemistry
    • how to sell a haunted house
    • horse
    • southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
    • Eastbound
    • Our Missing Hearts
    • Yerba Buena
    • Somebody's Daughter
    • Wash Day Diaries
    • What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
    • Firekeeper's Daughter
    • The Bandit Queens
    • Demon Copperhead
    • The Personal Librarian
    • Horse
    • The Spite House
    • O Caledonia
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • The last tale of the flower bride
    • In the Lives of Puppets
    • Fourth wing
    • Reckless Girls
    • A Place to Land
    • The Light Always Breaks
    • An Immense World
    • The Things We Cannot Say
    • The Wager
    • Afternoons with Harper Lee
    • Certain American States
    • absolution
    • Edith Holler
    • The Marquise of O
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's Pick
    • Holley's Pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's Pick
    • Holley's Pick
    • Holley's Pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Holley's pick
    • Neighbors
    • Klara and the Sun

Fresh Book Club Picks

  • Nonfiction
    • Chain-gang all-stars 
    • whalebone theatre
    • other birds
    • motherthing
    • the hole
    • 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
    • Remarkably bright creatures
    • The Celebrants
    • haven
    • city on fire
    • firekeeper's daughter
    • the vanishing half
    • the bear
    • The sweetness of water 
    • the reading list
    • dear mrs bird
    • What are you going through
    • I'm glad my mom died
    • Hello beautiful
    • Tom Lake
    • Maame
    • Yellowface
    • North Woods