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10 Books We’re Looking Forward to in January

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Every month, librarians from around the country pick the top ten new books they’d most like to share with readers. The results are published on LibraryReads.org. One of the goals of LibraryReads is to highlight the important role public libraries play in building buzz for new books and new authors. Click through to read more about what new and upcoming books librarians consider buzzworthy this month. The top ten titles are:

  1. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley
  2. A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith
  3. Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
  4. The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin
  5. A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World by Rachel Cantor
  6. The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton
  7. Orfeo by Richard Powers
  8. The Kept by James Scott
  9. Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
  10. The First True Lie by Marina Mander

10 Books We’re Looking Forward to in December

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Every month, librarians from around the country pick the top ten new books they’d most like to share with readers. The results are published on LibraryReads.org. One of the goals of LibraryReads is to highlight the important role public libraries play in building buzz for new books and new authors. Click through to read more about what new and upcoming books librarians consider buzzworthy this month. The top ten titles are:

  1. No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean
  2. The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol
  3. Vatican Waltz by Roland Merullo
  4. How to Run with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
  5. The Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani
  6. The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, & a Family Secret by Catherine Bailey
  7. Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
  8. My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel
  9. The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
  10. Innocence by Dean Koontz

Librarians Pick The Top Ten New Books for November

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Every month, librarians from around the country pick the top ten new books they’d most like to share with readers. The results are published on LibraryReads.org. One of the goals of LibraryReads is to highlight the important role public libraries play in building buzz for new books and new authors. So click through to read more about what new and upcoming books librarians consider buzzworthy this month…

  1. Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

  2. Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming

  3. The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy

  4. Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson

  5. The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan

  6. Lies You Wanted To Hear by James Whitfield Thomson

  7. Parasite by Mira Grant

  8. The Raven’s Eye by Barry Maitland

  9. Death of a Nightingale by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis

  10. The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P. S. Duffy

10 Books we’re looking forward to in October

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LibraryReads.org is a new online endeavor designed to let librarians spread the word about the books they’re most excited about. Each month librarians from around the country nominate new and upcoming titles they’d most like to share with readers. Who better to recommend your next read?

One of the goals of LibraryReads is to highlight the important role public libraries play in building buzz for new books and new authors. So click through to read more about what new and upcoming books librarians consider buzzworthy this month…

  1. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

  2. Longbourn  by Jo Baker

  3. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

  4. Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois

  5. Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgeway

  6. The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul & Andrea Curtis

  7. We Are Water by Wally Lamb

  8. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

  9. The Tilted World by Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennell

  10. Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town by Mirta Ojito

Books we’re looking forward to in September

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LibraryReads.org is a new online endeavor designed to let librarians spread the word about  books they’re most excited about.

One of the goals of LibraryReads is to highlight the important role public libraries play in building buzz for new books and new authors. So click through to read more about what upcoming books librarians consider buzzworthy…

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

Help for the Haunted by John Searles

The Returned by Jason Mott

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Margot by Jillian Cantor

Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

A House in the Sky  by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett