Adult – What We’re Reading

Recommendations from Adult & Teen Services staff

Addictive Feel-Good Fiction To Read In March

Check out these Ebooks and Eaudiobooks on HOOPLA and LIBBY!

HOOPLA
What You are Looking for Is in the Library / Michiko Aoyama
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian Sayuri Komachi. Sayuri is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it….

Illustrated image in block colors of 8 women with text "Women's History Month"

March is  Women’s History Month! Explore the moments that have shaped women’s equality in the books below.

Fiction

FICTION CHIAVERINI
Switchboard soldiers : a novel / Jennifer Chiaverini
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military,…

Magnificent mushrooms and fabulous fungi. Image of a patch of mushrooms and decorative reads.

Foraging for a good book? Learn about mushrooms and fungi through this carefully-cultivated list!

579.5 BIE

In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms / Doug Bierend

In Search of Mycotopia, Doug Bierend introduces us to an incredible, essential, and oft-overlooked kingdom of life—fungi—and all the potential it holds for our future,…

One story, twenty-four hours. Image of a clock face above an open book.

Fiction titles that tell a story over the course of a single day (or night).

FICTION CUNNINGHAM

The Hours / Michael Cunningham

The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It is a passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance,…

Ebooks and eaudiobooks by black authors

Ebooks and Eaudiobooks

HOOPLA
The List / Yomi Adegoke
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in one month’s time. Young, beautiful, and successful – she and her fiancé Michael are considered the “couple goals” of their social network and seem to have it all….