LibGuides: Book Recommendations: Books about Libraries, Librarians, Bookshops and Reading!

New in 2024!

The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

A librarian with a knack for solving murders soon realizes there is something supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery. Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies—and solving murders. But she's concerned by just how many killers she's had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count...but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths is unnatural.

September 2024

The Book Swap
A story of second chances and new beginnings, this is a love letter to books—and a love
letter to life.

September 2024

The Booklover's Library

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together, by the bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London.

October 2024

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
ISBN: 9780063348691
Publication Date: 2024 June
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books—none of which she's actually read. To replace the "pornographic" books she's challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she's sure the town's readers need.
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
ISBN: 9781668008980
Publication Date: 2024 April
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild destroyed French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen—children’s libraries...
The Titanic Survivors Book Club by Timothy Schaffert
ISBN: 9780385549158
Publication Date: 2024 April
For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line, his job was to curate the ship’s second-class library. But the day the Titanic set sail he was left stranded at the dock.
After the ship’s sinking, Yorick takes this twist of fate as a sign to follow his lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. Soon after, he receives an invitation to a secret society of survivors where he encounters other ticket holders who didn’t board the ship.
The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
ISBN: 9780593500385
Publication Date: 2024 March
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies ' Choir. When the new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown, finds that Bethnal Green Library isn't the bustling hub she is expecting, she becomes determined to breathe life back into it. But can she show the men in charge that a woman is up to the task of running the library, especially when a confrontation with her past threatens to derail her?

A Reading List

Books about Libraries, Librarians, Reading..and well, books!
Here are a few titles to get you started!

The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
ISBN: 9781982131890
Publication Date: 2020
The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
ISBN: 9780593355657
Publication Date: 2021
The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
ISBN: 9780062914095
Publication Date: 2020
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
ISBN: 9780008609214
Publication Date: 2023
Murder at the Merton Library by Andrea Penrose
ISBN: 9781496739933
Publication Date: 2023
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
ISBN: 9781982134198
Publication Date: 2021
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict; Victoria Christopher Murray
ISBN: 9780593101537
Publication Date: 2021
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
ISBN: 9781668011836
Publication Date: 2023

The Kentucky Pack Horse Librarians

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
ISBN: 9780399562488
Publication Date: 2019
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
ISBN: 9781492671527
Publication Date: 2019
The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
ISBN: 9781728242590
Publication Date: 2022

And some non-fiction....

This Book Is Overdue! by Marilyn Johnson
ISBN: 9780061431609
Publication Date: 2010
Shelf Life by Nadia Wassef
ISBN: 9780374600181
Publication Date: 2021
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
ISBN: 9781476740188
Publication Date: 2018

Library Lover's Mystery Series

Check out his cozy mystery series from Jenn McKinlay for some fun and light reading!
Library Lover's Mystery Series follows Lindsey Norris, who works as director of the Briar Creek Public Library.

Here are the Library Lover’s Mysteries books in order:

Books Can Be Deceiving (2011)
Due or Die (2012)
Book, Line and Sinker (2012)
Read It and Weep (2013)
On Borrowed Time (2014)
A Likely Story (2015)
Better Late Than Never (2016)
Death in the Stacks (2017)

Influential Librarian

Tracie D. Hall, ALA Exec. Director
Librarians are definitely rock stars, and now one has been named one of the most influential people in the world!

Time has named American Library Association (ALA) Executive Director Tracie D. Hall to the 2023 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Hall is the 10th executive director of ALA and the first Black woman to lead the organization in its nearly 150-year history.
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