Announcing the September 2024 LibraryReads List

By Rachel Tran | August 15 2024 | News LibraryReads

Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the September 2024 LibraryReads Top Ten List.

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For more information about the program, or to learn how to vote for your favorite upcoming books, visit LibraryReads.org. And, don’t forget, voting for the October LibraryReads list ends 9/1!

Check out which October titles we’re loving.

TOP TEN LIST

Colored Television

A Novel

Danzy Senna

A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex

Fiction > Literary Fiction

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A Dark and Drowning Tide

A Novel

Allison Saft

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic.

Fiction > Fantasy > Fairy Tales

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A Kid from Marlboro Road

A Novel

Edward Burns

An Irish-American family comes to life through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy in this debut novel by actor-filmmaker Ed Burns. Immigrants and storytellers, lilting voices and Long Island moxie are all part of this colorful Irish-Catholic community at the end of the 1970s.

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An Academy for Liars

Alexis Henderson

A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.

Fiction > Paranormal Fiction

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The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

C. M. Waggoner

A librarian with a knack for solving murders soon realizes there is something supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery.

Fiction > Fantasy > Contemporary Fantasy
Fiction > Paranormal Fiction

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HALL OF FAME

So Thirsty

Rachel Harrison

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep.

Fiction > Gothic & Horror

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The Life Impossible

A Novel

Matt Haig

“In Haig’s sure hands, magic comes to breathtaking life.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A wry and tender love-letter to the best of being human.” —Benedict CumberbatchThe remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”

Fiction > Literary Fiction
Fiction > Women's Fiction

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We Solve Murders

A Novel

Richard Osman

“Madcap fun, with an entertaining new cast of characters and Osman’s trademark wit. Delightful!” —Shari LapenaFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Series

Fiction > Mystery & Thriller > Cozy Mystery

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?

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Death at the Sign of the Rook

A Jackson Brodie Book

Kate Atkinson

THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER (SUNDAY TIMES, UK) • The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Times) private eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time “How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson.”–Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus Novels

Fiction > Literary Fiction
Fiction > Mystery & Thriller > Crime Fiction
Fiction > Mystery & Thriller > Suspense & Thriller

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Tell Me Everything

A Novel

Elizabeth Strout

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

Fiction > Literary Fiction

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Buried Deep and Other Stories

Naomi Novik

A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the wide-ranging imagination of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance Trilogy, including a sneak peek at the world where her next major project will be set.

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