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

Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore. She’s moving back north, to the city of her dreams—with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . .

With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, AudioFile, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.

Raise your hand if you love to talk about what you’re reading. [We see you! Us, too!] Get amazing book recs from your fellow librarians.

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Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

Check your collections for these diverse and dynamic audiobook productions!

From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedom.

With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, AudioFile, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.

“I could talk for hours about libraries—why I need them, what they provide, what threats they face—but what I’ve learned is that a librarian is the perfect main character for a novel because librarians know absolutely everything about their patrons and their town.”

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite May titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the April list ends on 3/1.

In the long-awaited first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.