From the AuthorWhat We're Reading

Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, says thank you to librarians for their support for her new novel and a June LibraryReads pick CITY OF GIRLS, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don’t have to be a good girl to be a good […]

From the AuthorWhat We're Reading

The Lager Queen of Minnesota is a novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate, and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. Below, watch as J. Ryan Stradal thanks librarians for supporting his novels and for making The Lager Queen of Minnesota a July LibraryReads pick! “An absolutely […]

From the AuthorWhat We're Reading

The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Below, watch as Mona Awad discusses her love of libraries. “We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn’t we?” Samantha Heather Mackey […]

From the AuthorWhat We're Reading

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes “a magnum opus . . . a story about survival that’s not just about you and me, but all of us, together” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). […]

What We're Reading

Julia London, author of The Charmer in Chaps, says thank you to librarians for all that they do and shares her love for libraries in the video below. Learn more about her new book here! Cimarron County knows the youngest son of the fabled Prince family as a womanizing hell-raiser, but Luca has changed and […]

From the Author

In the video below, bestselling author David Bell discusses how much he enjoys doing author events at libraries and thanks librarians for making his novel Somebody’s Daughter a July 2018 LibraryReads pick! Learn more about Bell’s new novel Layover below. In Layover, a high-concept psychological suspense novel, a chance meeting with a woman in an airport sends a man on […]

From the AuthorWhat We're Reading

From the #1 international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Velvet Hours comes an emotionally charged story about a mother’s love, a teacher’s promise, and a child’s heart. In the video below, Alyson Richman shares how libraries shaped the writer she is today. Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an […]

Author Letter

The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. Below, author Anissa Gray talks about her love for libraries. The Butler family has had their share of trials—as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest—but […]