Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the March 2016* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due January 20! Click here for the full list of 2016 deadlines. LUST & WONDER by Augusten Burroughs “Augusten Burroughs is back! Longtime fans of the memoirist are going to be over the moon with this new work and with […]
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THE THINGS WE KEEP & ORNAMENTS OF DEATH are January 2016 LibraryReads Picks
FANTASTIC NEWS! Macmillan has two books on the January 2016 LibraryReads list! Coming in at #7 is THE THINGS WE KEEP by Sally Hepworth. Librarians across the country are gushing over this novel reminiscent of Nicholas Sparks’s THE NOTEBOOK and Lisa Genova’s STILL ALICE about a 38-year-old woman with early onset Alzheimer’s who falls in […]
Louise Penny & Jenny Lawson are LibraryReads 2015 “Favorite of Favorites”
We love them and you do, too: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny (#4) and FURIOUSLY HAPPY by Jenny Lawson (#7) are LibraryReads 2015 “Favorite of Favorites!” Thank you for voting for them and remember, they love you, too (see exhibits A & B). Need more library list love? Count down your top […]
For Your Consideration: February 2016 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the February 2016* LibraryReads list! Nominations are due December 20! Click here for the full list of 2016 deadlines. THE HEART by Maylis De Kerangal Two starred reviews for this audacious novel about the twenty-four hours surrounding a heart transplant told in multiple perspectives. “…the writing is […]
Help Choose the LibraryReads 2015 “Favorite of Favorites” List
The long list has been whittled down to 25 titles and you get to vote again to determine the ultimate LibraryReads 2015 “Favorite of Favorites!” Macmillan titles still in the running include: A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC by V.E. Schwab FIRST FROST by Sarah Addison Allen FURIOUSLY HAPPY by Jenny Lawson THE BOOK OF SPECULATION […]
A WILD SWAN lands on the November 2015 LibraryReads List!
FANTASTIC NEWS! A WILD SWAN by Michael Cunningham and illustrated by Yuko Shimizu is the #10 pick on the November 2015 LibraryReads list! In A WILD SWAN, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder are transformed by […]
For Your Consideration: December 2015 AND January 2016 LibraryReads Titles
The 2015 Favorite of Favorites voting is happening now, but it’s never too early to download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the combined December 2015/January 2016* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due November 20! Click here for the full list of 2016 deadlines. THE THINGS WE KEEP by Sally Hepworth Librarians are gushing over this […]
LibraryReads 2016 Voting Deadlines
We know you’re busy choosing your 2015 LibraryReads “Favorite of Favorites,” but it’s never too early to think about the next monthly list. Here are the 2016 LibraryReads monthly list nomination deadlines: Nominations for January 2016 LibraryReads list titles (this includes December 2015 AND January 2016 titles) are due November 20, 2015 Nominations for February […]
LibraryReads 2015 “Favorite of Favorites” Voting Now Open
Once again, it’s time to choose your favorite 2015 LibraryReads titles! LibraryReads is celebrating their second year by having library staff vote on their favorites from the October 2014 through September 2015 lists. (You may vote even if you’ve never nominated a title, and no Edelweiss or NetGalley account is needed.) Starting Thursday, September 17, […]
IN BITTER CHILL hits the October 2015 LibraryReads List!
FANTASTIC NEWS! Sarah Ward’s debut novel, IN BITTER CHILL, is the #8 pick on the October 2015 LibraryReads list! Perfect for fans of Sharon Bolton and Deborah Crombie, this story of loss and family secrets involves a present-day murder that may just be linked to a cold case. Derbyshire, 1978: a small town in the […]