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- Hello, Doll: Inspiring Reads for Barbie Girls
- Pretty in Pink Covers
- Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
- Simplified Classics for English Language Learners
- Book of the Month Club May
- Books for Loneliness
- The Secret Lives of Animals
- Read About Rescue Animals
- Van Life
- Farewell Anne Perry
- Nurture Your Relationships
- Eat Green (plant-based/vegan/vegetarian cooking)
Featured
- Clean Reads for Adults
- Battling Burnout
- Bibliotherapy for Veterans
- Glow Up Your Space
- Road Trip!
- Shipwrecks
2023 Lists of Note
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- Adult Series Starters
- Celebrity Memoirs
- Metered Access Concurrent Use (MACU) Book Club Picks
- New and Notable Poetry
- Series Continuations and Starters
- They Call Me…Fiction with Full Names in the Titles
- Trending on BookTok
Cost Per Circ Model
- Adult Comics in CPC
- Banned Books in CPC
- Book Club Picks: Adult
- Book Club Picks: Teen
- Juvenile Family Friendly eBook
- Learn a New Language
- Newbery & Caldecott Award Winners
- Popular Audio
- Popular Spanish
- Social Justice and Anti-Racism CPC
- YA Family Friendly eBook
Book Clubs
- Barnes & Noble Book Club
- Best Best for Book Clubs 2021
- Best Bets for Book Clubs 2020 and Before
- Book of the Month Club April
- Andrew Luck Book Club
- Buzzfeed Book Club
- Book Club Reads
- Celebrity Book Clubs
- The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room
- Goop Book Club
- Mocha Girls Read
- Oprah’s Book Club
- PBS Now Read This Book Club
- Read with Jenna Book Club
- Reese Witherspoon Reads
- Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club
- Scripps National Spelling Bee’s Bookshelf
- Vox Book Club
- Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads
State/City/Regional Lists
- Arkansas Gems
- California Authors
- California Interest
- California Parks Pass
- LA Times Book Prize Finalists 2022
- Set in California
- Florida Interest
- Minnesota Authors
- Celebrate MO! Missouri’s Bicentennial
- New York Reads
- Ohio Authors
- Ohioana Book Award Winners (cumulative)
- Pacific Northwest Authors & Settings
- Paris is Always a Good Idea
- Southern Cooking
- Southern Fiction
- West Virginia Authors & Setting
Covers, Characters, and Aesthetic
- “Am I the Villain?” Villains as Main Characters
- Arthurian Legend Retellings
- Books with Artistic Covers
- Characters in Quarantine
- Cold Shoulder: Women’s Backs on Covers
- A Cottagecore Reading List
- Dark Academia
- Get Cozy: HYourygge, Niksen, Lagom, Fika, Ikigai & More
- He’s a 10, But… (books with less-than-perfect leads)
- I Read a Latte: Coffee-Centric reads
- In Someone Else’s Shoes: Body Swaps
- Look at the House on That One (covers with houses)
- Mom-Coms: Motherhood comedies
- The More People I Meet, The More I Love My Dog (dogs on cover)
- No Vacancy: Books that take place in hotels/resorts/bed & breakfasts, etc.
- Reading, But Make it Fashion
- Red, White, and Blue-Blooded: Royal Reads
- Shady Characters
- Step Right Up: Amusement parks, circuses, fairs, and carnivals
- Stop, Thief!: Bookish burglars
- This Seat Taken?: Books with chairs on the cover
- Well Dressed & Looking Stressed
In Memoriam
- Hilary Mantel
- Queen Elizabeth II
- David McCullough: America’s Biographer
- Stuart Woods
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Bell Hooks
- Gary Paulsen
- Anne Rice: Queen of Vampires
- In Memoriam: Authors we lost in 2021
- In Memoriam 2022
Reader’s Advisory Lists
Upcoming Months
June
- All Together Now (Adult/YA summer reading theme)
- All Together Now (Juv summer reading theme)
- Outdoor Pursuits
- Pride Reads
- Read with Pride (YA)
May
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
- Jewish American Heritage Month
- Long Weekend, Short Reads
- Mental Health Awareness Month
- Mother’s Day Reads
April
- Arab American Heritage Month
- Belly Laughs (kids’ humor)
- Earth Day
- Have a Laugh: Books for fans of comedy
- National Poetry Month
- That Sent Me: YA titles to make you laugh
March
- Baddies in Books (Strong YA female characters)
- Library Love (Library Week)
- Making a Difference: Women & Girls in History (juv)
- National Craft Month
- Women’s History Month
February
- Armchair Travel
- Black Joy
- Celebrate Black History Month
- Freedom to Read Week (Canada)
- Once Upon a Time…. (Disney & fairytales juv)
- Romance for EveryBODY
- You Turn My Pages (diverse romance)
- Young and In Love (YA Romance)
December & January 2023
- Down. Set. Read
- Feel Good Reads (YA)
- Frosty the Snowman’s Shelf (juv)
- Grammy Reads
- I Didn’t See THAT Coming!
- It’s Holiday Reading
- Let’s Get Weird
- Mindfulness & Meditation
- Moving on Up (self-improvement)
- Shelf Care
Evergreen Topics
- #OwnVoices
- 50 Years of Hip-Hop and Its Cultural Legacy
- Addiction and Recovery
- Adult Language Learners
- Adult New Readers
- Aging Gracefully
- ALA 2021 Reading List
- All About Ukraine
- All That Jazz
- And That’s the Tea
- Autofiction
- Backyard Visitors: Birding & animal watching at home
- Battling Sleep Problems
- Bookception: Books on books, writing, and libraries
- Books of the 90s
- Books with a Bonus: Reading group guides and more!
- Celebrating the Work of Eric Jerome Dickey
- Chocolate Makes Everything Better
- Cinematic Cookbooks (cookbooks inspired by movies/tv shows)
- Color Your World
- Comedy Fan Reads
- Coming of Age Stories
- Contagious Reads: Nonfiction/fiction about pandemics
- Cook Your Way Around the World
- Cooking for the Kitchen Novice
- Coping with Stress and Anxiety
- Dear Reader: Stories told through letters and diaries
- Fairy Circle Reads (adult & ya books featuring fairies)
- Feminist Reads
- FIFA World Cup
- Financial Literacy
- For New Plant Parents
- Found Family
- From Game to Page: Video game adaptions
- Getting to a New Normal: Post-Vaccination Life
- Greek Myth Retellings
- Guilty Pleasures
- Happy Hour at Home
- Homeschooling for Caregivers
- Homeschooling Resources for Kids & Teens
- Hot on the Left
- Hot on the Right
- “I Know What I Saw!” UFOs and Cryptids
- I’m Bored! Activity Books for Kids Stuck at Home
- An Inconvenient List: Books on climate change
- Life on Our Planet: Inspired by David Attenborough
- Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
- A List You Can’t Refuse: “The Godfather” at 50
- Literary Hugs: Books that make you feel warm & squishy
- Masks On: Fiction including the real pandemic
- Medical Inquiry: Medical books for the layperson
- Military Reads
- Mindfulness & Meditation
- Mushrooms! (fic & nf)
- Music in my Bones
- Nerdette Podcast featured titles
- Never, Never, Never Give Up
- Nonfiction that Reads like Fiction
- On the Road Again: USA travel
- The One with All the Books: A Friends Reading List
- Oscar Nominated Films Based on Books
- Oscar Nominated Films Based on Books 2023
- Page to Screen
- The Play’s the Thing
- Politically/Socially Active Poetry
- Quick Reads: eBooks and Audio to read in a day
- Reading for Runners
- Remembering the Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Resources for Dealing with Grief and Dying
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees
- Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List
- Science for the Non-Scientist
- Sea Stories
- Self-Care For the Whole Family
- Smells Like Teen Spirit: Books of the 1990s
- Social Justice & Activism (all ages)
- Spring Cleaning
- Stylish Texts: Books on fashion (fic & nf)
- Sustainable Living
- Sweeping Sagas
- Tearjerkers
- Test Prep Beyond High School
- Test Prep Guides
- Think Thrifty (upcycling, handmade gifts, budgeting, etc.)
- Tough Topics
- The Tulsa Race Massacre (all ages)
- Understanding Trauma
- Unputdownables
- Uplifting Titles
- Voting, Citizenship, and American Government (all ages)
- Women’s Health Equality and Reproductive Rights
- Women in the Workplace
2022 Lists of Note
- 2022 Oscar Nominated Films Based on Books
- 2022 Series Continuations and Starters
- BookPage 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
- Debut Fiction Authors/Titles of 2022
Top Book Lists of 2021
- CUMULATIVE Best of 2021
- NPR Best Books of 2021
- Amazon Editors’ Picks 2021
- Audiofile Best of 2021
- Barnes & Noble Best of 2021
- Best of 2021 So Far
- Bookpage Best Books of 2021
- Favorite Books of the OverDrive Staff Librarians 2021
- Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists
- Kirkus Best Fiction Books 2021
- Library Journal Best Books 2021
- New York Times Notable Books 2021
- Publishers Weekly Best of 2021
- Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021
- Time’s Must-Read Books of 2021
- Vogue’s Best Books to Read in 2021