If you're looking for something fresh to read, our librarians and staff offer dozens of their favorites for you to "fall back" on. You can request physical copies to be delivered to your local branch, or get digital copies anytime, anywhere. 

And if late fees were keeping you away, now is a great time to get reacquainted. No More Late Fines, Ever!

Below is a small sampling—you can find them all (over 100!) on our Staff Picks Page.

For Adults

Oh You Robot Saints! by Rebecca Morgan Frank

Poetry and robots, together at last. Rebecca Morgan Frank uses historical automatons to craft a world that is undeniably human in its grief, humor, and musicality.
– Liz Baldwin

We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile

This history of Black land ownership and farming—complete with lush photography—is a love letter from the author of Queen Sugar.
– Michael Maxwell

Fight Night by Miriam Toews

Nobody writes books like Miriam Toews—you feel her characters down to the bone, and she can straddle the horrific to the humorous across a single sentence. Fight Night is a hymn to women fighting for themselves and their families, told alternatingly between the irrepressible 9-year-old Swiv and her unbelievable Grandma.
– Aidan Flax-Clark

56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

A locked room thriller...pandemic style! Two detectives discover a decomposing body in a Dublin apartment during lockdown. Has someone committed the perfect crime?
– Tabrizia Jones

For Teens

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Get Out meets Gossip Girl, this is one tantalizing thriller that is both suspenseful and socially relevant that dives into social issues through a twisty narrative.
– Tabrizia Jones

Forestborn by Elayne Audrey Becker

In this classic high fantasy, Rora, a shapeshifter working as a spy for her king, along with her brother Helos, must escort Prince Weslyn to a deadly wild forest in order to secure a cure for the new magical disease afflicting the king's youngest son, Rora's best friend.
– Alex Kohn

Where I Belong by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

Guatemalan-American Millie decides how to use her voice in the face of racism, violence against her family, and the efforts of friends and her mother's politician employer to paint her as a "deserving" immigrant in this quick, compelling and thought-provoking read.
– Best Books Selection Committee

The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver

When Liam Cooper's older brother dies in a hit and run car accident, it feels like everything falls apart. Liam starts to struggle with his schoolwork, issues with their friend group, and his own grieving parents. Raw, honest, and heartbreakingly realistic.
– Alex Kohn

For Kids

Dinosaur Surprise by Agnese Baruzzi

Not your average lift-the-flap, dinosaur-centric board book, this sturdy tome features a variety of familiar animals that become rather obscure dinos when each page is extended.
– Brian Stokes

Zombelina by Kristyn Crow and Molly Idle

She puts the "eeeee!" in "ballerina." We follow Zombelina, in rhyme, as she practices in her cobwebbed attic and as she performs to a stunned audience. Dancing is her self-expression and her family of zombies is very proud.
– Laura Stein

Small Spaces by Catherine Arden

If you're looking for an eerie ghost story series to kick off your Halloween season, look no further! When Ollie's class trip strands them on a local farm with a haunted history, looming scarecrows grow restless as the day turns to night...
– Alessandra Affinito

Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus, illustrations by S.M. Vidaurri

In Vichy France, a group of teens forge identification papers, carry messages for the Resistance, and smuggle Jewish refugees into Switzerland, all under the suspicious eyes of the National Police and German troops.
– Sue Yee