Posts by Lynn Lobash

These books on our 125 Books We Love list are flying just a bit below the radar.

These books will draw you in, excite you, and set you back on the reading path.

Curious what other New Yorkers were reading this year? Here are the top 10 checkouts systemwide for each of our three boroughs: the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island as well as the most checked out book of the year systemwide.

The New York Public Library is thrilled to announce our Best Books of 2019, a curated selection of recommended reads for kids, teens, and adults, selected by our expert librarians!

Let's face it, picture books are not just for kids.

We asked our staff of voracious readers here at NYPL to send us the titles they read and loved published between January and December 2019. The results were as diverse as our staff and collections, but these are the ten that received the greatest number of votes. Friends and readers, NYPL’s Top 10 Books of 2019.

Ever wondered if your favorite author has a TED Talk? In honor of the #TEDReads initiative and National Book Month, check out these twelve authors who have given TED Talks.

The New York Public Library's Insta Novels program was nominated for three Webby Awards.​ The Insta Novels program, created by independent advertising and creative agency Mother in New York and developed in partnership with the Library, aims to make these stories more widely available, reach new audiences, and turn a space for fleeting interactions into one for immersive reading.

This fall Warby Parker is helping to support our Early Literacy Initiative. As it turns out, they love reading as much as we do! In particular, titles featuring characters who blaze their own trail, march to the beat of their own drummer, and go their own way.

Some exceptional new nonfiction titles for teens available on shelves in local libraries everywhere.

Our experts have been busy reading all the middle school novels 2019 has to offer and here are a few they can't stop giving to kids across our three boroughs.

Picture books are amazing! I’m not sure who loves them more, kids or adults. Here are some exceptional new ones coming to a library shelf near you.

Our Best Books for Teens committee is hard at work finding great books and putting them in the hands of teens around the city. Here are a few they are excited to share.

A New York Public Library & UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Staff Picks List Honoring Voices of the Forcibly Displaced on #WorldRefugeeDay

Our Best Books for Kids committee has been busy! Here are some nonfiction titles they are shouting about from library roofs across the city.

Middle-grade fiction is on fire! There are so many new books. Luckily we have an expert staff of readers to help direct us to the cream of the crop. Here are some recently published titles they recommend.

There are so many great graphic novels for teens it is hard to keep up. Luckily, here at NYPL, we have a team of experts doing the work for us.

Kids love nonfiction. Their little brains are like sponges. They yearn for facts and stories from history. It's even better when it's presented in an engaging package.

The New York Public Library's Insta Novels program was nominated for three Webby Awards.​ The Insta Novels program, created by independent advertising and creative agency Mother in New York and developed in partnership with the Library, aims to make these stories more widely available, reach new audiences, and turn a space for fleeting interactions into one for immersive reading.