Posts by Gwen Glazer

Winter is the best time for books. We're offering up a few book suggestions to help you deal with the cold and darkness in body, mind, and spirit.

Nominees for the 2020 Golden Globes were announced this week, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has picked out a bookish bunch! Read up on the originals before the awards are announced on January 5 of the new year.

Her life has inspired a wide range of material, from speculative novels to illustrated children's books to an examination of her plants.

Bruchac has been writing for over 40 years, and he’s authored dozens of picture books for children about indigenous peoples' folklore and traditional stories, as well as nonfiction, plays, mysteries, and novels for older kids, teens, and adults.

Her work is so varied and diverse that we’ve organized this where-to-start post by reader types.

We want to honor our favorite residents of the best street in New York City…how else? With books.

After you read the original, check out a few more suggested novels by the three authors—and wait for the wave of YA book-to-screen adaptations to sweep up even more books in its swelling tide.

November is Native American Heritage Month, and the perfect time to pick up recent books by and about indigenous people.

Book recommendations for the wild, wonderful characters of our favorite Halloween films—witches and non-witches alike.

Because of the genre's fast pace and compulsive readability, many readers burn through urban fiction at a breakneck speed—meaning libraries are left with empty shelves and readers have to search other sections for books that have a similar subject matter, pace, and tone.

It's October, and everyone knows what that means... time for the National Book Awards! This morning, the National Book Foundation announced this year's finalists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature.

Just as leaves turn in the fall, so do The New York Public Library’s Staff Picks, offering a new harvest of books our expert librarians recommend for kids of all ages.

Check out some of our favorite picture books for the start of the Jewish new year, and l'shana tova (happy new year) to all!

The New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens list doesn't come out until November, but the committee of YA staff members is hard at work reading as many 2019 titles as they can get their hands on. Here's some new fiction that's on their radar.

Our committee of dedicated library staff members are closing in on the finalists for our annual Best Books for Kids list! No promises about which titles will make the final cut, but check out some of the books they're debating right now.

Pura Belpré was a legend in her own time—and in ours, as well.

Twilight is coming earlier, dawn is coming later, the hot garbage smell is finally fading from the streets of Midtown Manhattan ... and that means only one thing: It's autumn in New York. With the new season comes our new round of Staff Picks— 100 titles that NYPL staff members are excited to be reading right now.

August 16 is National Roller Coaster Day (yes, really), so we asked our NYPL book experts: What’s your favorite book that’s an emotional roller coaster?

Gwen and Frank do a deep dive into the dark comedy, "Bunny" by Mona Award.