Posts by Elizabeth Waters

Are you watching the Women’s World Cup? To keep up the international mood between matches, we have reading suggestions featuring women authors from the 24 countries competing in the 2019 Women’s World Cup. Some teams may have been eliminated, but our Literary World Cup teams are still going strong!

Every month at our Open Book Hour, Mid-Manhattan readers meet to trade fiction and nonfiction book recommendations. Today, we’d like to share their picks from the past few months with you.

We don't usually have conversations in code at the Library, but we do love Dewey Decimal call numbers. Did you wake up this morning with some 641.3373? Spend any time doing 746.46 last weekend? Come check out our favorite numbers!

What's your favorite type of scary story? Creepy true crime? Ghoulish ghost stories? See what NYPL patrons picked from the latest Open Book Hour.

Not sure who to root for in the 2018 FIFA World Cup? How about selecting and celebrating your favorite international authors? It makes for some interesting head-to-head matchups.

At the latest Open Book Hour at the Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd Street, attendees shared their favorite graphic novels and comic books. Here's the list.

From the immigrant experience to the history of CBGB, our latest Open Book Hour revealed a diverse set of recommendations.

At the beginning of this year, our Open Book Hour readers here at the Mid-Manhattan Library were engrossed in some serious nonfiction. Then, at our most recent Open Book Hour meeting, when we asked for reading recommendations "straight from the heart," our patrons shared mostly fiction favorites instead, from cozy animal tales to speculative fiction, ranging in style from whimsical to chilling. Notable recommendations are below, in this month's Patron Picks Reading 

What are some NYPL patrons currently reading? Here's the latest list from patrons at the Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd Street.

Delicious recipes, dysfunctional families, high stakes feuds... Check out these patron picks!

Classic self-help books, engaging fiction, 18th-century American history, and Jane Austen were some of the topics we discussed at our last Open Book Night, when the theme was “liberty and happiness.”

Epic journeys by ship and by train, stories of survival in wartime, and elephants were some of the topics we discussed at last month’s Open Book Night. We asked readers to share a reading journey with us, including books about travel and transportation, favorite armchair adventures, or virtual voyages.

This month we checked out fiction bestsellers in Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Peru, and Taiwan and found a mixture of novels by local authors, translations of international bestsellers, and some poetry.

Here are some vivid representations of the New York immigrant experience in fiction, as well as a few memoirs and biographies of New Yorkers past and present, who arrived here from all over the world and made their mark on our city.

Are you interested in what people around the world are reading? Travel the bestseller lists with us! This month we checked out bestsellers in Colombia, Egypt, Greece, Ireland, and Malaysia.

Bleak, dark, grimly realistic, morally and psychologically complex with a dash of gallows humor. Scandinavian Noir has some serious competition from its Irish cousin. Check out some Irish crime writers this St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

Our theme this month was “Ain’t Nothin’ but a Love Thang”, and we asked readers to share books they love, books about love, and books about things they love.

Which fiction titles topped the charts around the world last year? We looked at bestseller lists for 2016 from nine other countries.

Last month when we gathered for Open Book Night, our theme was food and celebration. Oysters came up several times as well as some fictional meals that were far from celebratory. We heard about favorite cookbooks and food memoirs and a few titles readers really enjoyed that had little to do with food but fit the mood.