Blog Posts by Subject: Fiction

Looking for new titles in your favorite subgenres? We've gathered a list of book bundles, from true crime to cozy mysteries to video game fiction.

Food is such an integral part of any society, so it's no wonder many stories revolve around food prep, design, and enjoyment. With our favorite food-related manga, you'll get all the drama, recipes, and limitless food possibilities. Douzo meshiagare!

Peek at the spooky picks from our last Open Book Hour at Mid-Manhattan Library, from the Monstress collection and Walking Dead comic novels to Stephen King and Agatha Christie.

Stephen King has written more than 90 novels and 200 short stories, as one of the most prolific and popular authors in modern literature. If you're ready to delve into the work of the Master of Horror, we can help! Find recommendations on his story collections, most widely read titles, and 1,000-plus-page epics.

Where are the western heroines who take after Annie Oakley or Stagecoach Mary? Well we've got them right here, with a list of our favorite western literature featuring female leads.

In the American western, men are typically lauded as heroes, or even anti-heroes, while women are often painted as either prostitutes or wholesome farm girls. In reality, women occupied much more varied roles in the Old West. Our nonfiction picks tell their stories.

Whether it's sports, tabletop or videogames, we love games of all kinds. So, we've gathered a collection of our favorite game-based manga!

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!

This recommended reading list includes classic and recent pictures books, and comics created mostly by Asian Pacific American authors and illustrators - great for young readers ranging from babies and toddlers to elementary school students.

Workplace drama is the focus of this month's patron book recommendations from the May Open Book Hour at the Mid-Manhattan Library.

You don't have to know the rules of everyone's favorite frozen sport to enjoy these steamy selections from a romance sub-genre you may not even know exists.

Whether you prefer romantic comedies, supernatural love stories, or straight-up hot-and-steamy adventures, we've got the manga recommendation for you!

With the upcoming Super Blood Wolf Moon, we’ve put together a list of recommendations based on, you guessed it, our favorite supernatural wolf-creature: the werewolf!

In the spirit of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic, A Little Princess, and National Princess Day, check our list of recommended picture books for all young princesses-in-training!

Celebrate your own princesses-in-training on November 18, with our selection of books about kind, confident, brave, true young princesses!

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, effectively and symbolically ending the Cold War. Twenty-nine years later, we're still making sense of the decades of fear and east-west divisions. One need only watch FX's The Americans to see that the Cold War is still alive and well in the American imagination. As we look back at The Fall, here are the books we'll be reading.

If you're ready for tales of terror and romance, check out our 15 choices for top YA gothic fiction novels.

Nearly every neighborhood has a "haunted house," a structure that may not appear evil at first glance but has a sordid history (that may or may not be true) attached to it. A house is supposed to be a safe space, a shelter from evil—but what do you do when the evil comes from within? From classic haunted mansions to contemporary apartment complexes, we have gathered up 13 of the best haunted house stories to make you think twice before signing a mortgage!

For centuries, the subgenre of gothic horror has been spooking readers who love bleak, inescapable landscapes and the forces of evil at work. Check out our list of 15 gothic horror favorites...