WPL Book Blog
Indie Next: May 2018
Here are some of the featured titles on the Indie Next List for May 2018. Click on a cover to place a hold, or click here to view the full annotated list.
Library Reads: May 2018
Here are the featured titles from the April 2018 edition of the Library Reads list! Click on a cover to place a hold! Happy reading! —Katie, Adult Reference
Read Harder 2018: A Children’s Classic Published Before 1980
This week’s Read Harder challenge is a throwback to childhood: readers are asked to select a children’s classic published before 1980. There are so many wonderful children’s books available, so we tried to narrow the list down a little bit for this post. We also have an extended list on our website – just find […]
Celebrate National Audiobook Month!
There’s no better way to kick off summer vacation (and summer reading season!) than with a great audiobook. We’ll have a display of our favorite audiobooks up through the end of the month, but we also thought it would be fun to feature some of our staff audio picks on the blog as well. Check […]
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month!
Every June, we spend extra time celebrating the LGBTQ+ authors and stories in our collection in honor of Pride Month, and this year is no exception. We have temporarily replaced our ongoing Staff Picks display with a LGBTQ+ Pride display, which will be up for the rest of the month, and we’ll be sharing resources […]
Read Harder 2018: A Romance By or About a Person of Color
This week’s Read Harder challenge asks readers to select a romance novel that is written by, or about, a person of color. While there are many in our collection, here are just a few to get started. We also have an extended list on our website – just find the Read Harder 2018 tab and […]
Novels With Unreliable Narrators
Nowadays, you’d be hard pressed to pick up a mystery novel that didn’t feature an unreliable narrator – or several! Unreliable narrators are exactly as they sound – story narrators who may or may not be telling the truth. This could be due to the character’s personality, mind-altering substances, mental illness, memory loss, or the […]
Indie Next: April 2018
Here are some of the featured titles on the Indie Next List for April 2018. Click on a cover to place a hold, or click here to view the full annotated list. […]
International Mysteries
No matter where you are in the world, there’s always a mystery to solve. International mysteries let readers explore new cultures and continents, where concepts of crime and justice aren’t always the same as they are in the United States. We posted a list of international crime novels previously on the blog, but it’s been […]
May is Mystery Month!
Booklist, a favorite book reviewing resource for librarians, has designated May as its official Mystery Month, and we all get to benefit! All month long, Booklist and its blog The Booklist Reader are hard at work promoting new mysteries, backlist mysteries, crime TV shows, favorite book series, and more. If you’re a mystery reader, this […]