My Library helpers and their colleagues have a few favorite books to share:
- Are you There God, It’s Me Margaret, by Judy Blume
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laurie R. King
- Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
- A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
- Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley
- The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
- Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
- The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, by Yuri Slezkine
- In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
- Lament for a Son, by Nicholas Wolterstorff
- The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt
- Light in August, by William Faulkner
- Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
- Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
- Magic Strings of Franki Presto, by Mitch Albom
- New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton
- Night, by Eli Wiesel
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Middle C, by William H. Gass
- The Phantom Tollbooth, by North Juster
- The Power of the Powerless, by Christopher de Vinck
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker
- The Stranger, by Albert Camus
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, by John Ralston Saul
- What Makes Sammy Run?, by Budd Schulberg
- The Winter King, by Bernard Cornwell