2023 Book Recommendations

Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay

By Cyndie Spiegel

Sons of Baseball: Growing Up with a Major League Dad

By Mark Braff, forward by Cal Ripken, Jr

Solito: A Memoir

By Javier Zamora

I'm Glad My Mom Died

By Jennette McCurdy

Your Difference is Your Strength: A Guide to Accepting Yourself - for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Out of Place

By Kris Ferraro, forward by Tama Kieves

Hygge: Discovering the Danish Art of Happiness

By Olivia Telford

Study Like a Champ: A Psychology-Based Guide to "Grade A" Study Habits

By Regan A.R. Gurung & John Dunlosky

10-Minute Mindfulness: 71 Simple Habits for Living in the Present Moment

By S.J.Scott & Barrie Davenport

Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways

By Sarah Stein Greenberg

Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

By Sheila Johnson

The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

By Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired)

Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel

By Gena Cox

Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created

Edited by Laura Miller

Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth

By Catherine McIlwaine

The Riddles of Harry Potter: Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests

By Shira Wolosky

Step into Narnia: A Journey Through The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

By E. J. Kirk

Mommy's Hair is Everywhere!

By Radwa Ali and Christy Venarchick

Something, Someday

By Amanda Gorman and Christian Robinson

They Call Me Brave: A Children's Book About Cancer

By Shane Autumn Nebbia

Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote

By Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts Catalog Goodreads

Let Us Descend: A Novel

By Jesmyn Ward

Demon Copperhead: A Novel

By Barbara Kingsolver

Horse: A Novel

By Geraldine Brooks

Take My Hand: A Novel

By Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Black Panther & The Crew: We Are the Streets

By Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yona Harvey, and Butch Guice

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8

By Joss Whedon, Brian Vaughan, and Georges Jeanty

A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One

By George R. R. Martin

The Walking Dead: Compendium One

By Robert Kirkland, Charles Adlard, Tony Moore, and Cliff Rathburn

I'm the Girl

By Courtney Summers

Gilded

By Marissa Meyer

The Last Cuentista

By Donna Barba Higuera

Children of Blood and Bone

By Tomi Adeyemi

Reminders of Him: A Novel

By Colleen Hoover

Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

Edited by Saundra Mitchell

Girl Crushed

By Katie Heaney

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

By Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Outsider: A Novel

By Stephen King

The Institute: A Novel

By Stephen King

Through the Woods: Stories

By Emily Carroll

My Favorite Thing is Monsters

By Emil Ferris

Wonderland: An Anthology of Works Inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane

The Testaments

By Margaret Atwood

I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture

By A.D. Jameson

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 16 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends

Edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman

Ms. Marvel

By G. Willow Wilson et. al.

A Man Called Ove: A Novel

By Fredrik Backman

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

By Stephanie Land, forward by Barbara Ehrenreich

It Ends with Us: A Novel

By Colleen Hoover

Above Ground: Poems

By Clint Smith

Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts

By J. Drew Lanham

What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

By Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Poems

By Franny Choi

Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis

Edited by Philip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

By Mark Bittman

Everyday Grand: Soulful Recipes for Celebrating Life's Big and Small Moments

By Jocelyn Delk Adams and Olga Massov

Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family

By Madhushree Ghosh

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

By Ben Rhodes

How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them

By Barbara F. Walter

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By Margaret A. Burnham

On Juneteenth

By Annette Gordon-Reed

Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm

By Susan Crawford, forward by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz

The Climate Book

Edited by Greta Thunberg

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World

By Oliver Milman

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

Poverty, by America

By Matthew Desmond

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

By Ruha Benjamin

Gendered Places: The Landscape of Local Gender Norms across the United States

By William J. Scarborough

The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever

By Jack Curry

Intelligent Influence in Baseball: Amazing Stories of Influence, Success and Failure

By Dr. Dale Caldwell and Robert V. Hurte Jr

Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers

By Nicholas Smith

Lebron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete

By Brian Windhorst

Plant-Based Sports Nutrition: Expert Fueling Strategies for Training, Recovery, and Performance

By D. Enette Larson-Meyer and Matt Ruscigno

Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health, 2nd ed

By Bon Ku and Ellen Lupton

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It

By Dr. Alyson J. McGregor

Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It

By Shantanu Nundy

The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 75 Books to Cure What Ails You

By Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin

The Ramped-Up Read Aloud: What to Notice as You Turn the Page

By Maria Walther

How to Raise a Reader

By Pamela Paul and Maria Russo

High Attention Reading: Preparing Students for Independent Reading of Informational Text

By Elizabeth Hale

The Woman in Me

By Britney Spears

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By James McBride

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

By Kevin Hazzard

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate, 2nd ed.

By Jeannie Gainsburg

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