2024 Holiday Reads

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By Christian Cooper

King: A Life

By Jonathan Eig

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By Tia Levings

But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

By Sahaj Kaur Kohli

Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection

By Gregg Krech

Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation

By Paula Marantz Cohen

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By Prentis Hemphill

The Black Exec: And the Seven Myths

By Barron Witherspoon, Sr.

Creative Hustle: Blaze Your Own Path and Make Work That Matters

By Olatunde Sobomehin and Samuel Steinberg Seidel

Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual

By Jocko Willink (Retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer)

Sport Marketing

By Windy Dees, Patrick Walsh, Chad McEvoy, Stephen McKelvey

Blast Off! How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America into Space

By Suzanne Slade and Sally Wern Comport

The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States

By Alliah Agostini and Sawyer Cloud

Peacock and Sketch

By Allan Peterkin and Sandhya Prabhat

Starfish

By Lisa Fipps Catalog Goodreads

Island Queen: A Novel

By Vanessa Riley

Lessons in Chemistry

By Bonnie Garmus

North Woods: A Novel

By Daniel Mason

The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

By ReShonda Tate

American Gods

By Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Scott Hampton

Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

By Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell

Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus

By Gris Grimly, based on the work of Mary Shelley

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

By Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Maris Wicks, et. al.

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

By George M. Johnson

Gather

By Kenneth M. Cadow

Promise Boys

By Nick Brooks

Remember Us

By Jacqueline Woodson

Honey and Spice

By Bolu Babalola

Love, Theoretically: A Novel

By Ali Hazelwood

A Shot in the Dark: A Novel

By Victoria Lee

Slow Dance: A Novel

By Rainbow Rowell

Bright Young Women: A Novel

By Jessica Knoll

The Future: A Novel

By Naomi Alderman

Happiness Falls: A Novel

By Angie Kim

Mad Honey: A Novel

By Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

The Book of Elsewhere: A Novel

By Keanu Reeves and China Mieville

The Enchanted Hacienda: A Novel

By J.C. Cervantes

Family Lore: A Novel

By Elizabeth Acevedo

Weyward: A Novel

By Emilia Hart

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

By Amor Towles

Harold and the Purple Crayon

By Crockett Johnson

The Nickel Boys: A Novel

By Colson Whitehead

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

By Heather Morris

Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

Edited by Madeline Dyer

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticisms, and Minding Other People's Business

By Roxane Gay

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

By Adam Gopnik

When the Hibiscus Falls: Stories

By M. Evelina Galang

Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook

By Illyanna Maisonet

National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

By Anya Von Bremzen

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By Chris Van Tulleken

The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope

By Jose Andres

Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire

By Raymond Jonas

The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963 - 1973

By Clara Bingham

The Northwomen: Untold Stories from the Other Half of the Viking World

By Heather Pringle

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By Ned Blackhawk

Einstein: The Man and His Mind

By Gary S. Berger and Michael DiRuggiero

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By Cat Bohannon

Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World

By John Vaillant

Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By Luis Elizondo

Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

By Ben Austen

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents -- and What They Mean for America's Future

By Jean M. Twenge

The Message by

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

By Judith L. Herman

A History of Basketball in Fifteen Sneakers

By Russ Bengston

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

By Theresa Runstedtler

Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

By Katie Barnes

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By Hanif Abdurraqib

Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land

By Tamela J. Gordon

If It Sounds Like a Quack...A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

By Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's

By Karl Herrup

Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It

By Emily Kenway

Property of the Rebel Librarian

By Allison Varnes

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By Amanda Jones

Digging for Words: Jose Alberto Guterrez and the Library He Built

By Angela Burke Kunkel and Paola Escobar

Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading

By Jenae Cohn

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