Staff Favorites: Wild Cards!

This list includes all our favorites that don't fit neatly into other lists -- romance, manga, nonfiction, middle grade, and more!

Updated November 26, 2025
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Staff Favorites: Wild Cards!

This list includes all our favorites that don't fit neatly into other lists -- romance, manga, nonfiction, middle grade, and more!

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Wotakoi : love is hard for otaku. 1
Fujita (Manga artist)
Paper Book
A geeky girl whose life revolves around yaoi manga and a quiet gamer boy are old friends, but when they start working in the same office, they decide to date. It's a relationship of convenience at first, but could it become something more? This manga comedy is now a hit streaming anime!
Poets Square : a memoir in thirty cats
Gustafson, Courtney
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An intimate memoir about the importance of community and care in a world that can feel impossibly broken--and a story about accidentally going viral while tending to a colony of feral cats. AN NPR AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE...
Twilight Out of Focus 1
Jyanome.
Paper Book
Second-years Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Otomo make three promises: 1) That Mao will never tell anyone that Hisashi is gay and has a boyfriend, 2) That Hisashi will never think of Mao 'in that way,' and 3) That they'll always knock before entering, in case someone is having some 'private time.' The two...
Stitch : reimagining Frankenstein
Kenny, Pádraig
Paper Book
Mexikid : en español
Martin, Pedro
Paper Book
Libro de Honor en los Premios Newbery Mejor libro para niños / Eisner Award 2024  Entre los mejores libros del 2023, de acuerdo a más de una decena de medios de prensa e instituciones de Estados Unidos. Mexikid es uno de los mejores títulos del año según...
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Miller, Kayla
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Kayla Miller comes a graphic novel about friendship and finding where you "click" in middle school, perfect for fans of Smile and Real Friends. Olive wants to get in on the act . . . . . . Any act! Olive "clicks"...
The perks of loving a wallflower
Ridley, Erica
Paper Book
Fans of Bridgerton will love this "delightful" Regency romp (Julia Quinn, New York Times bestselling author​) named one of the best romances of the year by Entertainment Weekly. As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a...
The labors of Hercules Beal
Schmidt, Gary D.
Paper Book
From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill an assignment to perform the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life--and makes discoveries about friendship, community,...
Ginseng roots : a memoir
Thompson, Craig
Paper Book
From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a new graphic memoir exploring the class divide, childhood labor, family, and our globalized world--all centered on Wisconsin's ginseng farming industry "Ginseng Roots is Thompson's most visually arresting...
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