Celebrate Libraries and Reading!

Celebrate National Library Card Sign-Up Month! Read stories that feature librarians or take place in a library. These books have a surprising amount of action and drama, especially for a setting that is usually associated with quiet!

Updated August 27, 2025
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St. Lucie County Library System
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The underground library
Ryan, Jennifer
Paper Book
When the Blitz threatens the heart of a London neighbourhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to keep their community together in this heartwarming novel from the author of The Kitchen Front. On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it...
The library of borrowed hearts
Gilmore, Lucy (Romance fiction writer) author.
Paper Book
Two young lovers. Sixty long years. One bookish mystery worth solving. Librarian Chloe Sampson has been struggling- to take care of her three younger siblings, to find herself, to make ends meet. She's just about at the end of her rope when she stumbles across a rare edition of a book...
The woman in the library a novel
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book
The finders keepers library
Rains, Annie
Paper Book
A USA Today Bestselling Author Love in Bloom (Book 1) Savannah Collins has no job, no relationship, and no place to live. She heads to North Carolina, to spend the summer with her Aunt Eleanor, a retired librarian. Her aunt shares her love of literature with the Finders...
The librarian of burned books : a novel
Labuskes, Brianna
Paper Book
For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. <...
The last library
Sampson, Freya
Paper Book
You can tell a lot about a person from the library books they borrow...
How can I help you
Sims, Laura
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly * CrimeReads * Book Riot A LibraryReads Pick The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic...

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