B's Favorite Books

Ever wonder what the librarians read? Check out our rotating staff picks lists! This month we're featuring Becca's favorites. In general she reads genre fiction (mostly horror), thrillers, and memoirs. Becca is likely to pick up books with LGBTQ+ themes or authors.

Updated March 7, 2024
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B's Favorite Books

Ever wonder what the librarians read? Check out our rotating staff picks lists! This month we're featuring Becca's favorites. In general she reads genre fiction (mostly horror), thrillers, and memoirs. Becca is likely to pick up books with LGBTQ+ themes or authors.

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Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience
Brown, Brené
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for...
The echo wife
Gailey, Sarah
Paper Book
Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is "a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions."--Entertainment Weekly I'm embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the...
Starling house
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick 'Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent' - Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six Step into Starling House - if you dare. Alix E. Harrow reimagines Beauty and the Beast in this...
Weyward
Hart, Emilia
Paper Book
PRE-ORDER EMILIA HART'S STUNNING NEW BOOK THE SIRENS NOW THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER OVER 700,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE As seen on BBC's BETWEEN THE COVERS 'Humming with a sly, exhilarating magic' BRIDGET COLLINS 'A much-heralded...
The Southern Book Club's guide to slaying vampires : a novel
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
"This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good."-Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl Now in paperback, Steel Magnolias meets Dracula...
Thornhedge
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella! From New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. *The very special...
Under the Whispering Door
Klune, T. J.
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND INDIE BESTSELLER One of Buzzfeed's "Best Books of 2022"! An Indie Next Pick! A Locus Awards Top Ten Finalist for Fantasy Novel A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the...
Feed them silence
Mandelo, Lee
Paper Book
Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future. What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological...
Know my name : a memoir
Miller, Chanel
Paper Book
Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer,...
Gideon the ninth
Muir, Tamsyn.
Paper Book
15+ pages of new, original content, including a glossary of terms, in-universe writings, and more!A USA Today Best-Selling Novel, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness,...
The only one left : a novel
Sager, Riley
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit." --...
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