Celebrate Libraries: Books for Adults

In honor of Library Card Sign-up Month, we've gathered some of our favorite works of fiction and nonfiction that celebrate libraries.

Updated September 1, 2025
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Celebrate Libraries: Books for Adults

In honor of Library Card Sign-up Month, we've gathered some of our favorite works of fiction and nonfiction that celebrate libraries.

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The reading list : a novel
Adams, Sara Nisha
Paper Book
NOW A LILLY'S LIBRARY PICK! "The most heartfelt read...a surprising delight of a novel."--Shondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London...
The library : a fragile history
Pettegree, Andrew
Paper Book
A history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age "Engaging [and] ambitious" (The Washington Post)    Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private...
The little village of book lovers : a novel
George, Nina
Paper Book
A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the "bona fide international hit" (The New York Times Book Review) The Little Paris Bookshop In Nina George's...
The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war
Minoui, Delphine
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR "An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." --Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library...
The library of the unwritten
Hackwith, A. J.
Paper Book
In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.
What you are looking for is in the library : a novel
Aoyama, Michiko
Paper Book
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER  *  A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR  *  A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL GOOD BOOK OF YEAR For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book...
Why we read : on bookworms, libraries and just one more page before lights out
Reed, Shannon
Paper Book
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024* *A Good Housekeeping Reads pick* A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a "beloved and wonderful writer" (George Saunders), teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber...
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