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...
By book or by crook : a lighthouse library mystery
Gates, Eva
Paper Book
Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery! For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family's social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her...
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 bodies in the library
Wingate, Marty
Paper Book
Hayley Burke has landed a dream job as the curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling's First Edition library, in Bath. The only downside is working alongside the finicky Glynis Woolgar, Lady Fowling's former secretary who does not like Hayley's ideas to modernise the library's Society. When one of her plans...
The underground library : a novel
Ryan, Jennifer
Paper Book
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. When the new deputy...
The memory library
Storey, Kate
Ebook
'A gorgeous story full of emotion and a very special library.' - Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop Some stories stay with us forever... For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter's birthday, she adds a new...
The secret lives of booksellers and librarians : true stories of the magic of reading
Patterson, James
Paper Book
The world's #1 bestselling author explores the inner lives of the people who grow and encourage our passion for reading.​ "A celebration of the world of books" --Kirkus To be a bookseller or librarian ... You have to play...
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