National Library Week 2024

Celebrate all that libraries have to offer! This includes library history, books about books, and fiction related to libraries and books.

Updated January 17, 2024
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What you are looking for is in the library : a novel
Aoyama, Michiko
Paper Book
THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL The Top Ten Times bestseller A Time Magazine Book of the Year 'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times 'I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ' Daily Mail 'It...
The invisible library
Cogman, Genevieve
Paper Book
One spy. One dangerous book. One deadly mission. Discover the first book in this gripping fantasy mystery series - The Invisible Library is the astounding debut from bestselling author Genevieve Cogman. Perfect for fans of Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin...
The book eaters
Dean, Sunyi
Paper Book
THE NO. 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I devoured this' V.E. Schwab 'A vampire-themed Handmaid's Tale, with effective thrills that are intensified by social commentary' Guardian A gorgeous new fantasy horror - a book about...
The midnight library
Haig, Matt
Paper Book
*MATT HAIG'S NEW NOVEL THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE IS AVAILABLE NOW * THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON READERS' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION'BEAUTIFUL' Jodi Picoult, 'UPLIFTING' i, 'BRILLIANT' Daily Mail, 'AMAZING' Joanna Cannon,...
The library at the edge of the world : a novel
Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
Paper Book
Book lovers
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
One holiday. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... -------- 'Her best yet' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising 'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us 'Magical, delightful, and...
A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
Kraus, Dita
Paper Book
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz Born in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling...
940.5318 Kraus Kraus 2020
The strange library
Murakami, Haruki
Paper Book
Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. 'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library<...
Dewey : a small-town library cat who touched the world
Myron, Vicki.
Paper Book
This is a story about the library cat who inspired the lives of those around him as well as people across the world. At only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, Dewey was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. The next morning librarian, Vicki Myron, finds...
636.8 M997
Dewey's nine lives : the legacy of the small-town library cat who inspired millions
Myron, Vicki.
Paper Book
The world's best-loved library cat returns in a heartwarming collection inspired by true tales of cats and the people whose lives they enriched.
636.8 Myron 2010
The library book
Orlean, Susan
Paper Book
The bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief reopens the unsolved mystery of one of the most catastrophic library fires in history and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.
027.4794 Orlean 2018
The library : a fragile history
Pettegree, Andrew
Paper Book
Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google.
027.009 Pettegree 2021
The last chance library
Sampson, Freya
Paper Book
Dear Fahrenheit 451 : love and heartbreak in the stacks : a librarian's love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life
Spence, Annie
Paper Book
A librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in her life.
028.9 Spence 2017
The little wartime library
Thompson, Kate
Paper Book
'A splendid warm-hearted novel' - Rachel Hore London, 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused...

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