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Even More of What Our Patrons Read for Winter Reading

Did you miss out on our Winter Reading program? You can still enjoy these exciting books that your fellow library patrons have been reading. And keep an eye out for when summer reading starts in June!

Evanston Public Library

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  • "After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2021. — Fiction Olear.B
  • "Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent…
    BookNew York : Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2004. — Fiction Tartt.D
  • "Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of sunshine, cookouts, and bonfires on the beach. But this summer will not be like any other. When Arch Newton, a prominent New York attorney,…
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2003. — Fiction Hilde.E
  • "When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked…
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2024] — Fiction Evere.P
  • "Young Huck is an industrious, fiercely independent boy who escapes his abusive, drunken father and sets out on an unforgettable journey down the Mississippi River. Enjoying his freedom, he befriends a kindhearted slave named Jim, whose…
    BookNew York : Sterling Pub., [2006] — J Twain.M
  • Catch and Kill

    Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

    Farrow, Ronan, 1987-
    "In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most power­ful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 331.4133 Farro.R
  • "Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their…
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2020. — Fiction Joukh.Z
  • "In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught between two worlds, a teen boy puts his family at risk as he uncovers racist secrets about his suburb."
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — YA Fiction Johns.K
  • "When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is…
    BookNew York, NY : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — YA Fiction Cobel.K
  • The 1619 Project

    a New Origin Story

    "The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning 1619 Project issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This book substantially expands on that…
    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — 973.0496 Sixteen
  • "Mark Yakich's fifth collection of poetry is a dynamic and discerning journey of devotion and temptation in pursuit of the divine. Not trifling in ambiguity but diving headlong into it, Spiritual Exercises wrestles with popular gods as…
    BookNew York : Penguin Books, 2019. — 811.6 Yakic.M
  • "In this collection, music is inextricable from life, from landscape, and from the people we remember through it. The poet inhabits the minds and milieus of musicians; he hears arpeggios in the salon of Princesse Edmonde de Polignac and…
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — 811.54 Klein.A
  • "Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high-profile…
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2024] — Mystery Crais.R
  • "In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial intelligence. Desperate to resolve her family’s debt and secure their future for another few months, she…
    BookNew York : Marysue Rucci Books, 2024. — Fiction Phill.H
  • "Tess Rosenbloom is no stranger to the dark. An assault survivor and grad school dropout, Tess spends her nights managing a chic Brooklyn hotel and her days reading her favorite vampire novels, Blood Feud. She even dabbles in online…
    BookNew York : The Dial Press, [2024] — Fiction Staym.K
  • "A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world."
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — Fiction Thorp.R
  • "A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most…
    BookBoston : Little, Brown and Co., 2001. — Fiction Salin.J
  • "In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee - the chance to travel back in time."
    Book[Toronto, Ontario, Canada] : Hanover Square Press, 2020. — Fiction Kawag.T
  • Camera Lucida

    Reflections on Photography

    Barthes, Roland,
    "Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely…
    BookNew York : Hill and Wang, 2010. — 770.1 Barth.R
  • "Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.…
    BookNew York : Simon and Schuster, [1979] — 814.54 Didio.J