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Find Your Next Great Read With Booklist Reader

Wondering what to read next? The Monroe County Public Library has a great new way to find your next great read – Booklist Reader.

Click on the cover to learn more:

This publication from the American Library Association has recommended reads for all ages, and includes audiobooks. And they’re not all new books – these recommendations pull from writers’ backlists and library shelves to suggest some hidden gems.

So if you see something you like, go ahead and search our catalog. If it’s a new book and we don’t have it, you can ask us to add it to the collection. If it’s a book that was published more than a year ago, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan – we’ll try to get it from another library for you. Questions about that? Stop by or call your local branch, or email us at info@keyslibraries.org

The August issue has a spotlight on graphic novels, book groups and sports, as well as interviews with Roxanna Asgarian (We Were Once A Family) and Amanda Peters (The Berry Pickers), the winners of this year’s Carnegie Medals for nonfiction and fiction. As always the issue also includes this month’s picks for LibraryReads and program highlights from PBS Books.

Back issues are always available, too!

July 2024: spotlight on the environment & sustainability

June 2024: spotlight on summer reading

May 2024: spotlights on family life and parenting & history

April 2024: spotlights on poetry & first novels

March 2024: spotlights on relationship fiction & the arts.

February 2024: spotlights on romance & historical fiction

January 2024: spotlights on biographies & memoirs and travel

December 2023: spotlights on science/technology & picture books

November 2023: spotlights on food & middle-grade fiction.

October 2023: spotlights on SF/fantasy & horror

September 2023: spotlights on mysteries & thrillers and true crime

August 2023: spotlights on graphic novels and book discussions

July 2023: spotlights on the environment and early reading

June 2023: spotlights on beach reads and summer reading.

May 2023: spotlights on history and family life & parenting.

April 2023: spotlights on first novels and poetry

March 2023: spotlights on women’s fiction and the arts

February 2023: spotlights on historical fiction and romance

January 2023: travel and biography & memoirs

Initial access to Booklist Reader was made possible by a grant from Booklist Publications and the Mellon Foundation.

Categories:

All Ages Audio Books eAudio eBooks Fiction Graphic Novels NonfictionScience Fiction and FantasyYoung Adult