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Proud that DC Public Library does this program as well, thanks to the library’s amazing social worker!

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The World is Falling Apart and I Just Want to Escape Into a Book

A list of reading recommendations for 2017 and beyond.

Hello everybody!

It’s me, your friendly neighborhood librarian. I know it may be rough going for the next few years, but if you don’t have the time or money to travel or move to Canada, you can still do the next best thing and pick up a book! Here’s a list of some of my favorite new and new-to-me reads from the past year. Enjoy!

Sci-fi or anything not remotely set in this universe

The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood

Ready Player One-Ernest Cline

The Fireman-Joe Hill

The Rest of Us Just Live Here-Patrick Ness

Sleeping Giants-Silvain Neuvel

I need a good scare (but don’t want to turn on the news):

The Fever-Megan Abbott

You Will Know Me-Megan Abbott

The Widow-Fiona Barton

Broken Monsters-Lauren Beukes

Dangerous Lies-Becca Fitzpatrick

The Accident Season-Moira Fowley-Doyle

My Best Friend's Exorcism-Grady Hendrix

The Vegetarian-Han Kang

Arrowood-Laura McHugh

Panic-Lauren Oliver

The Walls Around Us-Nova Ren Suma

In a Dark Dark Wood-Ruth Ware

The Woman in Cabin 10-Ruth Ware

Tinder got me like is romance dead??

All the Birds in the Sky-Charlie Jane Anders

Good on Paper-Rachel Cantor

Anything by Jandy Nelson or Emery Lord

When the Moon was Ours-Anna-Marie McLemore

Holding Up the Universe-Jennifer Niven

Losing it-Emma Rathbone

If I Was Your Girl-Meredith Russo

Eligible-Curtis Sittenfeld

Love & Gelato-Jenna Evans Welch

Everything, Everything-Nicola Yoon

The Sun is Also a Star-Nicola Yoon

Memoirs for #WCW & #MCM

Not my Father’s Son-Alan Cumming

A Girl Walks Into a Bar-Rachel Dratch

Buffering-Hannah Hart

Scrappy Little Nobody-Anna Kendrick

You'll Grow Out of It-Jessi Klein

I’m Just a Person-Tig Notaro

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo-Amy Schumer

Shrill-Lindy West

Where Am I Now?-Mara Wilson

I can’t even with books that don’t have pictures

Black Panther-Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Wicked+The Divine-Kieron Gillen

Friends with Boys-Faith Erin Hicks

Locke & Key-Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

Honor Girl-Maggie Thrash

Paper Girls-Brian K. Vaughan

Saga-Brian K. Vaughan

Alex+Ada-Sara Vaughn

Ms. Marvel-G. Willow Wilson

I need a “real book” for my book club

Alice & Oliver-Charles Bock

How to Set a Fire and Why-Jesse Ball

Moonglow- Michael Chabon

The Girls-Emma Cline

Sweetbitter-Stephanie Danler

Here I Am-Jonathan Safran Foer

Homegoing-Yaa Gyasi

The Nightingale-Kristin Hannah

The Marriage of Opposites-Alice Hoffman

Anything by Zaide Smith

Brooklyn-Colm Toibin

Vinegar Girl-Anne Tyler

Miss Jane-Brad Watson

First Bite-Bee Wilson

Underground Airlines-Ben H. Winters

Another Brooklyn-Jacqueline Woodson

A Little Life-Hanya Yanagihara

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Currently shuddering with laughter on the desk.

*does laundry but like in a punk way*

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Basically, the big winner at the Oscars this year was books.

For Your Consideration

There is quite a literary flavor to this year’s Academy Award-nominated films, many of which are based on acclaimed novels and works of nonfiction. And three novelists–Alex Garland, Emma Donoghue, and Nick Hornby, received nominations in the Best Original and Best Adapted Screenplays categories.

Happy viewing, happy reading, and may the best book win!

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The Bechdel captcha.

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This was me yesterday.

WATCHING PATRONS CHECK OUT MY DISPLAY

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Book Cabage, Cara Barer

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YES THIS FOREVER

New Headcanon

Sideways Stories from Wayside School takes place in Night Vale.

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Need.

What time is it? It’s time to read! Your Friday fashion statement.

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

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I spy my supervisor from my museum library practicum :-)

ARLIS/NA Conference For more info about ARLIS/NA visit www.arlisna.org

Alice Whiteside Reference & Instruction Librarian RISD, Rhode Island

Alison Larson University of Northern Texas Waco, Texas

Lori Salmon New York Public Library NYC, NY

Billy Parrott New York Public Library NY, NY

Anne Evenhaugen Smithsonian Washington, DC

Beverly Mitchell SMU Dallas, Texas

Dan Lipcan Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library NY, NY

Sian Evans Artstor NY, NY

Suz Massen The Frick Collection NYC, NY

Thomas Caswell University of Florida , Gainesville, FL

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Transforming Old Books into New Art

For more lovely literary art, explore the #bookart and #booksculpture hashtags on Instagram.

Marlene Marques (@a_novel_idea_21) spends up to four hours a day folding up and tearing through pages of old novels—but never destroying them. “Book art is about giving books new life,” she says. “Especially in the age of e-readers and e-books, it’s a great way to bring physical novels back into people’s homes.”

Marlene, originally from Portugal and currently living in New Jersey, first started creating book art as a personal pastime in the off-hours from her job as a 911 emergency call dispatcher. Eventually, she started sharing photos of the finished products on Instagram, and selling her work online.

“In the end I think I’m inspired by a love of books, and their smell,” she says. “What better way to recycle them than to re-create them into works of art?”

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New career goal: get this into the Library of Congress.

So this sign is hanging in my public library

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Important update from your friendly Community Bookstore

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I’m the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.

Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell (via ahhhmayzing)

Last night my boyfriend showed me a Facebook post by his friend who got trapped in the library at night after it closed. He prefaced it by saying "This is something you would love!" He knows me well.

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I watched this entire scene through my fingers going "The books! Those poor books!!"