Staff Picks

A Sampling of Titles Suggested by Staff at Any of the 32 Libraries in Library Connection

BERLIN-PECK PICKS: MEMOIRS

Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

Black is the Body

Emily Bernard

Blood

Allison Moorer

Call the Midwife

Jennifer Worth

Five Days Gone

Laura Cumming

Here We Are

Aarti Namdev Shahani

I Will Always Write Back

Caitlin Alifirenka

In Pain

Travis N. Rieder

Permanent Record

Edward J. Snowden

Solitary

Albert Woodfox

Survival Math

Mitchell S. Jackson

Tell Me More

Kelly Corrigan

The Beneficiary

Janny Scott

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

The Sun Does Shine

Anthony Ray Hinton

The Undying

Anne Boyer

The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom

Unfollow

Megan Phelps-Roper

Wesley the Owl

Stacey O'Brien

Wild Game

Adrienne Brodeur

PODCAST PICKS - STAFF SELECTIONS FROM MIDDLETOWN STRONG

As You Walk on by

Julian Winters

Behind the Scenes

Karelia Stetz-Waters

Chocolat

Joanne Harris

Circling the Sun

Paula McLain

East

Edith Pattou

Frendo Lives

Adam Cesare

Garvey in the Dark

Nikki Grimes

Gmorning, Gnight!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Going Bicoastal

Dahlia Adler

Greenglass House

Kate Milford

Humans of New York

Brandon Stanton

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

Imogen, Obviously

Becky Albertalli

Lost & Found

Kathryn Schulz

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mister Magic

Kiersten White

Nightmares!

Jason Segel

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld

Stamped

Jason Reynolds

Stars in Your Eyes

Kacen Callender

The Book of Hygge

Louisa Thomsen Brits

The Dead Romantics

Ashley Poston

The Light We Carry

Michelle Obama

The Witch Boy

Molly Knox Ostertag

West with the Night

Beryl Markham

BERLIN-PECK PICKS: MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS

Career of Evil

Robert Galbraith

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn

Darktown

Thomas Mullen

Her Every Fear

Peter Swanson

In the Woods

Tana French

Lethal White

Robert Galbraith

Moriarty

Anthony Horowitz

Not a Sound

Heather Gudenkauf

People Like Her

Ellery Lloyd

The Child

Fiona Barton

The Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith

The Ex

Alafair Burke

The Force

Don Winslow

The Holdout

Graham Moore

The Last Flight

Julie Clark

The Push

Ashley Audrain

The Silkworm

Robert Galbraith

NON FICTION BY BLACK AUTHORS

Finding Me

Viola Davis

Half American

Matthew F. Delmont

The Trayvon Generation

Elizabeth Alexander

The Light We Carry

Michelle Obama

The Movement Made Us

David J. Dennis

KARLYN'S FAVORITES

Anatomy

Dana Schwartz

Fable

Adrienne Young

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

In Love

Amy Bloom

Magic Lessons

Alice Hoffman

Matrix

Lauren Groff

Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo

Once There Were Wolves

Charlotte McConaghy

The Book Eaters

Sunyi Dean

The Mercies

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Revisioners

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

ROCKY HILL READS: GET YOUR FEMINISM ON

All the Single Ladies

Rebecca Traister

Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

Good and Mad

Rebecca Traister

Hood Feminism

Mikki Kendall

How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran

My Life on the Road

Gloria Steinem

Roar

Cecelia Ahern

The End of Men

Hanna Rosin

The Moment of Lift

Melinda Gates

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women & Power

Mary Beard

CELEBRATE BLACK VOICES

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Finding Me

Viola Davis

Honey and Spice

Bolu Babalola

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

Recitatif

Toni Morrison

That Bird Has My Wings

Jarvis Jay Masters

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

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