Staff Picks

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

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Getting to Happy

Terry McMillan

God Help the Child

Toni Morrison

Home

Toni Morrison

Midnight

Souljah

Push

Sapphire

Silver Sparrow

Tayari Jones

The Kid

Sapphire

Waiting to Exhale

Terry McMillan

Who Asked You?

Terry McMillan

Zone One

Colson Whitehead

FICTION FOR CHILDREN

Ploof

Ben Clanton

The Gray

Chris Baron

The Artivist

Nikkolas Smith

The Barren Grounds

David Robertson

The Shadows

Jacqueline West

NUTMEG NOMINEES FOR 2024 (ELEMENTARY & INTERMEDIATE)

Abdul's Story

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Ablaze with Color

Jeanne Walker Harvey

All the Way to the Top

Annette Bay Pimentel

Cornbread & Poppy

Matthew Cordell

How to Find a Fox

Kate Gardner

Raising Lumie

Joan Bauer

Scritch Scratch

Lindsay Currie

Sir Ladybug

Corey R. Tabor

Sugar in Milk

Thrity N. Umrigar

The Beast and the Bethany

Jack Meggitt-Phillips

The Lion of Mars

Jennifer L. Holm

Witches of Brooklyn. 1

Sophie Escabasse

ADULT-APRIL SHOWERS-STORIES TO CRY OVER

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Stay with Me

Ayobami Adebayo

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

MAN BOOKER AWARD WINNERS IN CANTON LIBRARY

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee

Last Orders

Graham Swift

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Milkman

Anna Burns

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

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