Staff Picks

Titles Suggested by Staff at South Windsor Public Library

ADULT - GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS

Akira. Part 1, Tetsuo.

Katsuhiro Ōtomo

Asterios Polyp

David Mazzucchelli

Batman

Jeph Loeb

Confabulation

Dave Gibbons

Ducks

Kate Beaton

Jack Kirby

Tom Scioli

Kingdom Come

Mark Waid

Lazarus

Greg Rucka

March. Book One

John Lewis

Pyongyang

Guy Delisle

Slayground

Darwyn Cooke

Superman

Alan Moore

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Three Rocks

Bill Griffith

Trashed

Derf Backderf

Watchmen

Alan Moore

ADULT-CELEBRATING SISTERHOOD

Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson

Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

Jennifer Chiaverini

Sistersong

Lucy Holland

The Chicken Sisters

K. J. Dell'Antonia

The Latecomer

Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Sisters

Nancy Jensen

The Weird Sisters

Eleanor Brown

ADULT-MAKING THINGS OUT OF STRINGS
ADULT-PALESTINE CONFLICT

Apeirogon

Colum McCann

Every Rising Sun

Jamila Ahmed

Mornings in Jenin

Susan Abulhawa

Native

Sayed Qashu

Salt Houses

Hala Alyan

The Postcard

Anne Berest

ADULT-STORIES FROM UKRAINE

Borderland

Anna Reid

Independence Square

Martin Cruz Smith

Lessons from the Edge

Marie L. Yovanovitch

Lucky Breaks

Yevgenia Belorusets

Near Abroad

Gerard Toal

Red Famine

Anne Applebaum

Saved

Benjamin Hall

The Fight of Our Lives

I︠U︡lii︠a︡ Mendelʹ

The War Came to Us

Christopher Miller

War and Punishment

Mikhail Zygarʹ

ADULT-THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

Book of Longing

Leonard Cohen

CHILDREN-ELEMENTARY NUTMEGS 2025

Anglerfish

Elaine M. Alexander

Dear Beast

Dori Hillestad Butler

Ducks Overboard!

Markus Motum

Evergreen

Matthew Cordell

Everything in Its Place

Pauline David-Sax

Fauja Singh Keeps Going

Simran Jeet Singh

Sleuthing Machine

Dusti Bowling

The Best of Iggy

Annie Barrows

The Great Stink

Colleen Paeff

The Sweetest Scoop

Lisa Robinson

Wombats!

Maddie Frost

Yoshi's Big Swim

Mary Wagley Copp

CHILDREN-INTERMEDIATE NUTMEGS 2025

A Rover's Story

Jasmine Warga

Cookies & Milk

Shawn Amos

Falling Short

Ernesto Cisneros

Invisible

Christina Diaz Gonzalez

The Canyon's Edge

Dusti Bowling

Tumble

Celia C. Pérez

Wayward Creatures

Dayna Lorentz

CHILDREN-SUMMER READING PICTURE BOOK THEMES

Click, Clack, Moo

Doreen Cronin

Dooby Dooby Moo

Doreen Cronin

CHILDREN-SUMMER READING THEMES

Kitten Trouble

Nick Bruel

The Bad Guys

Aaron Blabey

YA ROMANTASY

Belladonna

Adalyn Grace

Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas

Chain of Gold

Cassandra Clare

Cinder

Marissa Meyer

Cinderella is Dead

Kalynn Bayron

City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare

Fall of Ruin and Wrath

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Forged in Fire and Stars

Andrea Robertson

Gilded

Marissa Meyer

Graceling

Kristin Cashore

Lightlark

Alex Aster

Matched

Allyson Braithwaite Condie

The Queen's Assassin

Melissa De la Cruz

The Burning Sky

Sherry Thomas

The Inheritance Games

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas

YA-TEEN BOOK DISCUSSION TITLES

Meet Me in Mumbai

Shabina Afzal Khan

The Blood Years

Elana K. Arnold

The King is Dead

Benjamin Dean

The Last Cuentista

Donna Barba Higuera

YA-TEEN GRAPHIC NOVELS

Blackward

Lawrence Lindell

Four Eyes

Rex Ogle

Invisible Emmie

Terri Libenson

Mexikid

Pedro Martin

Strikers

Kiel Phegley

Sunshine

Jarrett Krosoczka

YA-TEEN NON-FICTION

Hey, Kiddo

Jarrett Krosoczka

Jane Against the World

Karen Blumenthal

True or False

Cindy L. Otis

What Now?

Barbara Sheen

YA-TEEN PRIDE

Ariel Crashes a Train

Olivia A. Cole

Dear Medusa

Olivia A. Cole

Imogen, Obviously

Becky Albertalli

Salt the Water

Candice Iloh

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