Staff Picks: E-books & Digital Audiobooks

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One of the questions librarians hear a lot is, “What should I read next?” We all read book reviews but know that our best advice happens when we actually have read the book from cover to cover. I put the call out and the Library Staff responded with the following recommendations from our Overdrive Collection.

Ebook recommendations:

• Dominique
  • The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
• Donna
  • The Farm by Joanne Ramos
• Hope
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers
  • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Jaimie
  • Severance by Ling Ma
  • How to be Both by Ali Smith
• Lisa
  • Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Macee
  • A Better Man by Louise Penny (the whole Armand Gamache series)
  • Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
  • Olive Kitteridge & Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

Audiobook recommendations:

• Ashley
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Hope
  • All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (the whole series)
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama
  • A Better Man by Louise Penny (All 15 audiobooks in the Three Pines mystery series are available and recommended)
  • The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
  • A Long Petal of the Sea & The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
  • The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Jaimie
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Kimberly
  • American Gods & Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Kristen
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
• Macee
  • The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

If you would like a recommendation, tailored to your specific reading tastes, reach out to us and identify a few titles, authors or genres you enjoy and we will be happy to recommend similar titles to explore. If you think we are missing something, please suggest a purchase.

Happy reading.