In celebration of National Library Week, here are some books about libraries and librarians!
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig imagines
is a library with books for an individual. One book tells the story of the
person’s life as it is, while an infinite number of others tell the person’s
life if other choices had been made.
Nora Seed has found the library and now she has the chance to experience
her other lives—and to decide which life is worth living.
The
Littlest Library
by Poppy Alexander: Librarian Jess Metcalf moves to the English
countryside after the death of her beloved grandmother. She discovers she’s the owner of an old red phone
box, which turns into the littlest library in England with heart-warming results.
The Last Chance Library by Freya Samson follows June Jones as she emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way.
The Library of the Dead
by T.L. Huchu: Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker, and she now
speaks to Edinburgh's dead - carrying messages to the living - but when she
learns someone is bewitching children she investigates and discovers an occult
library, a taste for hidden magic, and a wealth of Edinburgh's dark secrets.
The
Library of Lost and Found
by Phaedra Patrick is the story of a shy librarian whose kind heart is often
exploited receives a mysterious book of fairy tales from the beloved
grandmother she believed dead and embarks on a perspective-changing journey of
astonishing family secrets.
The
Invisible Library
by Genevieve Cogman is a fantasy adventure series about librarian agents who
must collect books from various realities.
Readers have praised it for its humor, imagination, and wordplay.
The Bookshop
on the Corner by Jenny
Colgan: Nina, a "literary
matchmaker" who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from
the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and
rediscovers her sense of adventure while searching for a happy ending of her
own.
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