Friday, April 11, 2014

"Library" Books

April is a month to celebrate one of the best places on the planet: THE LIBRARY!  April is School Library Month, and then there's National Library Week (April 13 through 19), National Library Workers Day (on April 15) and National Bookmobile Day (on April 16).

To help you library lovers, here is a list of books featuring libraries, cats, librarians, Dracula, archives, time travelers, and...books.
Do you have a favorite that we've missed?

The Lost Art of Reading: why books matter in a distracted time by David L. Ulin
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
Dewey: the small-town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron
It's a Book by Lane Smith
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
The Bad Book Affair by Ian Sansom
Running the Books: the adventures of an accidental prison librarian by Avi Steinberg
The Dewey Decimal System of Love by Josephine Carr
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Free for All: oddballs, geeks, and gangstas in the public library by Don Borchert
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
A Gentle Madness: bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books by Nicholas Basbanes
Ex libris: confessions of a common reader by Anne Fadiman
In the Stacks: short stories about libraries and librarians edited by Michael Cart
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Rex Libris, Volume 1: I, Librarian by James Turner
Quiet, Please: dispatches from a public librarian by Scott Douglas
This Book is Overdue!: how librarians and cybrarians can save us all by Marilyn Johnson
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
Four Past Midnight (The Library Policeman novella) by Stephen King
The Librarian: a novel by Larry Beinhart
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Jacques Bosser
Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
Library: an unquiet history by Matthew Battles
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
The World's Strongest Librarian by Joshua Hanagarne
The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer
The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman

No comments: