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January LibraryReads List
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Jan 3, 2025
by SCLSNJ Staff
Borrowed by Yvonne Selander, collection development librarian The Top 10 books published this month that library staff across the country love!
- Top Pick: “Good Dirt” by Charmaine Wilkerson
- “Babylonia” by Costanza Casati
- “The Business Trip” by Jessie Garcia
- “The Favorites” by Layne Fargo
- “The In-Between Bookstore” by Edward Underhill
- “The Note” by Alafair Burke
- “Out of the Woods” by Hannah Bonam-Young
- “Tell Me What You Did” by Carter Wilson
- “Temple of Swoon” by Jo Segura
- “Water Moon” by Samantha Sotto Yambao
Hall of Fame: The LibraryReads Hall of Fame designation honors authors who have had multiple titles appear on the monthly LibraryReads list since 2013. When their third title places on the list via library staff votes, the author moves into the Hall of Fame.
- “Accidentally Amy” by Lynn Painter
- “Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear” by Seanan McGuire
- “Beautiful Ugly” by Alice Feeney
- “Beg, Borrow, or Steal” by Sarah Adams
- “The Crash” by Freida McFadden
- “Death of the Author” by Nnedi Okorafor
- “Once Smitten, Twice Shy” by Chloe Liese
- “A Sea of Unspoken Things” by Adrienne Young
- “The Stolen Queen” by Fiona Davis
- “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix
January 2025 Bonus Pick:
- “Wake Up and Open Your Eyes” by Clay McLeod Chapman
Notable Nonfiction:
- “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)” by Colette Shade