1/1/2024 0 Comments Library book list![]() The Body in the Libraryby Agatha Christie The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover’s Adventures by Josh Hanagarne The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia by Jack Lynch The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown and John Parra Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries & Black Librarianship by John Mark Tucker The Library of Shadowsby Mikkel Birkegaard Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan The Library at Babel by Jorge Luis Borges Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library by Wayne Wiegandĭewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron ![]() Where Are All the Librarians of Color? by Rebecca Hawkins and Miguel Juarez This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn JohnsonĪfrican American Librarians in the Far West: Pioneers and Trailblazers by Binnie Tate Wilkin Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library by Scott Sherman The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History by Alice Crawford Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America by Christine Pawley The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Library: An Unquiet Historyby Matthew BattlesĪ Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Here Comes the Bookmobile by Dirk GringhuisīiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey The Girl on the Bookmobiles by Natalie King Nancy Runs the Bookmobile by Enid Johnsonīooks and Beaux by Rosemae Wells Campbell Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue & Corinne J. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktuby Joshua Hammer Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow by Cheryl Knott ![]() Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Libraries by Alex Johnson Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Score!) Stay tuned for library cats, bookmobile romance novels, feminist bookstores, and more: (And you’ll get some extra-meta cred when you acquire them via library or bookstore. Posters, press releases, and other materials are also available.Ĭlick here for information on how to submit a title for consideration in next year's program.So here’s a not-in-any-particular-order, not-at-all-comprehensive list of books about libraries and bookstores–fiction and non, graphic and all text, old and new–that will give you a chance to do just that while having a damn great time. See the book lists for each year in the navigation bar (at left on the computer, or below on a mobile device). ![]() Throughout the award year, the State Library promotes and encourages the promotion of all the titles on that year’s list at literary events, and among librarians and local, independent booksellers. Kansas Notable Books is a project of the Kansas Center for the Book, a program of the State Library. A medal awards ceremony honors the books and their authors. Kansas Notable Books highlights our contemporary writing community and encourages readers to enjoy some of the best writing of the authors among us.Ī committee of academics, librarians, and authors of previous Notable Books identifies quality titles from among those published the previous year, then the State Librarian makes the selection for the final List. Kansas Notable Books recognizes 15 outstanding titles either written by Kansans or about a Kansas-related topic.
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