Cloud Library Booklists

Fiction Anti-Racism Reads

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Everywhere You Don

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The World Doesn

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

Delicious Foods - James Hannaham

Lakewood - Megan Giddings

We Cast a Shadow - Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick - Zora Neale Hurston

Home - Toni Morrison

Non-Fiction Anti-Racism Reads

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Blackballed by Darryl Pinckney

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue

Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson

The South Side by Natalie Y. Moore

White Rage by Carol Anderson

They Can

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton

Why I

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks

Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper

How to Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal Marie Fleming

A Terrible Thing to Waste by Harriet A. Washington

Reproductive Injustice by Dana-Ain Davis

Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Dog Whistle Politics by Ian Haney Lopez

Me and White Supremacy

Pride Month Reads

Sugar Run - Mesha Maren

Lie with Me - Philippe Besson

Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta

On Earth We

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

On Swift Horses - Shannon Pufahl

Find Me - Andre Aciman

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

How We Fight For Our Lives - Saeed Jones

Summer Escapism

Beach Read - Emily Henry

The Lemon Sisters - Jill Shalvis

Swimming Lessons - Claire Fuller

Barefoot Beach - Debbie Mason

Summer of

Two Truths and a Lie - Meg Mitchell Moore

Beach House Reunion - Mary Alice Monroe

One Perfect Summer - Brenda Novak

Mr. Nobody - Catherine Steadman

Surfside Sisters - Nancy Thayer

Summer House with Swimming Pool - Herman Koch

Sunset Beach - Mary Kay Andrews

Body Surfing - Anita Shreve

Lake of the Ozarks - Bill Geist

Top Picks From our “Book Lovers” Book Club

Anything is Possible – Elizabeth Strout

Becoming – Michelle Obama

Born a Crime – Trevor Noah

Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner

Educated – Tara Westover

I Am The Messenger – Markus Zusak

Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson

Library Book – Susan Orlean

Lilac Girls – Martha Hall Kelly

Olive, Again – Elizabeth Strout

Secrets Between Us – Thrity Umrigar

Testaments – Margaret Atwood

These Truths – Jill Lepore

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

Eclectic Reads for Dreary Days

A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara

Furiously Happy – a funny book about horrible things- Jenny Lawson

If Not For You – Debbie Macomber

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan

Little Book of Hygge-Danish Secrets to Happy Living – Neik Wiking

My Not So Perfect Life – Sophie Kinsella

Outsider – Stephen King

Quiet – the Power of Introverts in a world that can’t stop talking – Susan Cain

Windhaven – George R.R. Martin

It’s Always a Good Time for Psychological Suspense

An Anonymous Girl – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Better Sister – Alafair Burke

The Invited – Jennifer McMahon

Last Time I Lied – Riley Sager

Miracle Creek – Angie Kim

The Nanny – Gilly Macmillan

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell

Turn of the Key – Ruth Ware

Whisper Man – Alex North

Books to Read for Earth Day

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle- Barbara Kingsolver

Death and Life of the Great Lakes – Dan Egan

Falter – Bill McKibben

Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohlleben

Larose – Louise Erdrich

Nature’s Best Hope – Douglas W. Tallamy

Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

Song of Trees – David George Haskell

Uninhabitable Earth – David Wallace-Wells

Celebrate National Couple’s Month – Read a book together!

Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein

At Home – Bill Bryson

Before I Die – Jenny Dunham

Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin

Fictional Pandemics

Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton

Dog Stars – Peter Heller

Dreamers – Karen Thompson Walker

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

The Passage – Justin Cronin

Severance – Ling Ma

The Stand – Stephen King

Station 11 – Emily St. John Mandel

Wilder Girls – Rory Power

Social Distancing is Nothing New

“Braving the Wilderness-Quest for True Belonging” – Brene Brown

“Great Alone”- Kristin Hannah

“Light Between Oceans” – M.L. Stedman

“Lonely City-adventures in the art of being alone” – Olivia Laing

“The Martian” – Andy Weir

“Overcoming The Destructive Inner Voice “ – Robert Firestone

“Speak” – Laurie Halse

“Touching Spirit Bear” – Ben Mikaelsen

“Walden”- Henry David Thoreau

“We Have Always Lived in the Castle” – Shirley Jackson

Outdoor Adventures

Call of the Wild – Jack London

Change in Altitude – Anita Shreve

Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

Lost City of Z – David Crann

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard

Stranger in the Woods – Michael Finkel

A Walk in the Woods –Bill Bryson

Wild – Cheryl Strayed

World Beneath Their Feet – Scott Ellsworth

Stay Connected With Some Family Sagas

Dutch House – Ann Patchett

Guest Book – Sarah Blake

Island of Sea Women – Lisa See

Most Fun We Ever Had – Claire Lombardo

Olive, Again – Elizabeth Strout

Pachinko – Min Jin Lee

Red At the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson

Saints for All Occasions – J. Courtney Sullivan

Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver

Weather – Jenny Offill

Binge Read a Series!

The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith

Year One – Nora Roberts

The Bat – Jo Nesbo

Fall of Giants – Ken Follett

Outlander – Diana Gabaldon

The Fifth Season – NK Jemisin

Winter in Paradise – Elin Hilderbrand

Mr. Mercedes – Stephen King - audiobook

Girl Waits with Gun – Amy Stewart

The Silent Corner – Dean Koontz

Memory Man – David Baldacci

The Heist – Janet Evanovich

Book Lovers Annotations April 2020

Dear Edward – Ann Napolitano

Talking to Strangers - What We Should Talk About the People We Don’t Know – Malcolm Gladwell

Girl- Edna O’Brien

Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur

Mirror and the Light – Hilary Mantel

My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell

Red Lotus – Chris Bohjalian

These Ghosts are Family- Maisy Card

You Are Not Alone – Greer Hendricks

Reading About Food: With Recipes Included

“32 Yolks-from my Mother’s Table to Walking the Line”-Eric Ripert

“Beekeeper of Aleppo”- Christy Lefteri

“Best Cook in the World-tales from My Momma’s Kitchen”-Rick Bragg

“Blood, Bones and Butter”-Gabrielle Hamilton

“Eat Cake”-Jeanne Ray

“Kitchens of the Great Midwest”-J. Ryan Stradel

“Lager Queen of Minnesota” -J. Ryan Stradel

“My Mother’s Kitchen-Breakfast, Dinner and the Meaning of Life”-Peter Gethers

“Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune”-Roselle Lim

“Save Me The Plums”-Ruth Reichl

They Survived, and So Will We!

“After the flood”-Kassandra Montage

“The Dog Stars”-Peter Heller

“End of the World Running Club”-Adrian J. Waller

“Girl”-Edna O’Brien

“In the Kingdom of Ice”-Hampton Sides

“Last Ones Left Alive”-Sarah Goff Davis

“The Martian”-Andy Weir

“One More River To Cross”-Jane Kirkpatrick

“The Road”-Cormac McCarthy

“Stranger in the Woods”-Michael Finkel

Romance From Six Feet Away

The Honey-don’t list – Christina Lauren

If I Never Met You – Mhairi McFarlane

Still Me – Jojo Moyes

The Wallflower Wager – Tessa Dare

The Bride Test – Helen Hoang

No Judgements – Meg Cabot

One Day in December – Josie Silver

This Heart of Mine – Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Devil’s Daughter – Lisa Kleypas

Any Day Now – Robyn Carr

The Cinderella Deal – Jennifer Crusie

I Owe You One – Sophie Kinsella

Historical Fiction

“America’s First Daughter”-Stephanie Dray

“Before We Were Yours”-Lisa Wingate

“Carnegie’s Maid”-Marie Benedict

“Giver of Stars”-Jojo Moyes

“Lilac Girls”-Martha Hall Kelly

“Long Petal of the Sea”-Isabel Allende

“Lost Girls of Paris”- Pam Jenoff

“My Dear Hamilton-a novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton”-Stephanie Dray

“Nickel Boys”-Colson Whitehead

“Nightingale”-Kristin Hannah

Historical Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction

“First Conspiracy:the secret plot to kill George Washington” -Brad Meltzer

“In the Heart of the Sea-the tragedy of the Whaleship Essex”-Nathaniel Philbrick

“Killers of the Flower Moon- the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI”- David Grann

“Lost City of the Monkey God-a true story”- Douglas J.Preston

“Only Plane in the Sky-an oral History of 9/11”- Garrett M. Graff

“Pioneers-heroic story of the settlers who brought the American Ideal West”-David G. McCullough

“Sapiens-a brief history of humankind”-Yuval N.Harari

“Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers-the Texas victory that changed America”-Brian Kilmeade

“Splendid and the Vile-A saga of Churchill, family and defiance during the Blitz”-Erik Larson

“Unbroken-an Olympian’s journey from airman to castaway to captive”-Laura Hillenbrand

Strong Women Survivors

Funny Reads: Fiction

Where

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

The Martian - Andy Weir

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Curious Minds - Janet Evanovich

Smokin

The Hitchhiker

The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek – Rhett McLaughlin

The Sellout – Paul Beatty

Redshirts – John Scalzi

Funny Reads: Non-Fiction

Food - Jim Gaffigan

Dad is Fat – Jim Gaffigan

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Let

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

Let

Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris

The Last Black Unicorn – Tiffany Haddish

Lessons from Lucy – Dave Barry

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - Caitlin Doughty

#IMOMSOHARD – Kristin Hensley

Lake of the Ozarks – Bill Geist

Dear Girls – Ali Wong

Yes please – Amy Poehler

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Nick Offerman & Megan Mullaly

Books to Make Your Heart Swell