Searching For A Good Book? Browse This List From CH-UH Librarians
In honor of Read Across America Day, we asked local librarians to list their favorite books. Now, tell us what your favorites are!
In honor of Read Across America Day, we wanted to give readers a few good book suggestions.
So we went to the experts — librarians at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Libraries — and they gave us more than just a few. Check out this great list of books for kids, teens and adults.
Now, it's your turn. What book would you recommend? Tell us in the comments section below.
Toddler/Preschool/School age:
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, by Mo Willems (Toddler)
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming illustrated by G. Brian Karas (preschoolers)
Duck for President, by Doreen Cronin (preschool)
Professor Wormbog in Search of the Zipperump-a-Zoo, by Mercer Mayer (preschool)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The Marvel Comics adaptation), by L. Frank Baum and Illustrated by Skotti Young (5 and up)
Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke (grades 4-6)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling (School Age and Up)
Teen/adult:
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow
Princess Bride, by William Goldman
Paper Towns, by John Green
Life With Mr. Dangerous, by Paul Hornschemeier
How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
Habibi, by Craig Thompson
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
Adult:
The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
Women Who Run with the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides
Silver Sparrow, by Tayari Jones
Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje
Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Michelle Simakis
11:24 am on Friday, March 2, 2012
I asked, so I'll start! I think the funniest book I've ever read is "Naked" by David Sedaris. Also I just read "My Story" by Marilyn Monroe. It was interesting to read after seeing "My Week With Marilyn."
sheryl Banks
2:02 pm on Friday, March 2, 2012
I'm nearly done with a short story collection, "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" by Nathan Englander. And incredible combination of tragedy and comedy.
J. Nadzam
11:19 am on Saturday, March 3, 2012
Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam provides the extremely well written story of the evolving disturbing love between a young girl and a middle aged man. It is a little bit rescue fantasy doused with Pygmalion. The prose is reminiscient of Marilyn Robinson's Housekeeping. The theme is reminiscent of Nabokov's Lolita but quite different.