Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book recommended by a librarian.


Might it be safe to assume that a librarian would recommend The Library Book?


If you are a librarian, or you've had books recommended by your librarian, add them to our list!

Listopia list is Here: A Book Recommended by a Librarian

I'm a librarian! Can I read a book recommended by myself? Haha...

Kenya wrote: "I'm a librarian! Can I read a book recommended by myself? Haha..."

Oh brilliant, I can pick something off your books you love shelf!

Overdrive always has a list of picks from the librarians so I can grab a book from that.

Thanks for the list. I don't go to libraries so these (and I'm sure other recs) will help me out a lot.

Kenya wrote: "I'm a librarian! Can I read a book recommended by myself? Haha..."


Please recommend books!! I love MurderBot and Ann Leckie a T Kingfisher and superheroes and zombies. I do NOT like cozy SFF like Long Way to an Angry Planet. Recommend a few books to me!!

i'm a librarian. i will reccomend in the listopia.

Kenya wrote: "I'm a librarian! Can I read a book recommended by myself? Haha..."

LOL. I'm a bookseller! Can I do the same thing?

Doni wrote: "Kenya wrote: "I'm a librarian! Can I read a book recommended by myself? Haha..."

LOL. I'm a bookseller! Can I do the same thing?"

definitely in the bookseller listopia. i have no bookstore within 100 miles of my location.

Going with Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America since I've seen this one recommended before.

The year we had a prompt to read a book we saw a stranger reading in public, I was sitting in a hospital waiting room, and asked the woman next to me, what she was reading. It turned out that she was a former librarian! And she was reading The Lost Man, by Jane Harper. I read it and loved it, and have been reading Jane Harper's books ever since!

Coincidently, this woman's husband was reading a tattered hardback of the SAME book I was currently reading (only I left my tattered paperback copy at home, and was knitting), Nevil Shute's, The Chequer Board, published in 1947. I throw this in, because what were the odds?!

I follow a FB page called The Roving Librarian. She has recently recommended historical fiction Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris and Korean SciFi Counterweight by Djuna.

Two other librarian friends have recently suggested: The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade and A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier.

My husband is a librarian so I might just choose a book he got me for my birthday this year!

New York Public Library has a staff picks section on their website and every season they release their picks (new and old books). I'll be pulling from that. Here's the link: https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recom...

Note: you can access past seasons via the dropdown menu on the right.

PS There are recs for teens and kids too. :)

Tell me what you'd like to read for this prompt and I'll recommend it to you! :D

Highly recommend using the website www.libraryreads.org to find your choice for this prompt. It’s a list of 10 new books a month voted on by librarians across the country.

I'm a librarian so I'll add to the Listopia.

I got these recommendations from a Scottsdale librarian:

Louise Erdrich
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Andy Weir
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Wool Omnibus

I am a librarian so I just went and added a heap of my best reads for this year to the listopia.
Absolute top read was The Angry Women's Choir

Kenya wrote: "I'm a librarian! Can I read a book recommended by myself? Haha..."

Me and all my coworkers who do this challenge together every year: "This is basically just a freebie, right?"

Every month, there are 10 books picked by librarians across the country on LibraryReads. They give a one paragraph explanation for why they chose each book. This could be useful for those who do not want to venture out to an actual library for whatever reason (cold weather being a very good one).

My local library is awesome and they put out best picks every year. Here's a link to their recommendations for 2023 and more. Any one of these would work for the librarian prompt.

https://kcls.org/best-books/

I suggest a book I just read and gave 5 stars - The Lion in the Lei Shop. It was recommended by Librarian Nancy Pearl in her Book Lust Rediscoveries - she's written a forward, readers discussion guide, and a suggested related reading for this edition. It's only available in print because of Pearl's recommendation and it is terrific.

My library has a page on GR, so I asked what recommendation they would have for me. The librarian checked my reading and made recommendations in Historical Fiction and Mystery genres! I am so lucky to have this option. Now to decide. I do know that two of the suggested books are on my TBR.

Bea wrote: "My library has a page on GR, so I asked what recommendation they would have for me. The librarian checked my reading and made recommendations in Historical Fiction and Mystery genres! I am so lucky..."



wow that's really awesome that they do it based on your GR profile!!!

BTW I am a librarian so feel free, if anyone wants, to use my Goodreads as a recommendation. Or if you just want a recommendation, read The Tao of Martha by Jen Lancaster.

Joshua wrote: "BTW I am a librarian so feel free, if anyone wants, to use my Goodreads as a recommendation. Or if you just want a recommendation, read The Tao of Martha by Jen Lancaster."

Great!!! I'm going to check your 5 stars right now. Thank you!

Any nonfiction recs for Tudor England/French Revolution/American civil war?

I did add a bunch of my favorite to the list! Any manga I've put on there, consider my recommendation for the full series (I would feel weird about putting like 40 volumes of manga on a list but I can do that if people want).

Any recommendations on this for ya fantasy?

I don't remember the library, but one of my targeted facebook ads was for books librarians DIDNT recommend so that twist made me LOL so I'll be going with The Witches: Salem, 1692

Would GR librarians count?

Another thought: could a librarian rec smth to self?

Kenya wrote: "I'm a librarian! Can I read a book recommended by myself? Haha..." LOL! I only saw your post after I wrote the same thing.

I'm a librarian as well! Feel free to check out my 5 stars - I read mostly YA and queer romance. Also, I recommend that you read down your TBR pile this year, so consider everything on it librarian approved!

My library also has a monthly Staff Picks feature where librarians recommend 5 titles they've loved that month. Archive is here if anyone wants to take a look.

https://dekalblibrary.org/shelf-help/...

Fran wrote: "I'm a librarian as well! Feel free to check out my 5 stars - I read mostly YA and queer romance. Also, I recommend that you read down your TBR pile this year, so consider everything on it librarian..."
Hi fellow Atlantan! I'm in Gwinnett. Thanks for the link.

I have The Henna Artist and The Secret Keeper of Jaipur on my TBR. I see both were recommended in August. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur has a main character who is 42, so now I can do both for the challenge!

My husband is a librarian (elementary school media specialist). Here's some of his favorites…

Project Hail Mary
Starter Villain
Dune (all six main books)
Legendborn
The Hunger Games (and sequels)
Ready Player One
Ready Player Two
Neuromancer
The Final Empire
The Eyes of the Dragon

If you were looking for an excuse to read any of those, there you go!

If you like YA, Gwinnett County Public Schools (Metro Atlanta) has a reading quiz bowl every year. The books are all chosen by librarians in the school system.

Here is this year's high school picks:
The Agathas
All My Rage
The Drowned Woods
I Must Betray You
Into the Sublime
Kneel
Love Times Infinity
My Mechanical Romance
See You Yesterday
This Poison Heart

I wrote quiz questions for My Mechanical Romance, The Agathas, and See You Yesterday. All three are excellent.

Links to previous years are here…
https://www.gcpsk12.org/Page/30283

And the Georgia Peach Awards nominees are all chosen by librarians, then voted on by teens. So all are librarian approved!
https://sites.google.com/view/ga-peac...

Heaven Scent by Kristi Copeland

I read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

A librarian in my book club chose babel, also on the listopia, so I'll read that

I used the Ask for Suggestions form on my library's website today, and was given the books below. I told them I enjoyed and/or was looking for scifi/fantasy or romance with competent characters who weren't idiots, with a touch of humor.

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Escape from Yokai Land: A Laundry Files Novella by Charles Stross

I read Heaven Scent by Kristi Copeland

Dea wrote: "My husband is a librarian (elementary school media specialist). Here's some of his favorites…

Project Hail Mary
Starter Villain
Dune (all six main b..."
Awesome! Starter Villain is already on my stack!

My mum is a librarian and she recommends these books:

The House of the Spirits
(would also check the magical realism prompt)

A Room of One’s Own
(a feminist essay, could check the "genre you usually avoid" box)

Bartleby the Scrivener
(a short story about labour refusal set in Wall Street)

Heart of Darkness
(a short british classic set in Congo)

Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark

Excellent, finally picked mine. Saw this recommended by the University of Virginia Library:

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

I read First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde. The series was recommended to me by a friend who has a masters of library science. That's close enough to a librarian for me.

Dea wrote: "My husband is a librarian (elementary school media specialist). Here's some of his favorites…

Project Hail Mary
Starter Villain
Dune (all six main b..."

Many thanks to your husband! Here's my review of "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi:

http://www.lauraruthloomis.com/whats-...

Fran wrote: "I'm a librarian as well! Feel free to check out my 5 stars - I read mostly YA and queer romance. Also, I recommend that you read down your TBR pile this year, so consider everything on it librarian..."

Thank you for this, I think it's about time I finally get to Babel (at some point this yr)