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We recommend!

Brooklyn Public Library's own librarians offer reading recommendations for a wide array of interests and age groups.

This week we recommend:
Book Notes from the Underground


Browse one of the following lists for further recommendations…

Staff Picks

Book Notes from the Underground
Brooklyn Presents
Children's Book Nook
Crime Story: New Mystery & Suspense Titles
Poetry for Teens
TFT: Explosive Teen Books
Timely Topics
Timely Topics for Kids
If you liked Harry ... For Kids
If you liked Harry ... For Teens

Authors and Illustrators

Author Directory
Meet The Author
Meet the Illustrator

En Español

ENCIENDE TU MENTE

Movies: Staff Picks

Art House Cinema

Also try a bestseller or award winner below!

Book Awards Adult and Genre

ALA Black Caucus Selections
ALA Fiction Notable Books
ALA Nonfiction Notable Books
Audie Awards
Edgar Hugo
Nebula
National Book Awards for Fiction
National Book Awards for Nonfiction
National Book Awards for Poetry
Oprah Book Club Selections
PEN/Faulkner Awards
Pulitzer Award for Biography
Pulitzer Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Award for History
Pulitzer Award for Nonfiction
Pulitzer Award for Poetry

Book Lists and Awards for Children and Young Adults

Américas Book Award
Buckeye Children's Book Awards
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
Coretta Scott King Awards
Caldecott Medal
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Newbery Medal
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Printz Awards
Pura Belpré Award
Robert F. Silbert International Book Medal
Schneider Family Award

Bestsellers

Fiction Hardcover
Mass Market
Nonfiction Hardcover
Trade Paperback


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