As the school year starts up and Summer Reading comes to an end, Yonkers Public Library patrons came together on Zoom on August 19th for our bi-monhtly Book Chat! We spend an hour sharing what books we’re reading and what we plan to add to our TBR list.
If you’re looking for your next read - or if you’re trying to get one final book completed before Summer Reading ends on September 15 - check out some of these books and authors we discussed at Book Chat.
Keep an eye on our event calendar. Book Chat is typically hosted on a bi-monhtly basis on Tuesdays at 10:30 AM, so we will be meeting again in October.
Book Club Announcements:
Yonkers Public Library offers a wide variety of book clubs both in-person and online for you to enjoy! Check out our upcoming schedule of book clubs below:
- Adult Online Book Club: The Great Gatsby on Thursday, September 11 at 7:15 PM on Zoom
- Mystery/Thriller Book Club: The House on Biscayne Bay on Thursday, September 18 at 2:30 PM at Will Library
- Rather Be Reading Book Club: A Long Petal of the Sea on Wednesday, September 24 at 2:30 PM at Will Library
- Forever Young Adult Book Club: The Lies We Conjure on Thursday, September 25 at 7:00 PM on Zoom
- History Book Club: A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue on Wednesday October 1 at 10:30 AM on Zoom
Upcoming Virtual Author Talks:
The YPL Presents: Virtual Author series is funded and supported by the Foundation for the Yonkers Public Library. You can check out the full calendar of upcoming virtual author talks online, but here are a few author talks coming up in September.
- Virtual Author Talk: Communication Expert Jefferson Fisher The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More, Wednesday, September 10 | 2 pm
- Virtual Author Talk: Gabe Henry On why the English spelling of words is just … weird, Wednesday, September 17 | 2 pm
Grow Your TBR List
Check out some of the titles we discussed at Book Chat, organized by genre, and a few recommended authors.
Fiction
- Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
- The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
- Mansion Beach by Meg Mitchell Moore
- Odder by Katherine Applegate
- Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson-Wheeler
- The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb
- This Thing of Ours by Frederick Joseph
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Historical Fiction
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
- A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear
- Silent Melody by Mary Balogh
- The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
- The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
- The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
- These Days by Lucy Caldwell
- Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins
- The Scrapbook by Heather Clark
- 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen
- The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Romance
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
- Write Me For You by Tillie Cole
- Never Thought I'd End Up Here by Ann Liang
- Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey
- The Love Haters by Katherine Center
- Maid for Each Other by Lynn Painter
- Crash Landing by Annie McQuaid
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Mystery/Thriller
- The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue
- The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
- A Better Man by Louise Penny
- The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
- A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
- God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
- Hotel Ukraine by Martin Cruz Smith
- Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
- Open Season by Jonathan Kellerman
Fantasy
- Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire
- Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
- The Primal of Blood and Bone: A Blood and Ash Novel by Jennifer Armentrout
- The Palace of Illusions by Rowenna Miller
Non-Fiction
- Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II by Becky Aikman
- Never Give Up on a Kid: The Chronicles of the Life and Career of Emilio "Dee" DaBramo, educator/humanitarian extraordinaire by David Hennessy
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
- The Soul of An Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Author Spotlight
- James McBride, Author of Deacon King Kong and The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, Winner of the 2024 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
- Jamie Brenner, USA Today bestselling author of contemporary fiction and "beach reads" such as The Forever Summer and A Novel Summer
- Sara Flannery Murphy, author of thrillers such as The Wonder State
Alison Robles, a Yonkers native, received an MS in Information and Library Science from the University at Buffalo. She works at the Crestwood Library and is an avid reader with a passion for YA lit, historical fiction, and fantasy.