Patch Picks: Local Librarian Book Recommendations

Every Thursday, Patch will run a new weekly feature called "Patch Picks," highlighting editor and reader picks of great local businesses, destinations, services, organizations, ways to spend a day off and more. 

You’ll find useful lists to help you, your family, friends, and significant others find the best places for everything, including Sunday brunch, New Year’s Eve celebrations, pumpkin patches, date night destinations, florists, girlfriend nights out, children's party places, parks and more.

Below you will find a list of 10 suggested books from multiple genres ranging in age from children to adults. The suggestions were made by the staff at our local (which is attached to the UD township building in case you didn't know):

Picture Book
A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip Stead

Children’s Fiction
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
The Familiars by Adam Epstein

Children’s Nonfiction
Bones by Steve Jenkins
Just One Bite by Lola Schaefer

Teen Fiction
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Matched by Ally Condie

Adult Fiction
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Unwritten by Mike Carey & Peter Gross (graphic novel)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Adult Nonfiction
The Last Boy : Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach