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April 27th, 2021
Earlier this month, Libraries faculty, staff, students, and supporters shared their personal favorite books for National Library Week. If you would like to add some of our favorites to you own reading queue, we’ve compiled the whole list here, including whether or not each book is currently available in our catalog!
| Author’s Name (Last, First) | Title | Publisher | Pub. Year | In Purdue Libraries Catalog? |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Year of the Flood | Nan A. Talese/Doubleday | 2009 | Yes |
| Bach, Richard | The Bridge Across Forever | W. Morrow | 1984 | Yes |
| Carbonell, David A. | The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It | New Harbinger Publications, Inc. | 2016 | Yes |
| Cassidy, Kyle | This is What a Librarian Looks Like | Black Dog & Leventhal | 2017 | No |
| Chaplin, Charlie | My Autobiography | The Bodley Head | 1964 | Yes |
| Cline, Ernest | Ready Player Two | Century, 2020 | 2020 | No |
| Crow, Michael M. and Dabars, William B. | The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2020 | Yes |
| Dalal, Tarla | Mithai | Sanjay & Co. | 2002 | No |
| Diaz, Monica | From Intent to Impact | Networlding Publishing | 2020 | No |
| Dunn, Katherine | Geek Love | Knopf : Distributed by Random House | 1989 | Yes |
| Edwards, Julie | Mandy | HarperTrophy | 2006 | No |
| Gaiman, Neil and Pratchett, Terry | Good Omens | BBC Audiobooks | 2019 | No |
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables | Heritage Press | 1938 | Yes |
| Issacson, Walter | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Simon & Schuster | 2003 | Yes |
| Jemisin, N.K. | The Fifth Season | Orbit | 2015 | Yes |
| Josey, E.J. | The Black Librarian in America | Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press | 1970 | Yes |
| Kainan, Noga and Reuter, Adam | Israel: Island of Success | CreateSpace Independent Publishing platform | 2018 | No |
| Kamphoff, Cindra | Beyond Grit: Ten Powerful Practices to Gain the High-Performance Edge | Wise Ink | 2018 | No |
| Kendi, Ibram X. | How to Be An Antiracist | One World | 2019 | Yes |
| Kendi, Ibram X. and Blain, Keisha N. | Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 | One World | 2021 | Yes |
| Kotb, Hoda | This Just Speaks to Me | G. P. Putnam’s Sons | 2020 | No |
| Kuhn, Madisen | Eighteen Years | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | 2015 | No |
| Larson, Erik | The Splendid and the Vile | Harper Collins UK | 2021 | No |
| Leloup, Roger | Yoko Tsuno: le trio d l’etrange | J’AI LU | 2001 | No |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Macmillan | 1950 | Yes |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia | Macmillan | 1951 | Yes |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Macmillan | 1952 | Yes |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia, The Silver Chair | Macmillan | 1953 | Yes |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia, the Horse and His Boy | Macmillan | 1954 | Yes |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia, The Magician’s Nephew | Macmillan | 1955 | Yes |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Chronicles of Narnia, the Last Battle | Macmillan | 1956 | Yes |
| Loftis, Larry | The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones | Atria Books | 2021 | No |
| McKinley, Robin | Sunshine | Jove Books | 2004 | No |
| Morgenstern, Erin | The Night Circus | Doubleday | 2011 | Yes |
| Mosley, Walter | The Long Fall | Riverhead Books | 2009 | Yes |
| Mumford, Russell E. and Keller, Charles E. | The Birds of Indiana | Indiana University Press | 1984 | Yes |
| Nelson, Thomas and Lee, Richard | The American Patriot’s Bible: The Word of God and the Shaping of America | Thomas Nelson | 2012 | No |
| Noble, Safiya Umoja | Algorithms of Oppression | New York University Press | 2018 | Yes |
| Pacifico, Michele F. and Wilsted, Thomas P. | Archival and Special Collections Facilities: Guidelines for Archivists, Librarians, Architects, and Engineers | Society of American Archivists | 2009 | Yes |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Fight Club | W.W. Norton & Co. | 1996 | Yes |
| Putnam, Cara | Deadly Secrets on Mackinac Island | Whisper Valley Press, LLC | 2012 | No |
| Rosling, Hans |
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think |
Flatiron Books | 2018 | Yes |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Press | 1999 | Yes |
| Sanchez, Alex | Rainbow Boys | Simon Pulse, division of
Simon & Schuster |
2003 | No |
| Schwab, V.E. | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | Titan Books | 2020 | No |
| Smith, Laurence C. |
Rivers of Power: how a natural force raised kingdoms, destroyed civilizations, and shapes our world. |
Little Brown Spark | 2021 | No |
| St. John Mandel, Emily | Station Eleven | Alfred A. Knopf | 2014 | Yes |
| Stephenson, Neal | Cryptonomicon | New York : Harper Perennial | 2000 | Yes |
| Stevenson, Bryan | Just Mercy | Spiegel & Grau | 2014 | Yes |
| Stratton Porter, Gene | Her Father’s Daughter | Project Gutenberg | 1997 | Yes |
| Sutherland, Jeff and Sutherland, J.J. | SCRUM: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time | Random House | 2019 | No |
| Tatum, Beverly Daniel | Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria | Basic Books | 2003 | Yes |
| Thomas, Rhys | The Ruby Slippers of Oz | RCT Publications and Lulu.com | 2018 | No |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit | Ballantine Books | 1981 | Yes |
| Vester, Katharina | A Taste of Power: Food and American Identities | University of California Press | 2015 | Yes |
| Wilkerson, Isabel | Caste: the Origins of Our Discontent | Random House | 2020 | No |
| Wilkinson, Philip | Lego Architecture: The Visual Guide | Dorling Kindersley | 2014 | No |
| Worobiec, Tony | The Complete Guide to Digital Night & Low-Light Photography | David & Charles | 2010 | No |
| Zimmerman, Elizabeth | Knitting Around | Schoolhouse Press | 2000 | No |