Booklists for Adults & Teens

sad girl

Young Woman in a Blue Corset; Jeune Fille au Corset Bleu, 1891 (oil on canvas). Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 17 Apr 2025. quest.eb.com/images/108_5261992. Accessed 23 Jul 2025.

Sad Girl Literature

  "... we should just instead celebrate these books for what they are - character-driven stories that are a celebration of us. Women are multifaceted. We’re not always the paragon of virtue and good morals. We have bad days. We sleep with the wrong people. We sometimes have the urge to completely blow our lives apart. In short, we are human. And the more stories like this out there, the more stories like this we read, the more we might realise that we are not alone." ~Charlotte Walker, "Sad Girl Literature Explained: Dive into the Depths of Human Emotion"

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carnegie

What Andrew Carnegie Medal Winning Authors Want You to Read

(According to Booklist magazine)     

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Fiction that taught Kaveh Akbar how to write fiction
Kevin Fedarko's recommendations on wilderness, wildness, & natural wonders
Jiaming Tang recommends quiet, gentle absurdity
Riveting slices of 1980s history recommended by Adam Higginbotham

Walking

Books for Ramblers & Wanderers

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ICYMI

In Case You Missed It...

 Fiction books. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. 0-quest-eb-com.albuq.cabq.gov/search/132_1250711/1/132_1250711/cite. Accessed 1 Apr 2022.

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 Iceland, from an Atlas of the World in 33 maps, Venice, 1st September 1553 . Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. 0-quest-eb-com.albuq.cabq.gov/search/108_222119/1/108_222119/cite. Accessed 18 Oct 2022.

Adventures in Cartography

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