We Recommend

Champaign librarian faves

These lists link you straight to the catalog to find great reads fast. Stay tuned: we’ll keep adding to and updating these lists.

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Topical Recommendations

5/13 Repaint...Redo...Redecorate!
4/13 National Volunteer Week
4/13 Art-Related Mysteries
4/13 Best Time to Plant a Tree
4/13 Book Pages to Big Screen
4/13 The Art of Aging
3/13 Endangered Animals
2/13 Guns, Gun Ownership, and Gun Control in America
1/13 New Year, New Hobby
11/12 Gift Book Ideas for Children, Infants to Grade 2
11/12 Gift Book Ideas for Children, Grades 3 to 5
11/12 Gift Book Ideas for Adults
11/12 Gift Book Ideas for Teens
11/12 New Holiday Titles
11/12 New Holiday Fiction
11/12 A Horse, a Horse, My Kingdom for Horse!
10/12 Inspirational Fiction
10/12 Always Austen For those who love Jane
7/12 My Favorite Year(s) A whole year spent doing what?
5/12 New African American Fiction for 2012
4/12 Prepare for the Job Search: Eliminate the Fear
4/12 Science Experiments & Myth Busting
4/12 Killer Cleaning
3/12 Classic Rock ’n’ Roll Books
2/12 Happiness
2/12 Chefs, Stories, Recipes & More
2/12 Books Into Movies
2/12 The Hunger Games Read-alikes
2/12 African American Literature, The Classics
1/12 Civil War Sampler
1/12 BYOB Readers Recommend
1/12 Entertaining Indoors
10/11 Teen Books that Adults Love
9/11 It Happened Like This -- Memoirs
8/11 From a Distant Shore Modern American immigrant stories
6/11 Librarians on the Loose
5/11 Celebrating Mother's Day
4/11 Use It or Lose It Keep your brain fit and memory sharp
4/11 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
12/10 Observing Obama
11/10 Don’t Forget to Feed the Birds
8/10 Marigolds, Mulch, and Murder Fun reads for the end of summer
6/10 A Hat, a Coat, and a Gun Noir mystery & true crime for men
6/10 Fire & Endurance Merely the tip of our adventure-books iceberg
6/10 Container Gardening Tiny gardens = big satisfaction!
6/10 LGBT Pride Month Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender topics
4/10 Chinese Fiction from Chinese Authors

Repaint...Redo...Redecorate!

Copies of the book, The Help

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