We challenge you to expand your reading horizons this year. To that end, we’ve created a Reading Resolutions list just for you!
We would be happy to put any of these new books on hold for you! Download this Book Order Form (PDF) and return to us at your next Curbside Hold Pickup appointment.
Other ways to place holds:
- Call the Library at 262-532-8920
- Email your name, library card number, and hold requests to HoldRequests@menomonee-falls.org
- Click on any of the links below to log into our catalog and place the holds yourself
Read a Book Set in Wisconsin
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The day before his release from prison, Shadow’s wife is killed in an accident. On his way home, he meets Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and rogue, who offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard. With nowhere left to go, Shadow accepts, and unknowingly joins the battle between the gods of yore and the neoteric gods of present-day America.
More books set in Wisconsin
- The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters by Jerold Apps
- Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo
- Little Faith by Nickolas Butler
- Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
- Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen
- Black House by Stephen King
- The Optimist’s Guide to Letting Go by Amy E. Reichert
- Death Stalks Door County by Patricia Skalka
- Murder Most Sweet by Laura Jensen Walker
Read a Book in Dewey Class 791
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Fisher’s revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time – and what developed behind the scenes. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, it brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.
More books in Dewey Class 791
- The World According to Tom Hanks by Gavin Edwards
- Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
- Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter by Sidney Poitier
- Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr by Stephen Michael Shearer
- This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
- Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Rediscover a Classic
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. Poignant and moving, it is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, life and incident.
More classics to rediscover
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Native Son by Richard Wright
Read a Debut Novel
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. A novel about fate, power, opportunity, and class; about innocence and guilt, betrayal and love, and the corrosive media cycle that manufactures falsehoods masquerading as truths. Haunting and beautiful, brutal, vibrant – impossible to forget.
More debut novels
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
- The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
- A Time to Kill by John Grisham
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Read Every Season
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
A woman named Chicky turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests. Throughout the course of a week, they share laughter and the heartache of their respective challenges.
More books about the seasons
- Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
- New Spring by Robert Jordan
- Spring by Ali Smith
- Summer Deal by Jill Shalvis
- Deadly Summer by Denise Grover Swank
- Lost Autumn by Mary-Rose MacColl
- Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet
Read a Short Story or Poetry Collection
Selected Poems of Robert Frost
Over 100 of Frost’s best-known works, featuring the full contents of his first three volumes of poetry – A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval. This collection is a testament to the beauty of the master’s writing.
More short stories and poetry collections
- American Housewife by Helen Ellis
- Dear Life by Alice Munro
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
- The Best of Me by David Sedaris
- If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
- 100 Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) edited by Nikki Giovanni
- I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey
- Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
- Selected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong