Adults
Adult Reading Recommendations
There’s no better place than Cuyahoga County Public Library to discover your next great read. From our latest staff picks to the hottest bestsellers and Read Intuit personalized recommendations, we have you covered. We update this page with fresh recommendations every month.
Spotlight on Dad
Celebrate dad with this curated selection of fiction and nonfiction reads!
Talk with Her: A Dad's Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters
Kimberly Wolf
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
Fredrik Backman
Calico Joe
John Grisham
Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
Andrew McCarthy
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub
Spotlight on beach reads for Pride Month
Here comes the sun! Enjoy these books fit for Pride Month while you work on your tan this summer!
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
The Guncle
Steven Rowley
The Verifiers
Jane Pek
Something to Talk About
Meryl Wilsner
And There He Kept Her
Joshua Moehling
The Fake
Zoe Whittall
Staff Picks for Adults
See what we're reading in May!
The Disenchantment
Celia Bell
The Postcard
Anne Berest
Sugar, Spice, and Can't Play Nice
Annika Sharma
Paper Names
Susie Luo
Playing it Safe
Ashley Weaver
Cassandra in Reverse
Holly Smale
Bestsellers - Fiction
May 2023
All The Days of Summer
Nancy Thayer
Rogue Justice
Stacey Abrams
The Ferryman
Justin Cronin
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Tom Hanks
Identity
Nora Roberts
The Old Lion A Novel Theodore Roosevelt
Jeff Shaara
Bestsellers - Nonfiction
May 2023
Tell me Everything
Minka Kelly
Bread and How to Eat It
Rick Easton
Undaunted
Brooke Kroeger
Homegrown
Jeffrey Toobin
Building
Mark Ellison
Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
Lisa Belkin
Coming Soon - Fiction
May 2023
You Can't Stay Here Forever
Katherine Lin
My Magnolia Summer
Victoria Benton Frank
Watch Us Dance
Leila Slimani
The Girls of Summer
Katie Bishop
The Happiness Plan
Susan Mallery
All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby
Coming Soon - Nonfiction
May 2023
An Unspeakable Hope
Leon Ford
Taking Care
Sarah Digregorio
Midwest Pie
Meredith Pangrace
The Peacemaker
Ben Stein
Heartbeat of the Wild
David Quammen
America's Test Kitchen
The Healthy Back Kitchen
Spotlight on floral covers
Take a look at these blooming good books!
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
The Younger Wife
Sally Hepworth
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
Jayne Allen
The Far Field
Madhuri Vijay
The Singles Table
Sara Desai
Win Me Something
Kyle Lucia Wu
Spotlight on April Showers
There's no better way to spend an April showers kind of day than with these titles!
Fifty Words for Rain
Asha Lemmie
Weather Girl
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Rainbow Rainbow
Lydia Conklin
Wild Rain
Beverly Jenkins
Laughter in the Rain
Debbie Macomber
Annie's Rainbow
Fern Michaels
Spotlight on Extraordinary Ladies
Memoirs and Biographies for Women's History Month.
The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition
Amber Tamblyn, et al.
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
Nathalia Holt
We are the Troopers : The Women of the Winningest Team in Pro Football History
Stephen Guinan
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Dani Shapiro
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
Spotlight on Books with Great Plot Twists
Ten books to read if you love a juicy plot twist.
Bath Haus
P.J. Vernon
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Good as Gone
Amy Gentry
Goodnight Beautiful
Aimee Molloy
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
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