Shelf Selected Book Lists

 

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FEBRUARY 2022

February 23, 2022
Topic: YA Black Boy Joy and Black Girl Magic

February 16, 2022
Topic: Satisifying Endings


February 9, 2022
Topic: Unpopular Opinions on Popular Books (and Other Suggestions)

February 2, 2022
Topic: Legal/Crime Dramas That Aren't by John Grisham, Michael Connelly, James Grippando...

JANUARY 2022
January 26, 2022
Topic: New YA Romance

January 12, 2022
Topic: Epically Long Novels

January 5, 2022
Topic: Resolution Inspiration

DECEMBER 2021
December 29, 2021
Topic: Favorites and Disappointments of 2021

December 22, 2021
Topic: Reflective Reads

December 15, 2021
Topic: Heartwarming Stories

December 8, 2021
Topic: Holiday Desserts!

December 1, 2021
Topic: Fairy Tales Retold

NOVEMBER 2021
November 24, 2021
Topic: YA BFFs

November 17, 2021
Topic: Family Sagas

November 10, 2021
Topic: Cookbooks

November 3, 2021
Topic: Native American Heritage Month

OCTOBER 2021
October 27, 2021
Topic: Witchy YA

October 20, 2021
Topic: Spooky, Creepy, & Gory Horror

October 13, 2021
Topic: Terrifyingly True Crimes

October 6, 2021
Topic: Mystery Series Starters

SEPTEMBER 2021
September 29, 2021
Topic: YA Banned Books

September 22, 2021
Topic: Banned Books

September 15, 2021
Topic: Graphic Novels to Start Reading Graphic Novels

September 8, 2021
Topic: Pirate Adventures!


September 1, 2021
Topic: Back to School Romances: Fall-ing for You


AUGUST 2021
August 25, 2021
Topic: Outer Banks Readalikes

August 18, 2021
Topic: Happy Reads :D

August 11, 2021
Topic: Space!

August 4, 2021
Topic: Set in Wisconsin

JULY 2021

July 28, 2021
Topic: YA Shark Week

July 21, 2021
Topic: Food Books


July 14, 2021
Topic: A French Je Ne Sais Quoi

July 7, 2021
Topic: The Great American Novel in 2021

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald                                  
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan                     
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee                                        
  • The Round House by Louise Erdrich                                         
  • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones                                  
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck                                
  • Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett                                          
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen                                                 
  • Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar


JUNE 2021

June 30, 2021
Topic: YA Fairy Tale Retellings

June 23, 2021
Topic: Quick Reads!

June 16, 2021
Topic: National Dairy Month

June 9, 2021
Topic: LGBTQ Pride

June 2, 2021
Topic: National Outdoors Month

MAY 2021

May 25, 2021
Topic: YA LGBTQ+

May 19, 2021
Topic: Short Stories

May 12, 2021
Topic: Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month


May 5, 2021
Topic: Latinx for Cinco de Mayo


APRIL 2021

April 28, 2021
Topic: YA Survival Stories

Topic: YA "Life After High School"

April 21, 2021
Topic: And the Nominees Are

April 14, 2021
Topic: Novels in Verse

April 7, 2021
Topic: Spring Out of a Reading Slump


MARCH 2021

March 31, 2021
Topic: YA Funny Books

March 17, 2021
Topic: Green Covers

March 10, 2021
Topic: Strong Female Protagonists

March 3, 2021
Topic: Staff Picks

FEBRUARY 2021

February 24, 2021
Topic: YA Books With Little to No Romance

February 17, 2021
Topic: New Black Stories by Black Authors

February 10, 2021
Topic: New YA Black Stories by Black Authors

February 3, 2021
Topic: New Romance

JANUARY 2021

January 24, 2021
Topic: New YA Romance

January 20, 2021
Topic: New NFL Nonfiction Books

January 13, 2021
Topic: Books for New Year's Resolutions

January 6, 2021
Topic: Family Games

DECEMBER 2020

December 30, 2020

Topic: Fitness DVDs

December 23, 2020
Topic: YA Holiday and Winter Books

December 16, 2020
Topic: New Christmas Books

December 9, 2020
Topic: New and Favorite Holiday Movies

NOVEMBER 2020

November 25, 2020
Topic: Best of YA 2020 YA Fantasy & Science Fiction

 

Shelf Selected (Children's Edition)
Mondays at 6:30 p.m. on Facebook Live and Instagram Live

May 2022
Mix & Match 

Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe
The Hungry Ghosts by Miguel Flores
Sleepy Stories by Mario Levrero & Diego Bianki
Little Kids First Big Book of Baby Animals by Maya Myers & National Geographic Kids
Love is for Roaring by Mike Kerr; illustrated by Renata Liwska
Most People by Michael Leannah; illustrated by Jennifer E. Morris
The World Needs More Purple People by Kristen Bell & Benjamin Hart; illustrated by Daniel Wiseman
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones & Renee Watson; illustrated by Nikkolas Smith

 

APRIL 2022
Books in Verse

Bird by Zetta Elliot; illustrated by Shadra Strickland
Beauty Woke by NoNieqa Ramos; illustrated by Paola Escobar
Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The House in the Night by Susan  Marie Swanson; illustrated by Beth Krommes
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep by Mother Goose; illustrated by Moira Kemp
The Me I Choose to Be by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley; illustrated by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt
 

MARCH 2022

March 7, 2022
Books Featuring Women


RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone by Nadine Epstein
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont; illustrated by David Catrow
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee; illustrated by Megan Halsey & Sean Addy
Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride by Andrew Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney
Unforgotten: the Wild Life of Dian Fossey and Her Relentless Quest to Save Mountain Gorillas by Anita Silvey
 

FEBRUARY 2022

February 28, 2022
#OwnVoices & Diverse Reads

February 21, 2022
Nonfiction about Black Traditions, History and Trailblazers

February 14, 2022
Library Lover's Day

 

February 7th, 2022
Illustrations Staff Love

 

JANUARY 2022

January 24, 2022
Staff Favorite Picks

January 24, 2022
Family & Self Acceptance

January 17, 2022
Animals & Individuality 

January 10, 2022
Growth & Grief

  • Winter Sleep: A Hibernation Story by Sean Taylor 
  • The Bedtime Book by Todd Parr
  • Beautifully Me by Nabela Noor
  • Something Good by Marcy Campbell
  • Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake 
  • Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick 
  • Hide and Don't Seek: and other very scary stories by Anica Mrose Rissi
  • National Geographic Kids Almanac (2022) by National Geographic Society 

January 3, 2022
Emotions & Adventures

 

NOVEMBER 2021

November 8, 2021
Books by and about Native Americans

November 1, 2021
Cozy Reads

OCTOBER 2021

October 25, 2021
Halloween Reads

October 18, 2021
Pirates!

October 11, 2021
Dragons!

SEPTEMBER 2021

September 27, 2021

September 20, 2021
"Fall" into Reading

September 13, 2021
Food and Cooking

AUGUST 2021

August 30, 2021
Back-to-School!

Check out our full list of back-to-school books at Go Oshkosh Kids: https://gooshkoshkids.com/back-to-school-book-list-for-kids/

August 23, 2021

August 9, 2021
Storms and Weather

JULY 2021

July 26, 2021
Aviation

JUNE 2021

June 21, 2021
History and Historical Fiction

June 14, 2021
Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery

June 7, 2021
Outdoorsy Books

MAY 2021

May 24, 2021
Summer Fun!

May 17, 2021
Slightly Scary Stories

May 10, 2021
Take me out to the ballgame!

May 3, 2021
All about Birds!

APRIL 2021

April 26, 2021

April 19, 2021

April 12, 2021

April 4, 2021

MARCH 2021

March 29, 2021

March 22, 2021

March 15, 2021

March 8, 2021

March 2, 2021
Local 5 Live Morning Show
Recommendations

Librarian Matthew Tessmer dropped by WFRV’s morning show Local 5 Live on March 2, 2021 to share some fresh reading suggestions in celebration of National Read Across America Day.

March 1, 2021

FEBRUARY 2021

February 15, 2021

February 8, 2021

February 1, 2021

JANUARY 2021

January 25, 2021

January 18, 2021

January 11, 2021

January 4, 2021