The September list of Library Reads is now available.  The list is selected from nominations made by library staff across the country.  The most nominated book of the month is “Leave Me” by Gayle Forman about a woman who apparently has it all until a heart attack precipitates a crisis that leaves her fleeing her perfect life to head to Pittsburgh.  BookPage called it “an insightful ode to – and cautionary tale for – the overburdened working mother.”

          

Award-winning author, Ann Patchett, returns with the novel that she was compelled to write, “Commonwealth.”  It follows ten main characters spanning the entire country over 50 years.  It is her most autobiographical novel ever.

           

Alan Bradley returns to 12-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce who must solve a murder before Christmas in “Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d.”  And Genevieve Cogman continues her story of an alternate Victorian London began in “The Invisible Library” with “The Masked City.”

           

Librarians, of course, like books with librarians so “The Bookshop on the Corner” by Jenny Colgan stars a librarian who hits the road in a bookmobile.  Another recommendation is Dinah Jefferies’ novel that follows a young English bride in 1920s Ceylon whose husband just might be keeping secrets from her in “The Tea Planter’s Wife.” 

          

 “Daisy in Chains” by Sharon Bolton presents a defense attorney with many conflicts when a convicted serial killer wants her to prove his innocence while Kate Saunders’ heroine embarks on a new career as a private investigator in London in “The Secrets of Wishtide.”

           

‘Darktown” by Thomas Mullen is a police procedural with a twist since it is set in 1948 Atlanta where the police force has just hired its first African-Americans.

           

And “Blood at the Root” by National Book Award finalist, Patrick Phillips, examines another county in Georgia that in 1912 cast out its entire African-American population.

           

These books are scheduled for publication throughout the month of September.

           

The library will be closed this weekend for the Labor Day holiday and will resume regular hours on Tuesday, September 6, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.