May 2026

Monthly Themed Reading Lists for Adults

Themed lists curated by your local librarians. Discover and rediscover books in the local collection based on monthly reading themes!

Eat What You Want Day Reads

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Eat What You Want Day comes around each year on May 11th. Enjoy these books that celebrate food!

An appetite for Violets                           

Delicious!                       

Food Whore       

Love & Other Disasters

Midnight at the Blackbird Café  

Taste : My Life Through Food       

The Baker's Secret                          

The cookbook Collector            

The Golden Spoon                                          

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris 

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake            

The Pumpkin Spice Cafe               

Books Featured in The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

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Dear Reader,

“The Correspondent” is the sleeper hit novel of 2025, beloved by readers because it inspires nostalgia for life lived at a slower, postal-delivery pace. The protagonist, Sybil Van Antwerp, communicates via letters and emails. She is an avid reader who loves to discuss books and write letters to her favorite authors. Readers are determined to read Sybil’s book list and we’ve joined in! Here are 12 books from our library collection found in “The Correspondent.”

  • The Complete Stories: Vol 1

  • Crossing to Safety

  • The Fellowship of the Ring

  • To the Lighthouse

  • Inferno

  • Lonesome Dove

  • Murder on the Orient Express

  • Never Let Me Go

  • Outlander

  • To the Lighthouse

  • The War of the Worlds

  • Wuthering Heights

  • The Year of Magical Thinking