Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House By Kate Anderson This is a fascinating look into the residential life of Amer...

The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. 261 pages. Fiction. The UnAmericans is a brilliant collection of st...

Bark by Lorrie Moore Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 192 pages. Fiction. Bark  is a much anticipated second collection of short stories by Lorri...

The First Bad Man  By Miranda July First Scribner, 2015. 276 pages. Miranda July is a celebrated author, filmmaker, actress, visual and...

Coming of Age in Samoa: A  Psychological Study of   Primitive Youth for Western Civilization By Margaret Mead Morrow, 1961. 304 pages....

Euphoria By Lily King Atlantic Monthly, 2014. 256 pages. Fiction. Set in New Guinea during the early 1930's Euphoria tells the stor...

Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders Random House, 2013. 251 pages. Fiction. Tenth of December is a glittering collection of b...

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 339 pages. Fiction The lowland is a swampy area between two small lakes that flood ...

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Penguin Press, 2014. 297 pages. Fiction. The sudden and unexpected death of 16 year old Lydia...

We Are Not Ourselves By Matthew Thomas Sim on & Schuster, 2014. 620 pgs. Fiction We Are Not Ourselves is a take on the c...

Lila by Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. 261 pages. Fiction Lila is the third in a related series by Robinson (fi...

Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women's Local Impact By Neylan McBaine Greg Kofford Books, 2014. 189 pgs. Non-Fiction This is a ...

I Didn't Come Here to Make Friend: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain By Courtney Robertson It Books, 2014. 272 pgs. Non-Fiction ...

All the Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr Scribner, 2014. 544 pgs. Historical Fiction This book deserves all the herald and accla...

The Last Illusion By Porchista Khakpour There is an ancient Persian myth about a boy named Zal, born of a king, but raised by a large...

Thunderstruck  By Elizabeth McCracken Thunderstruck is a powerful collection of short stories by one of America's best contemporary li...

The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga Free Press, 2008. 304 pgs. The white tiger is rare in the animal kingdom, and so is Balram Halwai, ...

Astonish Me By Maggie Shipstead Alfred Knopf, 2014. 253 pgs.  Maggie Shipstead's second novel Astonish Me is nothing short o...

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage By Ann Pachett Harper, 2013. 306 pgs. Non-Fiction Ann Pachett is a well known and celebrated c...

The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards By Kristopher Jansma Viking, 2013. 254 pgs. Fiction This is a story about a story about a story. ...