Staff Picks

Staff-recommended reading and viewing for JUNE 2025.

Check back each month for a new list. Also check out our Goodreads Group for reviews, online bookclubs, and more!

PREVIOUS STAFF PICKS

May 2025
- But Not Too Bold
- Work Won't Love You Back
- The Fetishist
- Magic Knight Rayearth
- Secret Wars
- Of Love and Other Demons
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Pony Confidential
- The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
- The Serviceberry
April 2025
- Self-Made Boys
- The Pairing
- Freshwater
- Your Brain's Not Broken
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club
- Witch Hat Atelier
- The Serpent and the Wolf
- Unrig
- Moon Tiger
- I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com
March 2025
- Spotlights
- Doppelganger
- The Sociopath Next Door
- Briefly, a Delicious Life
- Eurotrash
- The Book of Hope
- The Wicked + the Divine
- Frankenstein
- Bride
- Light From Uncommon Stars
- The Jakarta Method
February 2025
- Toto
- Shigidi
- Delilah Green Doesn't Care
- Small Pleasures
- Palestine
- The Necessity of Exile
- Rebecca
- One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman
- The Art Thief
- Cobalt Red
January 2025
- Crush
- Kaiju
- The Bear and the Nightingale
- Dune
- An Inconvenient Cop
- When Crack Was King
- These Burning Stars
- Tai Chi
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The Count of Monte Cristo
December 2024
- When the Clock Broke
- Make the Season Bright
- Loud
- Deadly Nightshade
- All Is Found
- The Future is Disabled
- Shady Hollow
- Indigenous DC
- The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
- Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands
November 2024
- Human Acts
- Things Don't Break on Their Own
- The Mayflower
- The Dispossessed
- Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me
- The Vegetarian
- Polar Vortex
- Wonderbook
- Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
- Probably Ruby
October 2024
- Gideon the Ninth
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us
- The Night Guest
- The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
- This Close to Okay
- The Sunset Years of Agnes
- Listen for the Lie
- If We Burn
- Mister Magic
- Wyrd Sisters
September 2024
- Lessons for Survival
- Leviathan Wakes
- My Lady Jane
- Motherless Daughters
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- A Sorceress Comes to Call
- The Tainted Cup
- Fervor
- Fusion Strategy
August 2024
- Today Will Be Different
- Against the Loveless World
- Octavia's Brood
- Orientalism
- Garden Spells
- Pure America
- The Perks of Loving a Wallflower
- Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
- The Golden Spoon
July 2024
- Icarus
- We Were the Lucky Ones
- Agatha Christie
- A Stranger in the House
- Wonder
- Cut Loose!
- Filterworld
- Mercury
- Slow Down
- Old Crimes
June 2024
- Gender Queer
- The Villa
- Text Me When You Get Home
- Hero of Two Worlds
- Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
- Is This Normal?
- Wild Things
- The Reign of Wolf 21
- Daisy Darker
- I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
May 2024
- The Little Red Chairs
- The Sympathizer
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- A Most Agreeable Murder
- Ace
- Thelma the Unicorn
- Your House Will Pay
- We All Want Impossible Things
- The Fetishist
- Swiss Vendetta
April 2024
- The Silent Patient
- A Friend for Henry
- Solitaire
- Riding Freedom
- The Hanged Man of Conakry
- Paris
- What Red Was
- Come As You Are
- A Kind of Spark
- A Kind of Spark
- Murder is A Piece of Cake
March 2024
- Night Side of the River
- She-Hulk
- The Final Girl Support Group
- Bath Haus
- Brooklyn
- The Bee Sting
- Women Talking
- Brave the Wild River
- Dark Earth
- A Court of Mist and Fury
February 2024
- It Happened on Saturday
- The Consequences
- Hyberbole and a Half
- My Brother's Husband
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
- White Bird
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Wild and Distant Seas
- The Revolutionary Temper
January 2024
- A Rip Through Time
- Rebecca
- Better Late Than Never
- A Woman Is No Man
- This Is Major
- Foster
- Village of Secrets
- Extremely Online
- Lady Tan's Circle of Women
- Bookshops & Bonedust
December 2023
- Dog On It
- The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
- We Spread
- The Woman In Me
- Eight Dates and Nights
- Emily of New Moon
- Atomic Habits
- Blackmail and Bibingka
- Unbroken
- Death Valley
November 2023
- The Luminaries
- The Werewolf of Paris
- Motherthing
- The Sentence
- Winter Counts
- The Last House on Needless Street
- Every Heart a Doorway
- Victory City
- Our Best Intentions
- Someone Else's Shoes
October 2023
- Solito
- Sabrina & Corina
- Masters of Death
- Godkiller
- Juniper & Thorn
- I'll Give You The Sun
- The Skin and Its Girl
- When Crack Was King
- The Monsters We Defy
- Why We Meditate
September 2023
- Olga Dies Dreaming
- Raw Dog
- We See Each Other
- Kaiju
- Thornhedge
- Bookworm
- Mr. Mercedes
- The Tiger Rising
- My Murder
- Winter Counts
August 2023
- The Librarianist
- The Appeal
- The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
- 56 Days
- The Splendid and the Vile
- Pretty Young Rebel
- Ride-Or-Die
- The Woman in the Library
- The Virgin Suicides
- Spinning
June 2023
- The Myth of Normal
- Spare
- This Other Eden
- Shrek!
- The Change
- This Delicious Death
- Station Eleven
- Heartbroke
- D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
- Lore Olympus
May 2023
- Alias Anna
- The Measure
- We Were Witches
- The Waiting
- The Man Who Died Twice
- Dial A for Aunties
- Dear Child
- Call Down the Hawk
- Chrysanthemum
- Heart of the Sun Warrior
April 2023
- Paper Girls
- Girls Like Me
- Cursed Bunny
- A Thousand Times
- Black Cake
- American Royalty
- The God of Endings
- An American Sunrise
- How Moon Fuentez
March 2023
- mad honey
- fruiting bodies
- the feminine mystique
- my grandmother's hands
- the color of water
- american fire
- get it together
- thousand cranes
- just as i am
- forest walking
February 2023
- The Marrow Thieves
- The Snow Child
- This Is How It Always Is
- Writers & Lovers
- The Book Eaters
- The Cabinet
- Wish You Were Here
- Stony the Road
- The Never Tilting World
- Investing 101
January 2023
- sweetgrass
- years
- magic
- winter
- time
- text
- sokcho
- dancing
- nightcrawling
- daughter
December 2022
- snail
- starless
- defy
- south
- naked
- lore
- vegan
- afong
- indians
- bee
November 2022
- everything
- collector
- king
- first
- there
- crawdads
- caleb's
- heroines
- departures
- haunting
October 2022
- well
- witch
- inheritance
- highway
- mexican
- eyre
- house
- honey
- castle
- witch
September 2022
- dirt
- delphine
- heaven
- tea
- alice
- sit
- history
- yes
- apprentice
- korean
August 2022
- brooklyn
- artcurious
- nettle
- broken
- rare
- maud
- fascism
- girls
- psalm
- wahala
July 2022
- kaikeyi
- brass
- sleepless
- precious
- bomb
- bluest
- westaway
- damnation
- nimona
- fevered
June 2022
- immune
- lesser
- lemon
- braid
- cerulean
- legion
- fencing
- peace
May 2022
- talk
- famine
- well
- eragon
- breasts
- molly
- love
- gates
- amsterdam
- edge
April 2022
- true
- chouette
- seek
- heartstopper
- sophia
- chernobyl
- one-straw
- rage
- hatmakers
- edge
March 2022
- psalm
- jade
- code
- queen
- pachinko
- yolk
- angels
- papi
- theater
- period
February 2022
- woods
- place
- oliphant
- squad
- ringquist
- quanders
- almost
- covid
- systems
- jane
January 2022
- nothing
- girl
- pick
- skye
- creature
- hating
- coat
- war
December 2021
- Just Mercy
- Crying in H Mart
- Road Ends
- Whodunit crime puzzles
- Catwings
- Prianesi
- Interior Chinatown
- Smoke
- Broke in America
- Hunt, Gather, Parent
November 2021
- city baker's
- three women
- devi
- betty
- wounded knee
- unsettled ground
- migrations
- small pleasures
- circe
- trio
October 2021
- Thursday
- Guest
- Frangipani
- Broken
- Plot
- Luck
- Nowhere
- Huddle
- Being
- Said
September 2021
- Dolly
- tree
- epic
- tiger
- ban
- emotion
- forest
- mindful
- twelve
- shop
August 2021
- thick
- among
- vanessa
- coffee
- elephant
- space
- librarian
- summer
July 2021
- sigh
- maiden
- audre
- rosaline
- alligator
- dust
- aardvark
- distraction
- hex
June 2021
- dead
- Cerulean Sea
- Stamped
- One to watch
- Maud Dixon
- Goodbye
- lamplighters
- Hmart
- Maine
- Cemetery boys
May 2021
- darker
- feather
- death
- save
- stewards
- vegetarian
- face
- traitor
- six
- super
April 2021
- bird
- never
- evelyn
- door
- fox
- poem
- hill
- rosy
- mountain
- greenwood
March 2021
- lovecraft
- something
- agatha
- swim
- blackout
- plow
- rage
- talk
- ends
- men in kilts
January/February 2021
- spell bound
- Riviera gold
- That Time of Year
- Wind
- braiding
- curse
- lost queen
- Rambling
- maybe
- color law
December 2020
- women
- memory
- dickens
- world
- owl
- group
- witches
- mill
- foe
- freedom
November 2020
- Leonard and Hungry Paul : a novel
- Barnaby Mayne
- A song below water
- Seven lies
- The kitchen god's wife
- My name is Resolute
- Loving
- A children's bible : a novel
- Stand up straight and sing!
- slave's cause
September 2024
October 2020
- Lockwood
- Turn Key
- Knife
- Watch
- Pull Stars
- Lacks
- Weather
- Run Eat
- Starless

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STAFF PICKS

Staff-recommended reading and viewing for JUNE 2025.

PREVIOUS STAFF PICKS

Last updated: June 2025

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