What's your Reading Resolution?

What's your Reading Resolution? More books? More variety in your selections? Read the classics? Join a book club? Think about it, and have a happy and healthy New Year!

What were the best books of 2012?

Wondering if you missed anything good? Check out these "best" lists of books:

Amazon's Best Books  List 2012

Goodreads Choice Awards 2012

Booklist Top of the List Selections 2012

Happy reading into 2013!

Holiday Hours

The holidays are fast approaching! Just  a reminder that we are closed on Monday, December 24, Tuesday, December 25, and Tuesday, January 1. We will be closing early on Monday, December 31, at 5 p.m.

Seasonal Reading and Media

Stop by our book and media display in our gallery. We've purchased many of the classic holiday movies for you to borrow, and we have fiction, and non-fiction titles to put you in the holiday mood.

Book Discussion Club Meeting Date in December

Because the 4th Monday of the month is Christmas Eve, the Riverdale Public Library Book Discussion will meet on Monday, December 17, at 6:30 p.m. Room by Emma Donaghue is the book selection for discussion. Copies of the book are available at the front desk.

Seasons Reading

Many authors like to put out a holiday title. Which ones? James Patterson, M.C. Beaton, Richard Paul Evans, Anne Perry, Debbie Macomer, Fern Michaels, and Melody Carson to name a few.

Whether heartfelt stories or a mystery (Mysterynet has a great list of Christmas mysteries), check our catalog for some readings to enhance the season  MAIN Catalog

National Book Awards

The National Book Awards will be announced on November 14, 2012.

Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.


The finalists for Fiction are:

Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group USA, Inc.)
Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King (McSweeney's Books)
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds (Little, Brown and Company)

For a complete list, check out The National Book Award