Readers Advisory
Plano Reads: The Year’s Best – Staff Favorites for 2023
Here are some of the books we’ve liked most in the past year — we hope you’ll enjoy them, too!
Plano Reads: Writers on Writing
In recognition of November’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), we offer these books on writing and the writing process. “National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the […]
Teen Street Team Reads & Reviews: Radha and Jai’s Recipe for Romance
Teen Street Team member Shubhi submitted this review for Radha and Jai’s Recipe for Romance by Nisha Sharma. Radha knows what she wants. She has worked her way up to becoming a top-class Kathak dancer, and is sure that is what she wants to do in her life. Or is it? When an unexpected turn […]
Plano Reads: Horrifying Halloween!
Scary October has arrived! Thrills and chills await adult readers who try one of these titles, suited to this spooky season of the year… Phantoms in Fiction Bird Box by Josh Malerman – Something is out there… something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows […]
Plano Reads: Novels for a New School Year
As a new school year gets underway, consider trying one of these titles. All are fiction favorites and campus classics! Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan – Four very different first-year students—Celia, Bree, Sally, and April—are assigned to the same Smith College dorm, and together they experience the challenges of academic life and early adulthood. Four years […]
Plano Reads: Meteors, Space and Stars
Here are fiction and nonfiction titles for August, the month in which the Perseid Meteor is visible in the night sky. Enjoy these imaginative journeys among the stars!
Plano Reads: Summer Foods, Best Eaten Outside…
Here are some great cookbooks to help you plan delightful summer meals, just right for the warmest months of the year.
Plano Reads: Vacation Season!
Here is some ideal reading for the beginning of summer’s travel and vacation season – why not take one of these books along, no matter how you choose to make your trip?
Plano Reads: Island Mysteries
For our June Mystery Book Club meeting, we are diving into Island Mysteries. Tag along as we explore this twist on the well-loved subgenre of locked-room mysteries. Join us in-person at Davis Library or virtually through Zoom on Thursday, June 15 at 7 pm. If you would like to attend virtually, you can register online […]
Plano Reads: Mexico and Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo has become a popular holiday for many Americans. Here some titles which introduce and celebrate the literature, history, and cultural traditions of Mexico, the neighbor many Texans know well.