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How it All Began – Series Starters

Posted about 4 weeks ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, books in series, Fiction, reading suggestions

Are you mad for books in series? Me, too! I love books in series, but also have a compulsion that I. Must. Read. Series. In. Order. Sometimes this proves difficult. […]

Dark Academia and Gothic fiction

Posted about 2 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, ghosts, haunted houses, horror, mystery, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #rplrecommends, dark academia, Fiction, gothic fiction, reading suggestions

WHO’S BAD? Worst reviews, and the books, music and movies that provoked them.

Posted about 6 months ago by Alfreda Payton

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with book reviews, movie reviews, music, reading suggestions

In early January 2023, HBO Max and TV writer-producer, Charlie Grandy had the idea to launch a redux of the 1970’s Scooby-Doo and the Gang cartoon, but with a diverse […]

Black History Books: A 2023 Review

Posted about 10 months ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Award Winners, Black History Month, diverse reads, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, Black History Month, nonfiction, reading suggestions

In Virginia, it is generally believed that African American History began with the importation of West Africans into Jamestown in 1619. After the Civil War, the Daughters of the Confederacy […]

Cozy Reads for these Long Winter Nights

Posted about 10 months ago by Lindy Gellings

Posted in Adult, crafts and hobbies, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, book recommendations, health and wellness, nonfiction, reading suggestions

RPL Staff’s Most Anticipated Reads of 2023

Posted about 11 months ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Adult, diverse reads, Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens | Tagged with #2023books, #mostanticipated, book recommendations, newyearnewbooks, reading suggestions, readingrecommendations, rplreads, staff picks

With a new year brings lots of excitement surrounding the release of new books. And, no one is more excited for these than our staff here at Richmond Public Library. […]

The Ultimate Annual Richmond Public Library Staff Pick List: 2022 Edition

Posted about 11 months ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, bestof2022, book recommendations, favoritebooks, reading suggestions, readingrecommendations, rplreads, staff picks

Here’s to one more year in the books! We hope you’ve had as great a reading year as we’ve had. We love recommending great books all year long, but we […]

Read a Celeb Memoir — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens

Posted about 1 year ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with aradreadingchallenge, book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, ireadya, reachingchallenge, reading suggestions, readingchallenge2022, teenreads

Hey hey readers! Welcome back to my next installment of the RAD Reading Challenge…RPL Style! For those of you that are new here, I’ve taken on local book blogger Rachel […]

Read a Book with a Cover You Love — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens

Posted about 1 year ago by Jennifer Deuell

Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted about the RAD Reading Challenge. If you didn’t already know, I was out on maternity leave. But I’m back now and ready to […]

Common Book Reading List

Posted about 1 year ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Award Winners, book discussions, Book Reviews, diverse reads, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, VCU Common Book | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, health and wellness, nonfiction, reading suggestions

We hope you are looking forward to the upcoming programs that the Richmond Public Library has planned in support of the 2022 VCU Common Book, The Organ Thieves. Whether you […]