2024 Holiday Closures

The Gibson Memorial Library will be closed December 24th, December 25th, and January 1st. The Gibson Memorial Library will close early at 4 PM on December 31st.

Reading Challenge 2024

 

Graphic Novels

Titles available for check out through Gibson Memorial Library

Hey, Kiddo
by Jarret J. Krosoczka

Maus: My Father Bleeds History (Maus #1)
by Art Spiegelman

The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
by Margaret Atwood

Huda F Are You?
by Huda Fahmy

Squire
by Nadia Shammas

Witches: The Complete Collection
by Daisuke Igarashi

Arca
by Van Jensen

American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang

Watchmen
by Alan Moore

Titles available for check out through Libby

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded
by Jim Ottaviani

Saga Vol. 1
byBrian K. Vaughan

Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
by Anthony Bourdain

Flamer
by Mike Curato

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir
by Ellen Forney

Skim
by Mariko Tamaki

 

Biographies/Memoirs/Based on Real Life Events

Titles available for check out through Gibson Memorial Library

I'm Glad My Mom Died
by Jennette McCurdy

Green Lights
by Matthew McConaughey

Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner

The Woman in Me
by Britney Spears

Titles available for check out through Libby

Pageboy: A Memoir
by Elliot Page

Madly, Deeply: the Diaries of Alan Rickman
by Alan Rickman

Jim Henson: The Biography
by Brian Jay Jones

 

National Book Award

Titles available for check out through Gibson Memorial Library

The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett

All My Rage
by Sabaa Tahir

An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones

So Much For That
by Lionel Shriver

The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride

Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo

Bewilderment
by Richard Powers

Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward

Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan

Lila
by Marilynne Robinson

Some Luck
by Jane Smiley

This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Diaz

Someone
by Alice McDermott

Fleishman Is In Trouble
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

News of the World
by Paulette Jiles

Titles available for check out through Libby

Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee

Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann

Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel

Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart

Florida
by Lauren Groff

Chain-Gang All-Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

This Other Eden
by Paul Harding

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by Erika L. Sanchez

The Leavers
by Lisa Ko

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
by Sonora Reyes

The Memory Police
by Yoko Ogawa

The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson

Tastes Like War
by Grace M. Cho

Monster
by Walter Dean Myers

We Are Not Free
by Traci Chee

 

Poetry/Essays/Short Stories

Titles available for check out through Gibson Memorial Library

The Hill We Climb
by Amanda Gorman

Trigger Warning
by Neil Gaiman

Beautiful Days
by Joyce Carol Oates

Black Phone: Stories
by Joe Hill

Collected Essays
by James Baldwin

Titles available for check out through Libby

Milk and Honey
by Rupi Kaur

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
by Lana Del Rey

Poems
by Emily Dickinson

Ricochet
by Seymour Mayne

Apple Skin to the Core
by Eric Gainsworth

Never Whistle at Night
by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury

 

Iowa Ties

Titles available for check out through Gibson Memorial Library

Great Circle
by Maggie Shipstead

Outlawed
by Anna North

Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi

Burying the Lede
by Joesph Levalley

Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut

28 Summers
by Elin Hilderbrand

Titles available for check out through Libby