Staff Picks

Kids: 2025 MCPL Children's Staff Favorites

January Staff Picks List

  • Don't Trust Fish


  • Fresh Start


  • Every Monday Mabel


  • A Little Like Magic


  • A World Without Summer


  • Dog Star


  • The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest


  • One Big Open Sky


  • Why Do Things Die?


  • The Wrong Way Home


  • The Lonely Mailman


  • How to Talk to Your Succulent


Teens: YA Stories About Multiracial and Multicultural People

January Staff Picks List

  • Two Tribes


  • This Train Is Being Held


  • Everything Within and In Between


  • Color Me In


  • It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood; Adapted for Young Readers


  • Before Takeoff


  • It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir


  • Harley in the Sky


  • Mexican White Boy


  • ¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico


  • Debating Darcy


  • Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices


  • What Lane?


  • The High Desert


  • Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery


  • The Weight of Blood


  • Azar on Fire


  • Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities


Adults: 2025 Almost Winners

January Staff Picks List

  • Asunder


  • The President's Lawyer


  • I Was A Teenage Slasher


  • Becoming Ghost


  • Good Girl


  • Obligations to the Wounded


  • Headshot


  • Flashlight


  • The Ministry of Time


  • Isola


  • Archangels of Funk


  • Colored Television


  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)


  • A Guardian and a Thief