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As we say "welcome in" to the new year, the Los Angeles Public Library would like to share our staff's favorite books of 2025; books that scored a 6-7 or higher!
These lists have it all! From silly read-alouds for your littles to Capital sagas for teens. Biographies and tell-alls, cults and controversy, fun with fiction—busybody readers, and crime scene cleaners, witchcraft and wild dark...
If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the author of the #1 bestselling
The John Muir Branch Library was built in 1930, based upon a design by architect Henry Francis Withey in the Italian Renaissance style, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Kelli Callis is a recovering riot grrrl and English teacher in the suburbs of L.A.
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What comes to mind when the phrase “Middle Ages” comes up? You probably think of stories of knights in armor jousting. Or sitting through a history class where someone tried to teach you about the feudal system. Or some horrific forms of medical treatment or criminal punishment.
Conner Habib hosts the podcast Against Everyone With Conner Habib, which covers topics like punk rock, philosophy, pornography, and occultism.
Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn is the first Anthology of "near-future" speculative fiction from Terraform, Vice's science-fiction vertical.
John Dishwasher is a writer and zine maker based in Southern California's San Jacinto Valley. His Zine from the Future Describing the End of Civilization was named a finalist for Best Political Zine of 2021 by Broken Pencil Magazine.
Alexis Hall writes books in the southeast of England, where he lives entirely on a diet of tea and Jaffa Cakes.