La Quinta Public Library

  If you need some screen-free time, check out one of these books that you can easily finish in a day or maybe even a couple of hours! Click on the book titles to learn more about the books, or to place them on hold. If you need help requesting a book or two, give us a call at 760-564-4767 or stop by and check them out.   Happy Reading!  Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories - Kathleen Collins All Grown Up - Jami Attenberg Binti - Nnedi Okorafor Signs Preceding the End of the World - Yuri Herrera The Cook - Maylis de Kerangal The Parade - Dave Eggers The Strange Bird - Jeff VanderMeer The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-Min Lee McGlue - Ottessa Moshfegh Houseboy - Ferdinand Oyono

     It’s November aka National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). If you’re not familiar with NaNoWriMo it is a yearly competition to write 50,000 words in a month. That’s 1,667 words a day. To learn more about NaNoWriMo, or to join in on the fun, you can go to their website https://nanowrimo.org .      This book list contains novels written during NaNoWriMo to inspire you to reach the 50,000 word goal, books on craft to help you during the revision process, and two Writer’s Market books to help you get your book into the world. Even if you’re not participating in NaNoWriMo, but you like to write, you should check out these books. Click on the titles to learn more or to place a hold on the book(s).      Happy writing!  Novels The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern  Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell  Cinder by Marissa Meyer You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins Books on Craft On Writing by Stephen King  Reading like a Writer by Francine Prose The Elements of Style by William Strun