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Books-to-Screen

• Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman (eBook and eAudiobook)
• Dare Me by Megan Abbott (eAudiobook) 
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (eBook and eAudiobook)
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (eBook and eAudiobook) 
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (eBook and eAudiobook)
• Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman (eBook and eAudiobook)

New! eComics (now available through RB Digital) 

• Bingo Love 
• Black Hammer 
• Locke & Key (Volume 1 through 4) 
• The Complete Angel Catbird 
• The Witcher 

Fantasy/SciFi eBooks

• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (eAudiobook) 
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (eAudiobook)
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jeminson 
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (eAudiobook) 
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (eAudiobook)
• Star Wars: Black Spire by Deliah S. Dawson (eAudio)
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern (eBook and eAudio)

Fiction

• The Chain by Adrian McKinty
• Conviction by Denise Mina (eAudiobook) 
• Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (eAudiobook and eBook) 
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (eAuidoboook and eBook) 
• The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips Euan Morton (eAudiobook) 
• Lady Clementine by Marie Bendict (eBook)
• The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo (eAudiobook) 
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodsen (eAudiobook) 
• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (eAudiobook and eBook) 
• Such a Fun Age By Kiley Reid (eBook)

Mystery 

• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (eBook)
• Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
• Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
• The Missing American by Kwei Quartey (eBook) 
• The Silent Patient (Past book club pick and available in eBook/eAudiobook) 

Nonfiction 

• Across that Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by John Lewis (eBook)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (eBook/eAudiobook/print) 
• A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Barry (print/eBook) 
• Chokehold by Paul Butler  (eBook)
• Decluttering for Dummies (eBook)
• Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movements from 1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson (print)
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi (eAudiobook/print) 
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (print/eAudiobook)
• The Plaza by Julie Satow (eBook)
• The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger (eBook) 
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (eBook/eAudiobook) 
• The Unexpected Spy by Tracy Walder (eBook)
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle (eBook/eAudiobook)
• Wag the Science of Making Your Dog Happy by Zazie Todd (eBook)
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (eBook, print, BookCD) 
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (eBook/eAudiobook)
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting in the Cafeteria Together?: and other conversations about race by Beverly Daniel Tatum (print) 
• Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King (eBook) 

Romance 

• Aeysha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (eBook) 
• The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (eBook)
• Duke by Default  by Alyssa Cole (eAudio) 
• The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite (eBook)
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (eAudio/eBook) 
• A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole (eBook)
• Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole (eAudio) 
• The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (eBook/eAudiobook/print) 
• Rebel by Beverly Jenkins (eAudiobook)
• The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai (eAudiobook)
• Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner (eBook) 
• Well Met by Jen DeLuca (eAudiobook)

Young Adult Books for Adults 

• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (print and eBook)
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (eBook and eAudiobook) 
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (eAudiobook) 
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (eBook and eAudiobook) 
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (eAudiobook) 
• On the Come Up (eAudiobook)
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (eBook and eAudiobook) 
• Stamped by Jason Reynolds (eAudiobook) 

Recommendations from enki 

• Angel & Faith (graphic novel) (eBook) 
• Cookies for Dummies  (eBook)
• Motorcycling for Dummies (eBook)
• Pride Must Be a Place (eBook) 

Oprah's Book Club Picks Available at Carlsbad City Library

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (eBook and eAudiobook) 
• Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (eBook and eAudiobook)
• Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle (eBook and eAudiobook)
• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (eBook and eAudiobook)
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (eBook and eAudiobook)