New Books | Waban Library Center

We have a lot of popular best sellers at the Waban Library Center – books that typically have long waiting lists at other libraries. We are also happy to take recommendations for books from our patrons. We also have a new collection of Playaways – all in one devices for you to listen to a favorite book. To request a book, please fill out the online form or call us during our open hours. We can not take book requests by email or by filling out the ask the librarian form.

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Daddy by Emma Cline
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
He Started It by Samantha Downing
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Evening of the Morning by Ken Follett
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Squeeze me by Carl Hiaasen
Fast Girls by Elise Hooper
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Luster by Raven Leilani
Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemie
The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Monogamy by Sue Miller
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
All The Devils are Here by Louise Penny
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Saint X by Alexis Schaiken
The Order by Daniel Silva
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
One by One by Ruth Ware

Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years by Scott Allan, et al
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
What Can I Do? by Jane Fonda
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America by Eddie Glaude, Jr
Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
Growing Up White by Debby Irving
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corp. Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
So You Want to Talk about Race by Iyeoma Oluo
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History by Richard Rothstein
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Board Books

Picture Books

Freedom Soup by Tami Charles
Hair Love by Matthew Cherry
Love From the Crayons by Drew & Oliver Deywalt & Jeffers
No More Naps by Chris Grabenstein
Southwest Sunrise by Nikki Grimes
The Oldest Student by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
Lift by Minh Li
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Maillard
The Camping Trip by Jennifer Mann
You Matter by Christian Robinson
Straw by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Chopsticks by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Small in the City by Sydney Smith
Vamos! Let's Go Eat by Raul The Third
Robobaby by David Wiesner

Easy Readers/Beginning Chapter

What About Worms? by Ryan Higgins
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure by Jeff Kinney
Baloney and Friends by Greg Pizzoll
An Elephant and Piggy Biggie Book Vol 2 by Mo Willems

Junior Fiction

The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
The Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer
The Little Prince by Antoine du Saint-Exupery
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
Wink by Rob Harrell
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janse Marks
Chirp by Kate Messner
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
The List of things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

Non-Fiction

Infinite Hope by Ashley Bryan
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candance Fleming
Stolen Justice by Lawrence Goldstone
We Are Power: How Non Violent Activism Can Change The World by Todd Husain-Lowery
A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism & You by Jason & Ibram Reynolds & Kendi
You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks by Evan Turk

Junior Graphic Novels

Cub by Cynthia Copeland
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
Displacement by Kiku Hughes
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson
Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luan Yang
White Bird by R.J. Palacio

Teens

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevado
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Parachutes by Kelly Yang