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Patten Free Library > Staff Picks > Staff Picks: What We’re Reading: Spring 26 | Posted by: Hannah Lackoff on April 16, 2026

Staff Picks: What We’re Reading: Spring 26

See what PFL staff are reading as we move into Spring! Historical fiction, nature observations, many audiobooks, and a lot of us were reading Lauren Groff!  Place a hold on any title below by clicking the link.
 
 
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
 
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback
 
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmurst (audiobook)
 
 
The Lost Ancestor by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
 
Brawler by Lauren Groff
 
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
 
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
 
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (audiobook)
 
Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved my Life and Changed the World by Daniel Kraus
 
Circe by Madeline Miller (audiobook)
 
We the Women, the Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America by Norah O’Donnell
 
Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky
 
The Astral Library by Kate Quinn
 
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
 
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
 
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (PFL Book Group April selection!)
 
Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
 
Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls
 
Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals by novelist Joy Williams
 
How to Read a Book by Monica Wood
 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf (PFL Book Group April selection!)
 
The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by MZ

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