Summer break + Okanagan sunshine + beach days call for a good book!
Our library staff have put together a list of popular reads from our collection for you to enjoy before the busy school year starts again. Explore this display on the library’s main floor until August 1 or find the books listed below to check out at your conveniece. Click on the book title link to find out how you can borrow it.
Did you know that the Okanagan Regional Library has a branch in the UBCO Library? Get your favourite books delivered right to campus all year round. Learn about ORL at UBCO Library!
Call me by your name by André Aciman
The writing retreat : a novel by Julia Bartz
A history of my brief body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The vanishing half by Brit Bennett
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The double life of Benson Yu : a novel by Kevin Chong
The alchemist by Paulo Coelho ; translated by Alan R. Clarke
The ballad of songbirds and snakes by Suzanne Collins
Girl, woman, other by Bernardine Evaristo
Five little Indians by Michelle Good
The fault in our stars by John Green
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
All the quiet places by Brian Thomas Isaac
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The vegetarian : a novel by Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
Babel, or, The necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford translators’ revolution by R.F. Kuang
We are okay : a novel by by Nina LaCour
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The sleeping car porter by Suzette Mayr
Circe : a novel by Madeline Miller
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Homesick for another world by Ottessa Moshfegh
Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel
The sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Commonwealth : a novel by Ann Patchett
The overstory : a novel by Richard Powers
The barren grounds by David A. Robertson ; illustration, Natasha Donovan
Monkey beach by Eden Robinson
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Lincoln in the bardo : a novel by George Saunders
White teeth by Zadie Smith
The goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The hate u give by Angie Thomas
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Fight night by Miriam Toews
A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Indian Horse : a novel by Richard Wagamese
The Nickel boys : a novel by Colson Whitehead
The underground railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead
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