Searching For a Good Book? We Asked the Experts

In honor of National Read Across America Day, which was Wednesday and also doubles as the great Dr. Seuss' birthday, we tweaked our usual search for Patch Picks.

This week, we wanted to know, what are some of the best books out there? So, we asked the librarians of the for their favorites. So, without further adieu, here they are.

Patch Picks—The top reads of the librarians of the Library of the Chathams.

Laura Weinbrom, children's librarian

• "Monsters Eat Whiny Children" by Bruce Eric Kaplan
• "Riding Along with Aunt Lucy"
• "Henry's Freedom Box" by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
• "Dancing Through the Snow" by Jean Little

Jay Chatterjee

• "Death in Holy Orders" by P.D. James

Mary Kennedy

• "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
  "A philosophical story about a man who commits a murder and his non-feeling, not being emotional, about it."

Polly Bonasera

• "Always Looking Up" by Michael J. Fox

Sarah Skakum

• "The Boys of the Dark" Robin Gaby Fisher

Janet Skakum

• "London"
  "A sweeping saga of the history of London, although it is fiction, but it covers 2,000 years of history following six families."

Robert Schriek

• "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortensen
  "A work of nonfiction but it reads like a novel."

Deborah Fitzgerald

• "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Elaine Galvin

• "Open" by Andre Agassi
  "It's about the problems of fame, the good and the bad, and how it effects the lives of the people around you."