Every month brings a new opportunity to expand your reading horizons, and we’re here to help! Check out our curated lists, tailored to provide book recommendations for all ages on a variety of topics. We work hard to keep these lists up-to-date, but if you notice a missing title or an outdated entry, let us know at tech@wilmlibrary.org.
Our Highlighted Recommendations
Juneteenth
Rainbow Reads
Plant a Seed, Read
All Our Recommendations
AAPI Month
Back to School
Banned Books
Beach Reads
Behind the Books: Sy Montgomery
Birds
Black History Month
Debuts
Deaf History Month
Disability Pride Month
Earth Day
French Conversation Group
Graduation Reads
Halloween
Hispanic Heritage Month
Holiday Cooking and Crafting
Italian American Month
Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday
Level Up at Your Library
Library Card Signup Month
Juneteenth
Menopause
Mental Health Awareness Month
New Year New You
National Native American Heritage Month
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
Plant a Seed, Read
Poetry Month
Rainbow Reads
Reading Rivals
Sports Romance
Sports Journalism
’Tis the Season to be Reading
Valentine’s Day
Women’s History Month
Mass Center for the Book Challenges
Every year the WML staff curates a list of books to answer each of the monthly challenges.
2026
January - A Book About or Set in Winter
February - A Book Outside Your Usual Genre
March - A Book Featuring an Unlikely Friendship
April - A Short Story or Essay Collection
May - A Book Set in Massachusetts
June - A Book with a Sympathetic Villain
2025
January - A Book Published the Year You Were Born
February - A Book With the Name of a City in the Title
March - A Book About Someone with a Marginalized Identity
April - A Book About Books, Bookstores, or Libraries
May - A Book with a First Sentence of Eight Words or Less
June - A Book that Spans Multiple Generations
July - A Book You Were Drawn to by its Cover
August - A Book with a Protagonist who is a Teenager or Senior Citizen
September - A Book Told in Non-Chronological Order
October - A Book Published by a Massachusetts Press
November - A Cookbook or Book About Food
December - Another Book by an Author You’ve Already Read