Welcome to our mystery unboxing feature with Westfield librarians, with a new episode released on IGTV every month! In this episode, librarian Christian asked his colleagues for recommendations for adult speculative fiction that could be surreal and/or humorous! All of these books are available at the Westfield Athenaeum if you’re interested in them! For the list, with direct links to the catalog, check below the video!
No Thank You
- The Night Library of Sternendach by Jessica Levai
- Poe: Stories and Poems, adapted by Gareth Hinds
- The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Maybe Next Time
- The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
- The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Tower of Yes
- All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
- The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove
- Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
- Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
- Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne
- The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
- Planetfall by Emma Newman
- Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
- The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Smashed by Junji Ito
- The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer