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Welcome to Fairfield, What Are You Reading, a next-book podcast from Fairfield Public Library in Fairfield, CT. Each episode we gather a group of library staff together for a conversation about books and reading. Imagine you come to the library, ask a librarian for a next read, a couple more staff stop by, and soon everyone is talking their favorite new books. Fairfield, What Are You Reading has been honored by Million Podcasts' as Best 100 Library Podcasts. In 2025, we paused the podcast. Please enjoy our older episodes.

  1. 02/25/2025

    Episode 42 One Book One Town (OBOT) 2025: Beautyland

    Fairfield Public Library's podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org    Guest: Jennifer Laseman, Head of Teen Services and OBOT Co-chair Guest: Scott Jarzombek, Town Librarian Guest: John Kofron, Youth and Teen Library Services Manager, Pequot Library Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services and OBOT Co-chair Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great! This episode is all about our One Book One Town (OBOT) selection for 2025 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

    33 min

  2. 12/23/2024

    Episode 41: Our Favorite Books for 2024

    Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org Library Staff Favorite Books for 2024: Amy Peck, Head of Technical Services Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb We Solve Murders by Richard Osman Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian James by Percival Everett The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon Elaine Barrie, Adult Services Librarian Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki Emily Muller, Children's Librarian A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga Jan Fisher, Deputy Town Librarian The Backyard Bird by Amy Tan How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard Jennifer Laseman, Head of Teen Services When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson Jessica Stevens, Adult Services Librarian Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty Leslie Hagel, Adult Servies Librarian Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (selected twice!) Mary Coe, Branch Reference Librarian Table for Two by Amor Towles Long Island by Colm Toibin The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames Stefanie Bergstrom, Branch Children's Librarian This Book Will Make You An Artist by Ruth Millington and Ellen Surrey Spider in the Well by Jess Hannigan Susan Balla, Senior Circulation Coordinator A Murder Most French: American in Paris Mystery, Book 2 by Colleen Cambridge A Fashionably French Murder (An American in Paris Mystery Book 3) (coming in April) Tamara Lyhne, Head of Children's Services Tress of the Emerald Sea: A Cosmere Novel (Secret Projects Book 1) Book 1 by Brandon Sanderson and Howard Lyon The Curious Why (The Magical Yet, 2) Book 2 by Angela DiTerlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Gómez Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services After Oz by Gordon McAlpine Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick Scott Jarzombek, Town Librarian The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson    Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great!

    49 min

  3. 11/04/2024

    Episode 40: A Missing Hat, Doctor Fairytale, and Tangerine Troubles

    Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org    Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Tamara Lyhne, Head of Children's Services, Stefanie Bergstrom, Woods Branch Children's Librarian and Emily Muller, Children's Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Tamara: Detective Beans: and the Case of the Missing Hat Hardcover by Li Chen This Land: The History of the Land We Are On by Ashley Fairbanks Looking forward to: Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Flower Fairies by Megan McDonald Your Places Series by Jon Klassen Stefanie: The Fairy Tale Fan Club: Legendary Letters Collected by C.C. Cecily by Richard Ayoade ill. David Roberts Doctor Fairytale by Catherine Jacob, ill. Hoang Giang Presidential Elections and Other Cool Facts by Syl Sobel Looking forward to: Keeper of the Lost Cities – Unraveled by Shannon Messenger Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell Emily: Trouble at the Tangerine by Gillian McDunn The Happy Shop by Brittany Long Olsen Scare School Diaries: Welcome to Scare School by Jarrett Lerner Looking forward to: Scare School Diaries: Forest Frights by Jarrett Lerner Best Wishes: Like a Boss by Sarah Mlynowski and Hena Khan, ill. Jennifer Bricking The Bad Guys in One Last Thing by Aaron Blabey

    31 min

  4. 09/06/2024

    Episode 39: Music's Sound, Trapped in a Snowglobe, and Huck's Friend

    Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org    Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Mary Coe, Branch Reference Librarian, Jennifer Laseman, Head of Teen Services, and Elaine Barrie, Adult Services Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Mary: Maria by Michelle Moran The Days I Loved You Most by Amy Neff In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan The Stolen Child by Ann Hood   also mentioned: The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand The Life Impossible by Matt Haig A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty Jen: None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber Powerless by Lauren Roberts Snowglobe by Soyoung Park Elaine: James by Percival Everett How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin Long Island by Colm Toibin Philip (up and coming): Our Evenings by Alan Holinghurst Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune Rough Pages by Lev AC Rosen When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson The Last Dream by Pedro Almodovar

    38 min

  5. 07/22/2024

    Episode 38: Go Yankees, Eat Your Vegetables, and Summer Titles Literally

    Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org    Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Jan Fisher, Deputy Town Librarian, Jessica Stevens, Adult Services Branch Librarian, Leslie Hagel, Adult Services Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Jan: The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne The Yankee Way: the untold inside story of the Brian Cashman era by Andy Martino Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: a history by William Alexander  Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp Sandwich by Catherine Newman A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd Jessica: The Witches of Bellinas by J. Nicole Jones  Once Upon A Time by Elizabeth Beller  One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware  She’s not Sorry by Mary Kubica  Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Bébé day by day : 100 keys to French parenting by Pamela Druckerman Leslie: Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rindell The Midnight Feast by Lucy Roley The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (current audio) The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult The Sequel by Jean Hanff (talked about with Jess) Philip Karma: My Autobiography by Boy George After Oz by Gordon McAlpine Lark Ascending by Silas House

    40 min

  6. 05/23/2024

    Episode 37: D-Day Anniversary, Colum's Another Mother, and Art World Literary Fiction

    Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org    Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Susan Balla, Circulation Manager and Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Sue: THE GARDEN TOURIST: 120 DESTINATION GARDENS AND NURSERIES IN THE NORTHEAST  by Jana Milbocker D-DAY-THE UNHEARD TAPES by Geraint Jones NORMANDY '44: D-DAY AND THE EPIC 77-DAY BATTLE FOR FRANCE by James Holland THE STONE WITCH OF FLORENCE by Anna Rasche Due out in October AFTER OZ by Gordon McAlpine COMING AUGUST 6, 2024  BEAR by Julia Phillips COMING JUNE 25 2024  DISAPPEARING EARTH- also by Julia Phillips  THE WIDE WIDE SEA by Hampton Sides April 2024 Other titles: On Desperate Ground, In the Kingdom of Ice, Blood and Thunder, and Ghost Soldiers THE HUNTER'S DAUGHTER by Nicola Solvinic Out May 14, 2024 MURDER AT AN IRISH CHIPPER by Carlene O’Connor Out February 2024   #10 in Irish Village Mystery Series A MURDER MOST FRENCH by Colleen Cambridge   Out in April   An American in Paris #2 Led me to…  WINE AND WAR: WINE AND WAR: THE FRENCH, THE NAZIS, AND THE BATTLE FOR FRANCE'S GREATEST TREASURE Don Kladstrup INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE by Josh Malerman out June 25, 2024 bestselling author of Bird Box LOOKING FORWARD TO: THE GREY WOLF by Louise Penny         October 29 BLOOD LIKE MINE by Stuart Neville                August 6 author of The Ghosts of Belfast. Also writes as Haylen Beck. THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE : A NOVEL by MATT HAIG ON SALE DATE: SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA by TJ KLUNE SERIES: CERULEAN CHRONICLES (#2) SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 Claudia: American Mother by Colum McCann & Diane Foley Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton Guncle Abroad by Stephen Rowley Funny Story by Emily Henry Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear Philip: In Tongues by Thomas Grattan Wildful by Kengo Kurimato Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick

    36 min

  7. 04/23/2024

    Episode 36: Robot Dogs, Piano's Journey, and Animal Germs

    Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org    Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Tamara Lyhne, Head of Children's Services, Stefanie Bergstrom, Branch Children's Librarian, and Emily Muller, Children's Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Tamara Sick!: The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs by Heather L. Montgomery One Day This Tree Will Fall by Leslie Barnard Booth The Book That Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed and Hatem Aly Looking forward to: The Infinity Rainbow Club Series (3 in a series) by Jen Malia and Peter Francis Stefanie The Sixth Extinction (young readers adaptation): An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert The Bard and the Book by Ann Bausum and Marta Sevilla Piano Wants to Play by Colleen Kong-Savage Orris and Timble: The Beginning by Kate DiCamillo and Carmen Mok Looking forward to: The Curious Why (The Magical Yet, 2) by Angela DiTerlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Gómez Emily Dogtown by Gennifer Choldenko and Katherine Applegate Wildful by Kengo Kurimoto Rise of the Green Flame: A Branches Book (Kwame's Magic Quest #1) by Bernard Mensah and Natasha Nayo Looking forward to: Emily's Cupcake Magic! (1) (Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch) Book 1 of 2: Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch by Coco Simon and Manuela Lopez The One and Only Family by Katherine Applegate Karen's Sleepover: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #8) (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix) by Ann M. Martin and Katy Farina Summer Reading coming soon!

    31 min

  8. 02/23/2024

    Episode 35 One Book One Town (OBOT) 2024: Warrior Girl Unearthed

    Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org    Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services and OBOT Co-chair Guest: Jennifer Laseman, Head of Teen Services and OBOT Co-chair Guest: Leslie Hagel, Adult Services Librarian and OBOT Reading Committee Member Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great! This month is all about our One Book One Town (OBOT) selection for 2024: Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley.

    18 min
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Welcome to Fairfield, What Are You Reading, a next-book podcast from Fairfield Public Library in Fairfield, CT. Each episode we gather a group of library staff together for a conversation about books and reading. Imagine you come to the library, ask a librarian for a next read, a couple more staff stop by, and soon everyone is talking their favorite new books. Fairfield, What Are You Reading has been honored by Million Podcasts' as Best 100 Library Podcasts. In 2025, we paused the podcast. Please enjoy our older episodes.

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  • Creator
    Fairfield Public Library
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Fairfield Public Library
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