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.
Episode 42 One Book One Town (OBOT) 2025: Beautyland
Fairfield Public Library's podcast helps you find your next great read.
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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
23 Dec 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
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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!
4 Nov 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
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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
Inside a recent episode
Episode 34: Blueberry Mysteries, Protecting Our Animal Friends, and a Mother/Son Roadtrip
Published 30 Jan 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Some animals will not hesitate to cross over. There is a very timid and just aspects of studying the effects of roads. For one example, the effects of bald market for their feathers, that town municipalities that clean up roadkill or scientists trying to study it, they're taken before you can even count them. I had no idea. So it was fascinating. There was just so many different aspects of it and it's a very serious subject obviously but his writing is excellent and there's wordplay on it and it was just very good. So it's probably a book. I don't read books very often but it might be one that I actually reread because there's just so much to it and so many things you just don't think about in terms of that. […]
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