try these next! Most of the books on this list are the first in a series, so get comfy and start reading!

Graphic novels use a combination of text and images to tell a story - similar to a comic strip. Browse the list below for some of our favourite titles for kids.

Cheers to one of the greatest English detective novelists of all time. Read one of Christie's mystery novels and try to solve the case before you reach the last page!

Ever read a book told through letters or diary entries? Epistolary novels can make a book and its characters feel exceedingly intimate. Add one of these to your reading list!

Stories and information about the experiences of Chinese Immigrants in BC from 1850-1950. A special booklist in partnership of the Coquitlam Heritage Society's exhibition on the Chinese Exclusion Act of1923-1947 .

Learn about the history of the Riverview/Essondale hospital in PoCo, and Mental Health treatment in BC. Includes resources on the history of mental illness with a focus on first person accounts. In partnership with Coquitlam Heritage's exhibition titled Riverview: an artists point of view.

A selection of scary tales to get you in the Halloween mood!

Favourite fiction from the 1910s through the 1940s.

Mustachioed manuscripts for male mental and mortal mettle.