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November 07, 2022

100+ Books Loved by Mercantile Readers

If you’ve visited the Library in the last couple of years, you might have noticed that one of the windows looking into the lobby was...

June 02, 2022

Summer Reading Recommendations from Library Members

We recently asked our Bookless Book Club for their best summer reading recommendations. They offered up the usual beach reads, but also touched on big...

March 08, 2022

Women's History Month recs and more from the March First Friday Book Chat

The First Friday Book Chat is our book club without a book. Every month, members gather to talk about what they’re reading lately, what they’d...

January 21, 2022

Mercantile Members' Must-Read Authors

Occasionally, we include a One-Question Survey in our weekly newsletter. (The newsletter goes out every Sunday, and is chock full of information about upcoming events....

January 11, 2022

Book recommendations from The First Friday Book Chat

The inaugural First Friday Book Chat was a rousing success, in that everyone who attended — including our Librarians — came away with a long...

December 13, 2021

Our Favorite Reads of 2021

You should have heard the grumbling when we asked our staff to pick their three favorite reads from 2021. If we’d had a dollar for...

December 18, 2020

Our favorite reads of 2020

Whatever else it was, 2020 was a great year for reading at the Mercantile. Circulation is up, and readers have found gems in the stacks...

December 19, 2019

Books of the decade

As 2019 winds down, inspired by the collection of “best of the decade” book lists at LitHub, and so many other of our favorite reading...