A book in a genre you don't usually read: 

Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry

True crime books and podcasts have seen a huge resurgence since the release of Serial in 2014. This 2016 book tells another side of the story told by the podcast, and may be especially interesting (and timely) due to the overturning of Adnan’s conviction last year.

A book in translation:

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story was written by Leonie Swann and translated by Anthea Bell (originally published in German)

On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George has cared for the sheep, reading them a plethora of books every night. The daily exposure to literature has made them far savvier about the workings of the human mind than your average sheep. Led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they set out to find George’s killer.

A book set in a place you want to visit: 

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Set in Prague, Czechoslovakia

Controlled by day, Tereza's jealousy awakens by night, transformed into ineffably sad death-dreams, while Tomas, a successful surgeon, alternates loving devotion to the dependent Tereza with the ardent pursuit of other women. Sabina, an independent, free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals -- of parents, husband, country, love itself -- whereas her lover, the intellectual Franz, loses all because of his earnest goodness and fidelity.

A book by a 2023 Lit Chat author: 

The Culture Wars of Warren Folks by Tim Gilmore

From the mid-1960s through the mid-'90s, Warren Folks often gained national media attention from his downtown Jacksonville barbershop for his constant conspiracy theory wars. He also associated himself with the likes of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, presidential candidate and Alabama Governor George Wallace. While this book is a work of historical biography and anti-racism that sometimes reads like a Charles Portis novel, it also tells important Black history like Ax Handle Saturday and the St. Augustine Movement.

Appearing live at the Main Library and on Zoom on November 4 at 3 p.m. Register for this Lit Chat here!

A book with a non-human protagonist: 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Because he spends so much time perfecting his flying form instead of concentrating on getting food, a seagull is ostracized by the rest of the flock.

A book by a Nobel Prize winner:

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Written by the winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature

Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who encounters a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream and the battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks.

A book under 300 pages:

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Area X has been but off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization and the lives of members of eleven expeditions. Now, the twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.