In honor of National Library Week, here is a booklist with something for everyone: romance, mystery, fantasy, existential drama; all featuring everyone's favorite protagonist, the librarian.

A collection of stories includes the novel-length title piece in which a post-menopausal university librarian is pressed into reluctant duty as a sex cop and patrols the aisles to prevent illicit student couplings.

When Pico falls in love with one of the winged people in the City by the Sea, the orphaned young librarian embarks on a quest to find the mythical Morning Town, a magical place where those like him who are wingless may gain their wings.

Librarian Abigail Merchant stumbles upon the journals of an eccentric scholar, leading her on a quest to find the Great Library of Alexandria and recover a priceless artifact with the help of an ex-legionnaire with a checkered past.

Master librarian Edgewick Lamplighter sends his bored halfling apprentice, Jugh, to retrieve an enchanted rare book that sets fire to the Great Library Vault's priceless collection.

Forty-year-old librarian Alison Sheffield finds her proper, staid, and quiet life turned upside down when she falls head over heels in love.

Two thousand years into the future, Earth is threatened by the destruction of all civilization, and the Dragon Librarians of Australica race against time to kidnap every numerate individual on the continent in order to rebuild the Calculor, a human-powered computer that could hold the key to preserving life.

Befriending an adolescent boy who is ostracized for his unusual height, bereft Cape Cod librarian Peggy Cort finds a soul mate in James and comes to love him as he grows into a man of eight feet.

When lonely librarian Jane Madison stumbles upon a hidden chamber containing a vast array of ancient books on witchcraft, she discovers a spell that makes her irresistible to men and wreaks magical havoc on her life.

After his father's death, Luke Maguire returns home to Serenity Falls to take care of the family bar and, while trying to liven the town up a little, forms an unlikely alliance with Julia Wright, a sassy librarian who can read him like an open book.

Confronted by both professional and personal crises, reference librarian Alexander Short gains a new lease on life when he meets Henry James Jesson III, who hires him for some research into an enigmatic eighteenth-century inventor.

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.

After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.

In a novel set in modern Sicily, a librarian who has suffered heartbreak is drawn to a charismatic English chef through their shared love of cooking.

University librarian David Goldberg begins a side job as a conservative activist, a position that lands him in hot water with a conspiratorial clique of wealthy right-wingers who want him gone.

When her family's software company is suddenly threatened by bankruptcy, Lucy Crocker, a former children's librarian and computer-clueless mom, comes up with the idea for an action-packed computer game called "Maiden's Quest."

With the help of her not-so-proper best friend, Ruth, a six-foot-tall bohemian artist, Helma Zukas investigates the appearance of a dead body right in the middle of the library's fiction stacks.

Following Sam, a missionary and her soul mate, to the New Guinea jungle, librarian Johanna Holland soon discovers that this is not God's plan for her life, forcing her to make a difficult decision.

When a shy librarian in Santa Fe sees Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, she risks her career and relationships to follow them, building a cult following comprised of hippies, bikers, anthropologists, and survivors of the atom bomb to mount a massive march on Washington.

A spinster librarian transforms herself into a party girl and declares open season on manhunting. But late one night she sees something she's not supposed to see and finds herself the target of a killer.

The lives of three women--a twenty-nine year-old death row inmate, a young New York physician, and a recently widowed librarian--converge in a small Texas town.

Trudi, a dwarf librarian, tells about the lives of people in the small German town of Burgdorf from World War I and into the 1950s.

Delighted by a recent inheritance, librarian Aurora Teagarden turns her hand to real estate, but her new profession is threatened when she stumbles upon a corpse while showing her first house.

Glynis Tryon, a Seneca Falls librarian in the 19th century, becomes involved with a murder investigation while reading of Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd, and John Brown's abolitionist ideas.

Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts librarian Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

While hiking in Palo Duro Canyon, reference librarian Megan Clark and her fellow members of the Murder by the Yard book club discover a human skeleton that is linked to a centuries-old unsolved murder.