Books about Librarians

Bibliophilia: A novella and stories Michael Griffith

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.

The Book of Flying Keith Miller

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.

The Book of the Seven Delights Betina Krahn

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.

The Destruction of the Books Mel Odom

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.

The Dewey Decimal System of Love Josephine Carr

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

Eyes of the Calculor Sean McMullen

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.

The Giant's House: a romance Elizabeth McCracken

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.

Girl's Guide to Witchcraft Mindy Klasky

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.

Good Girls Do Cathie Linz

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.

The Grand Complication Allen Kurzweil

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.

Here Lies the Librarian Richard Peck

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.

The Ice Queen: A novel Alice Hoffman

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.

La Cucina: A novel of rapture Lily Prior

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.

The Librarian Larry Beinhart

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.

Lucy Crocker 2.0: A novel Caroline Preston

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."

Miss Zukas and the Library Murders Jo Dereske

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.

Monday Morning Faith Lori Copeland

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.

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart Lydia Millet

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.

Open Season Linda Howard

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.

Sleep Toward Heaven: A novel Amanda Eyre Ward

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.

Stones from the River Ursula Hegi

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.

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden mystery Charlaine Harris

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.

Through a Gold Eagle: A Glynis Tryon mystery Miriam Grace Monfredo

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.

The Time Traveler's Wife: A novel Audrey Niffenegger

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.

Tome of Death D. R. Meredith

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.