In addition to joining this month’s Science and Sonnets Reading Challenge, we encourage you to celebrate National Poetry Month by browsing our shelves for poetry collections and novels in verse. Read on to learn more!

Spring is here and we are embracing the season of growth and renewal by exploring the world around us. It is also when we celebrate Community Science Month and Earth Day (April 22), both of which remind us to reflect on the fun and creative ways we can reduce, reuse, recycle, and support our local environments. We can have positive impacts on our communities when we make small changes, for example, thinking about how we use and dispose of the things we buy, how we conserve water, and what we pour down our drains. To learn more about some of the challenges our Earth faces and how you can help make a difference, read on for recommended books, programs, and local initiatives.

We’re gearing up and getting excited for this weekend's Familia Fiesta celebration and other Hispanic Heritage Month events, but the celebration doesn’t end there. You can continue to explore Hispanic voices, history, and culture beyond this month through titles available in our collection. The library also offers regular programs and resources throughout the year to support the Spanish-speaking community and those interested in learning Spanish. Read on to learn more!

We are just a few days away from hosting our sixteenth All Henrico Reads event! This year we are thrilled to host bestselling author Ruth Reichl and hear about her life, work, and recent release, The Paris Novel. We hope you will join us on Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 7p.m. at the Henrico Sports & Events Center. Whether this is your first All Henrico Reads or your sixteenth, it never hurts to plan ahead. Read on for our top five tips for attending this year’s event.

What do you do when Community Science and Poetry are celebrated during the same month? You put together a reading challenge that honors them both! Starting April 1, we invite you to sign up for our Science & Sonnets Reading Challenge. Read on to learn more!

Weird Girl Fiction is a loose genre that has become more popular in the last few years. Calling it a genre at all is a kind of misnomer, instead, weird girl fiction is more of a catch-all phrase for a book that refuses to be neatly categorized. These books blend multiple genres but typically feature a female-identified main character who acts…unexpectedly. While these books often lean into messy, strange narratives, what unifies this kind of fiction is the way the main character meets their world. The “Weird Girls” of weird girl fiction are unabashedly, wholly, and sometimes unhinged(ly) themselves. So why not add a little “weird girl fiction” to your TBR (to-be-read) pile this Women’s History Month? Read on for some atypical leading ladies from our collection.

This Women’s History Month, in conjunction with our nation’s 250th celebration, we are proud to shine the spotlight on the lives and contributions of colonial/Revolutionary-era women. From Pocahontas and Sybil Ludington, to Phillis Wheatley and Nancy Ward, learn more about known and lesser-known female trailblazers highlighted in our collection.  

In this year’s All Henrico Reads title, Gray Dawn, author Walter Mosley transports readers back to 1970s Los Angeles. Historically, we enter a world on the heels of the Civil Rights movement, an era defined by newfound freedoms, cultural pride, and the fight against enduring racism. We also see the rise of Second Wave feminism, more women entering the work force, and a nation still at war. Culturally, Los Angeles had become the music and film capital of the world, attracting big-name actors, musicians, and dreamers alike.

With a setting so rich in history and culture, while reading Gray Dawn we found ourselves wishing for an accompanying soundtrack. What would protagonist Detective Easy Rawlins listen to while driving through Los Angeles, trying to crack the case?

March is Women’s History Month! In addition to our All Henrico Reads title, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford, to celebrate, we’re browsing hundreds of inspiring narratives about women, including Virginia’s own female trailblazers, in our extensive collection of biographies, nonfiction, and databases. Read on to learn more!