Everything Book Club, "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean

A New York Times bestseller. Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter Susan Orlean explores an true unsolved mystery while telling the broader story of libraries and librarians.

“A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” —The Washington Post

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of eight books, including "Joyride," "Rin Tin Tin," and "The Orchid Thief," which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York.