Book Lists and Reviews – The UncommonWealth

The Stacks

Season’s Readings!

The Vaster Wilds Lauren Groff A harrowing and thrilling tale of a young servant girl who escapes the hardships, disease, and social caste system of…

Jessi BennettDecember 17, 2025

Public Libraries Virginia Authors

Virginia Library Staff Best Reads of 2023

It can be a challenge to find new books, and so we often look to friends, colleagues, bestseller lists, and other sources for ideas when…

Barry TrottJanuary 31, 2024

Education & Programming

A Book List on Racism and Resistance in Virginia History

Evidence of the past appears in many forms. We find history in manuscript records, old newspapers, artifacts in a plowed field. But history is also…

Rebecca SchneiderJune 29, 2020

The Stacks

You’ve Got the Slippers and Cocoa – Still Need a Book?

Still looking for some good reads to gift this holiday season? Here are some of the favorite books we've read this year. Fiction "This novel…

Jessi BennettDecember 23, 2019

The Value of a Man: The Muse Brothers of Franklin County

People looked at the Muse Brothers, Georgie and Willie, and saw something different. Some saw objects of pity. Some saw objects of ridicule. Some saw…

Vince BrooksNovember 23, 2016