National Library Workers Day: Librarians in Fiction

In honor of National Library Workers Day I put together a short bibliography of fiction and mystery books that feature characters who are librarians:

The Librarian by Larry Beinhart
FICTION BEINHART
A political thriller featuring university librarian David Goldberg, who is cataloging the personal papers of a billionaire.
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The Dewey Decimal System of Love by Josephine Carr
FICTION CARR
A forty-year-old librarian falls in love with the conductor of the Philadelphia Philharmonic.
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Miss Zukas mysteries by Jo Dereske
MYSERY DERESKE
Librarian Helma Zukas sleuths in Washington state.

• Miss Zukas and the Library Murders
• Miss Zukas and the Island Murders
• Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death
• Miss Zukas and the Raven's Dance
• Out of Circulation
• Final Notice
• Miss Zukas in Death's Shadow
• Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence
• Bookmarked to Die
• Catalogue of Death
• Index to Murder

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs by Molly Harper
PB ROMANCE HARPER
Soon after a children's librarian is fired she becomes a vampire!
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Aurora "Roe" Teagarden mysteries by Charlaine Harris
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY HARRIS  or  MYSTERY HARRIS
"Roe" Teagarden is a crime buff and former librarian living in Georgia.

• Real Murders
• A Bone to Pick
• Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
• The Julius House
• Dead Over Heels
• A Fool and His Honey
• Last Scene Alive
• Poppy Done to Death

Jane Madison series by Mindy L. Klasky
FICTION KLASKY
A librarian discovers she is a witch.

• Girl's Guide to Witchcraft
• Sorcery and the Single Girl

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
FICTION NIFFENEGGER
A love story between Henry, a time traveling librarian who works at the Newberry Library, and Claire, an artist.
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The Rover series by Mel Odom
Sci fi/fantasy adventures of librarian Edgewick Lamplighter.

• The Rover  PB FANTASY ODOM
• Destruction of the Books  SCIENCE FICTION ODOM
• Lord of the Libraries  SCIENCE FICTION ODOM
• The Quest for the Trilogy: A Rover Novel of Three Adventures
  SCIENCE FICTION ODOM

La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture by Lily Prior
FICTION PRIOR
Rosa, a librarian in Palermo, Sicily, meets an English chef/writer and falls in love.
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American Wife by Curtis Sittenfield
FICTION SITTENFIELD
First lady (and elementary school librarian) Alice Blackwell (neé Lindgren) narrates this book.
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In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians
SHORT STORIES IN
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To find other books you can use the search terms librarians and fiction or do a subject search for librarians.