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In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, the Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) Bookmobile will be closed. The Downtown Library will be open for special hours from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Patrons can visit icpl.org/hours to find Library hours and the ICPL Bookmobile schedule. 

With the deluge of great new titles published over the last year, some potential new favorites may have escaped your notice. So Iowa City Public Library Staff members voted on the best books that came out in 2022 and whittled down to a collection of can’t-miss books for the year across nine categories. There’s sure to be a book on ICPL’s Best of the Best 2022 list that will set you on the path to a reading adventure in the new year. Browse the list of winning titles below.

The Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation will host a Book Sale from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on July 15, and Saturday, July 16.  Look for the tables under a tent which will be set up on the Library’s sidewalk (the Ped Mall) during the Iowa City Downtown District's annual Summer Sidewalk Sales.  If the weather is bad, the sale will move indoors to the Library lobby. All items will be priced as ‘pay-what-you-want’ on everything from fiction and cookbooks, to nonfiction, DVDs, art books, young adult and children’s books