We love working with every type of library—school, public, academic and special—and the librarians whose hard work brings resources, research, and the next big book right to their readers. Our roster includes dozens of speakers to engage your audiences, from literary stars to young adult and children’s favorites, story-breaking journalists, and more. We work with library staff throughout the entire process of picking the perfect speaker for their events – taking into account budget, schedule, and location. We also love to assist with the selection of titles for community, school, or city-wide Community Reads.
Below, we’ve picked a few speakers who are perfect for library audiences. For more ideas and suggestions, we invite you to peruse our online brochure.
Questions? Contact us for more information on the popular speakers below, or for special programming ideas for your library.
New Speaker
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, journalist, Oscar-nominated filmmaker, and student of Salish art and history. His powerful new book, We Survived the Night (October 2025), is a stunning blend of memoir, history, mythology and reportage as well as a deeply personal journey into NoiseCat’s own identity. An original and entertaining speaker, NoiseCat shares captivating stories about Indigenous life and history.
Highly Anticipated
Big news for Lauren Groff fans: Her latest work, the story collection Brawler, will be publishing in February 2026!
Lauren Groff is a celebrated author and speaker, known for her bestselling novels like Fates and Furies and The Vaster Wilds. Her works, often praised for their vivid prose and deep exploration of human emotions, make her an engaging speaker on writing and storytelling.
Current Library Favorites
Gary Shteyngart is the author of critically acclaimed novels including Super Sad True Love Story and his New York Times-bestselling memoir, Little Failure. His new novel Vera, or Faith tells the story of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart. Off the page, Shteyngart is a masterful storyteller who wins over audiences with his blistering humor and compassionate examinations of modern love and life.
A “publishing powerhouse” (TIME) Taylor Jenkins Reid is the New York Times-bestselling author and screenwriter of multiple addictively-readable books. She writes and speaks candidly about women’s issues, relationships, and her ambitious writing process. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program, Atmosphere, her newest novel and a GMA book club pick, is fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional.
Debbie Macomber is a leading voice in women’s fiction and perennial library favorite. There are more than 200 million copies of her books in print worldwide, fifteen of her novels have reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller lists, and six of her beloved Christmas novels have been made into hit movies on the Hallmark Channel. Her latest enchanting Christmas novel, A Ferry Merry Christmas, publishes in October 2025.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times-bestselling mainstay, Elizabeth Strout captivates audiences with her distinctively New England stories and powerful narrative ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Her most recent book and Oprah’s Book Club Pick Tell Me Everything is out in paperback in August 2025.
New Books in 2025
Leila Mottley is the author of the Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling. Her new book, The Girls Who Grew Big, is an astonishing novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle.
Jacob Tobia (they/them) is a gender nonconforming thought leader and bestselling author. Alarmed by a new generation of angry, broken young men, Tobia sets out to explore what’s going in their new book of personal and revolutionary essays, Before They Were Men.
Megha Majumdar is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning that was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her electrifying new novel A Guardian and a Thief is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other.
E. Lockhart is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of fiercely intelligent novels that explore issues of morality, feminism, and heroism. In her latest book We Fell Apart she returns to the world of her TikTok sensation We Were Liars with her signature beachy gothic atmosphere, family intrigue, and high-stakes romance.
2026 Sneak Peek
With her bestselling book Finding the Mother Tree, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard advanced a revelatory new paradigm for the profound intelligence and interconnectedness of trees. Now, with When the Forest Breathes (March 2026), she uncovers the ways that nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal can ensure the longevity of threatened ecosystems.
Lachi is a globally touring performer, charting recording artist, award-winning social entrepreneur, and host of PBS’ American Masters series, Renegades. In her book I Identify as Blind Lachi, who was born legally blind, weaves together storytelling, style, and straight talk to redefine Disability as a cultural movement, creative force, empowering identity, and a blueprint for innovation.