We’re doing a bit of match-making this season at The New York Public Library!

It can be daunting trying to figure out what to read next or which book your favorite people want for the holidays—and that’s where we come in.

Our Readers Services librarians will staff our shiny new “The Librarian Is In” booth during select hours every week until December 23 in the Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (the one on 42nd Street, with the lions out front!). Visitors can step right up to the booth and ask for book recommendations.

Want to visit us? We’ll be there until December 23, from 10–11 AM and 2–3 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays, plus 2–3 PM on Fridays.

But if you can’t make it in person, don’t worry! You can get our recommendations a bunch of other ways online:

• Twitter office hours: Every Friday from 10–11 AM, we give book recommendations live on Twitter via the @NYPLRecommends handle and the hashtag #TheLibrarianIsIn.

• The “What Should I Read Next” form: Readers can fill out our online form at any time, and we’ll email you a few personalized recommendations in about three business days.

• Staff Picks browse tool: Every few months, our team and other NYPL staff members pick out 100 of our favorite books for children, young adults, and adults. We feature them in an interactive web tool that allows readers to sort them and pick books they’re in the mood for.

• Book lists: Every week, a team of NYPL’s book experts creates lists based on timely questions.

You can also check out our 2015 recommendations in not-so-traditional categories:

Adult Fiction & Nonfiction

• Best Book about Alan Turing, Pilgrims, and Realistic Robot Dolls: Speak by Louisa Hall

• Best Book about the Worst Thing Ever: One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad

• Best Novel about a Box of Email: Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont

• Best Cover If You're in the Mood for Something Horribly Painful: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Best Deeply Creepy Short Stories: Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser

• Best Book about Everything in the World Because It Is So Amazing and Seriously Just Stop Reading This and Go Get a Copy Right Now: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Young Adult

• Best Book Featuring Possessed Deer: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

• Best Graphic Novel Featuring Possessed Deer: Lumberjanes, Vol. 1 by Noelle Stevenson

• Best Book Involving Drag Queens Singing Dolly Parton: Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

• Best Book to Inspire You to Carry Purell in Your Bag Actually Go Wash Your Hands: Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Kids

• Best Picture Book about an Amphibian Using Landscaping Equipment: McToad Mows Tiny Island: A Transportation Tale by Tom Angleberger

• Best Book on Ben Franklin Infuriating Magicians in the 1700s: Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France by Mara Rockliff

• Best Book about Absolutely Nothing but Involving Cute Animals: Waiting by Kevin Henkes

• Best Middle-Grade Book about a Transgender Kid Who Is Really Great: George by Alex Gino

We hope to see you soon at the “The Librarian Is In” booth—and online!