Berryville Book Buzz

Maggie O’Farrell’s Land

Maggie O’Farrell has been having quite a moment as a writer in 2026. Earlier this year, she was Oscar-nominated for cowriting the screenplay for Hamnet, based on her own 2020 novel, and now, she had a new bestseller with Land this summer.

O’Farrell has been writing literary fiction for years now, with an increasing focus on historical figures. In her two previous novels, she concentrated on relatively famous figures–William Shakespeare and his wife for Hamnet and Lucrezia de’ Medici for The Marriage Portrait. For her latest, she picks an equally real but more obscure historical person to center the novel on, her own great-great-grandfather.

Berryville Library Grand Opening!

We had so much fun at our grand opening last Friday! Thank you so much to everyone who turned out for the ribbon cutting and the open house!

Free to Be: August

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It’s an important historical birthday for the United States, and we will be celebrating it all year-round with our new Free to Be series. With respect to Marlo Thomas, our Free to Be posts will be celebrating unique freedoms we enjoy as Americans. And this month, as we plan to open our new facility, we’re looking at how we’re free to play.

You’re Invited to Our Grand Opening!

We hope to see you at the Grand Opening of the new Berryville Library on Friday, August 7!

We will be doing the ribbon cutting at 10 am and then hosting the Grand Opening until 2 pm.

Behind the Scenes of the Move!

We have had a lot of people in the weeks leading up to the move ask exactly how you move a library. Well, the answer is very methodically.

Exploring Genres: Historical Fiction

Stuck in a reading rut? Want to expand your reading horizons in 2026? You’re in luck! Every month this year, we will be delving deep into popular genres at the library. If you’re already a fan, find readalike suggestions for popular authors and ideas for similar genres to explore. If you’re brand new to the genre in question, you will find a helpful explanation of the hallmarks of the genre, a breakdown of its most common subgenres, and explanations of what readers find so appealing about the most popular authors writing those types of books. Let’s explore historical fiction for July as we’re making history moving to our new library!

Letter from Penelope, the Library Goose

Dear gentle readers,

This is Penelope, the library goose, checking in. When the staff sent me around the world a few years ago, I signed off from my journeys with the hope that, in a few years, we would be moving into a new library that will better accommodate my quarters and wardrobe.

Well, that time has come. Today is the last day we are open at 104 Spring Street. The next time you’ll see me in the, well, feathers, we will be at our new location on 207 S. Springfield.

Library Grand Opening Date Set!

We are very pleased and excited to be able to announce that the new library will be opening Friday, August 7! We will be hosting a grand opening celebration that day from 10 am to 2 pm–more on that soon–and can’t wait to welcome you into our beautiful new home!

In the meantime, we are open at our current location through this Wednesday, July 15. Read more for an FAQ on what to expect during the move.

Berryville Library Closing July 15 for Move to New Building

We are very excited to announce that we will be closing the current location of the library next week, Wednesday, July 15, so we can move to our new location on South Springfield Street!!!!!

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