The building is closed. Curbside Pickup of your holds is available during regular Library hours.
Winter Library Club for TEENS
Log books and complete activities for Winter Library Club — every 30 points equals an entry into our drawing for Batavia Bucks certificates.
Select from great reading lists in our 100 Books Before College challenge.
And earn volunteer hours by writing book reviews for social media in our Volunteen Review challenge.
Community Check-in with Misty & Aimee
Every Tuesday at 6:30pm, Misty and Aimee go LIVE on Instagram and Facebook. Follow them and make sure to turn on notifications! www.instagram.com/bplbatavia/
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers: Make Valentine’s Day cards
Tues., Feb. 2, 7 pm.
Make cheerful Valentine’s Day cards for local seniors in this tutorial. Register here and pick up your materials kit at the Library. For other volunteering opportunities, visit bataviapubliclibrary.org/volunteering/.
Geneva Park District
Affordable Party Tent Rental
Atlas Chicken Shack
Batavia Container
Charlestowne 18
Culvers-North Aurora
Eagle Flexible Packaging
El Taco Grande
Fermi Labs Natural Areas
Forest Preserve District of Kane County
Fox Valley Special Recreation Association
Goldfish Swim School
Heinz Bros. Greenhouse
i9 Sports
JC Penney-North Aurora
Kane County Cougars
Kimmer’s Ice Cream
Northern Illinois Food Bank
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
Pheasant Run
Prairie Path Cycles Batavia
Raging Waves Water Park
SciTech Hands On Museum
St. Charles History Museum
St. Charles Park District
Batavia Park District
Red Oak Nature Center
Fiction books
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Reference Database Information
Batavia Public Library subscribes to a variety of reference databases, which are useful for doing research.
Library Databases
ACT / SAT Practice Test Information
Get a feel for what testing day will be like by taking a free practice SAT test, courtesy of Princeton Review. Bring water, #2 pencils, and an energy snack, as well as an SAT-approved calculator. Scores will be available online within a week of taking the test. Registration is required.
Check our calendar for the next test.
Batavia High School Required Reading Choices
| Book Title | Author |
| A List of Cages | Robin Roe |
| Illegal | Eoin Colfer |
| Positive | Paige Rawl |
| Lockdown | Alexander Gordon Smith |
| Book Title | Author |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Girl in Translation | Jean Kwok |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| Book Title | Author |
| A Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds |
| Scythe | Neal Shusterman |
| Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys |
| Laughing at My Nightmare | Shane Burcaw |
Book Title | Author |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
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Chasing Lincoln’s Killer | James L. Swanson |
Mr. Lincoln’s High Tech War | Thomas B. Allen |
Photo By Brady | Jennifer Armstrong |
| Book Title | Author |
| American Sniper | Kyle McEwen |
| The Forbidden Schoolhouse | Suzanne Jumaine |
| The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History | John M. Barry |
| The Pursuit of Happyness | Chris Gardner |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
| Midnight in Cherynobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster | Adam Higginbotham |
| Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| The Demon in the Freezer | Richard Preston |
| Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer |
| No Time to Lose | Peter Piot |
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger |
| 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz | Heather Dune Macadam |
| Stiff | Mary Roach |
| Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever | Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard |
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Moneyball | Michael Lewis |
| Branded | Alissa Quart |
| The Innovators | Walter Isaacson |
| 1421 | Gavin Menzies |
| Argo | Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio |
| Behind Rebel Lines | Seymour Reit |
| A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II | Sonia Purnell |
| City of Scoundrels | Gary Krist |
| Devil in the White City | Erik Larson |
| Eight Men Out | Eliot Asinof |
| Flags of our Fathers | James Bradley and Ron Powers |
| Parkland: Birth of a Movement | Dave Cullen |
| The Beauty Myth | Naomi Wolf |
| The Cheating Culture | David Calhoun |
| Columbine | Dave Cullen |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Life, Animated | Ron Suskind |
| The Paradox of Choice | Barry Schwartz |
| When March Went Mad | Seth Davis |
| Bad Or, The Dumbing Down of America | Paul Fussell |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama |
| Educated : A Memoir | Tara Westover |
| Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage | Dan Crenshaw |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |
Book Title | Author |
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation | Jonathan Hennessey |
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor | Thomas Foster |
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The Underground Railroad | Colin Whitehead |
The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan |
Sing Unburied Sing | Jesmyn Ward |