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Little Free Library Treasures

A reading-life post from Toni Rocchetti — the vacation tradition of hunting Little Free Libraries at the RI shore.

Little Free Library Treasures book cover

The LFLs I visited on vacation 📚

Every year we visit the RI shore, we spend an hour visiting the same Little Free Libraries in the area — and I always check whether any new ones have popped up since last summer. We love this tradition. It’s always so fun to see what treasures are waiting.

Here’s what I found this year:

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue
  • Bad Vibes Only
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  • Miller’s Valley
  • Deep Cuts
  • The Four Winds
  • The Future Saints

The only one I’ve actually read is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — but I grabbed it because I loved it and wanted my own copy on the shelf. The rest are the fun kind of gamble: books I might never have picked up, now sitting in my bag because a stranger’s little wooden box put them in my path.

That’s the magic of LFLs, honestly. They turn a walk into a treasure hunt and quietly widen your reading in a way an algorithm never quite does.

Do you visit Little Free Libraries when you travel? I love it — and I always keep a box of books in my trunk to leave something behind wherever I take something. 💛


Toni Rocchetti is a copy editor helping authors strengthen their narratives, deepen character arcs, and find the story that is already in the draft. She reads 80+ books a year across literary fiction, memoir, and nonfiction — and writes about what she is learning along the way. Work with Toni →