Stock
All Waltham Forest libraries stock a range of adult, teenage and children's fiction and non-fiction titles, including large print titles and audiobooks on CD.
Stock Suggestions
We try really hard to make sure that we have the books that you like to read in your local library. However, if you can't find the book you are looking for on the shelves then please let us know by e-mailing libraries.support. We can't promise to buy it but we'll definitely have a look and if it fits with our stock policy and we think lots of other people would also like to read it then you might find it in a library near you in a matter of weeks.
Reservations
Books can be reserved from any library in Waltham Forest as well as our partner libraries in The Libraries Consortium. These can then be collected at your nearest library. Reservations can be placed online, by phone, or in a library. Please note that reservations may incur a fee.
Books in Community Languages
Some libraries hold adult fiction, and small amounts of non-fiction, in the community languages listed below:
Albanian – Leytonstone Library
Arabic - Leyton, Leytonstone, Walthamstow and Wood Street libraries
Bengali – Lea Bridge, Leyton, Leytonstone and Walthamstow libraries
Bulgarian - Walthamstow Library
Chinese (Mandarin) – Leyton, Walthamstow and Wood Street libraries
French - Leyton, Leytonstone, Walthamstow and Wood Street libraries
Gujurati – Lea Bridge, Leytonstone and Walthamstow libraries
Hindi – Lea Bridge and Walthamstow libraries
Hungarian - Leyton and Walthamstow libraries
Italian - Leyton and Leytonstone libraries
Lithuanian - Leytonstone and Walthamstow libraries
Persian (Farsi) – Walthamstow Library
Polish – Higham Hill, Lea Bridge, Leyton, Leytonstone, Walthamstow and Wood Street libraries
Portuguese - Leyton and Leytonstone libraries
Punjabi - Leyton and Walthamstow libraries
Pushto – Lea Bridge and Walthamstow libraries
Romanian - Lea Bridge, Leyton, Leytonstone, Walthamstow and Wood Street libraries
Russian - Leyton and Walthamstow libraries
Somali - Leyton Library
Spanish - Leyton, Leytonstone, Walthamstow and Wood Street libraries
Tamil - Lea Bridge, Walthamstow and Wood Street libraries
Turkish - Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow libraries
Ukrainian - Leytonstone and Walthamstow libraries
Urdu – Chingford, Higham Hill, Lea Bridge, Leyton, Leytonstone, Walthamstow and Wood Street libraries