Livros que poderiam estar na biblioteca: como auxiliar as bibliotecas no incentivo à leitura através dos estudos literários

This paper discusses the potentiality of Literary Studies in assisting public libraries in formulating their policy of acquisition directed to support reading. Specifically, it names authors and works that add literary quality to subjects, composing a literary portrait of contemporary brazilian fiction. It examines narratives that faces the silences of memory and the weight they acquire in a globalized society.