Staff Picks!

Here is a running list of books that our staff have read and enjoyed. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!  

Adult

• Beneath a scarlet sky / Mark Sullivan.
• Simon the fiddler / Paulette Jiles.
• This tender land / William Kent Krueger.
• A boy and his dog at the end of the world / C.A. Fletcher.
• Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life / David Giffels.
• Be Frank with me [large print] / Julia Claiborne Johnson.
• Washington Black / by Esi Edugyan.
• The sparrow / Mary Doria Russell.
• The river / Peter Heller.
• West / Carys Davies.
• The book woman of Troublesome Creek / Kim Michele Richardson.
• Outlander / Diana Gabaldon.
• The snow child / Eowyn Ivey.
• One shot : a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child.
• Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking / Susan Cain.
• Breath : the new science of a lost art / James Nestor.
• Invisible / Lorena McCourtney.
• Can you keep a secret? / Sophie Kinsella.
• Untamed / Glennon Doyle.

Young Adult

• March. Book one / written by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin ; [illustrated by] Nate Powell.
• Prettyboy must die / Kimberly Reid.
• The complete Maus / Art Spiegelman.
• Symphony for the city of the dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad / M.T. Anderson.
• Just listen / by Sarah Dessen.
• Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you / Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds.
• Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets / by J.K. Rowling ; illustrations by Mary Grandpre.
• Hatchet / Gary Paulsen.
• Hey, kiddo / by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
• Shout : a poetry memoir / by Laurie Halse Anderson.
• Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson.
• I'll give you the sun / by Jandy Nelson.
• Akata witch & Akata warrior / Nnedi Okorafor. 

 Children

• Anne of Green Gables / by L. M. Montgomery ; illustrated in color by Troy Howell.
• I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your class president / by Josh Lieb.
• The inquisitor's tale, or, The three magical children and their holy dog / Adam Gidwitz ; illuminated by Hatem Aly.
• Ghost / Jason Reynolds.
• The black stallion / by Walter Farley.
• Lost and found cat : the true story of Kunkush's incredible journey / Doug Kuntz and Amy Shrodes ; illustrated by Sue Cornelison.
• Holes / Louis Sachar.
• When stars are scattered / Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed ; color by Iman Geddy.
• Hilo : the boy who crashed to Earth / by Judd Winick ; with color by Guy Major.
• Breaking cat news : cats reporting on the news that matters to cats / Georgia Dunn.
• The year of the book / written by Andrea Cheng ; illustrated by Abigail Halpin.
• Matilda the moocher / story and pictures by Diana Cain Bluthenthal.
• The busy beaver / Nicholas Oldland.
• Snowmen at night / Caralyn Buehner ; pictures by Mark Buehner.
• Follow Carl! / Alexandra Day.
• The story of a castle / John S. Goodall.
• Let's make a garden / written and illustrated by Tamara Awad Lobe.
• We're going on a bear hunt / retold by Michael Rosen ; illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.
• Because a little bug went ka-choo! / by Rosetta Stone ; illustrated by Michael Frith.
• Stand back," said the elephant, "I'm going to sneeze!" / by Patricia Thomas ; illustrated by Wallace Tripp.
• The rainbow fish / Marcus Pfister ; translated by J. Alison James.
• Caps for sale : a tale of a peddler, some monkeys, and their monkey business / told and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina.
• The dot / Peter H. Reynolds.
• The snowy day / Ezra Jack Keats.
• The Cat in the Hat / by Dr. Seuss.
• A color of his own / Leo Lionni.
• Backyard fairies / by Phoebe Wahl.
• I'm in charge of celebrations
• Pelle's new suit / Elsa Beskow; translated by Marion Letcher Woodburn.
• Whistle for Willie.
• A chair for my mother / by Vera B. Williams.
• "More more more," said the baby [board book] : 3 love stories / Vera B. Williams.
• Goodnight, Gorilla / Peggy Rathmann.
• Circle of seasons / Gerda Muller ; [text adaptation by Lucia Monfried].

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