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Staff favorites from 2020

Use the filters below to explore more than 100 titles staff loved this year. Want even more recommendations? Check out our favorite books from 2017, 2018, 2019 or request a custom reading list or book bundle from our librarians.

“This rip-roaring graphic novel, like its source podcast, really hits its stride. Carey Pietsch's art …”
Read Mark S.'s full recommendation »
The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal Cover
“A missing person's story that goes beyond finding the person and deeper into the whys, and perhaps, ...”
Read Deirdre R.'s full recommendation »
And Now She's Gone Cover
“A little merboy learns that not everyone loves to be greeted with a big, huggy squish. This title does ...”
Read Paul C.'s full recommendation »
Can I Give You a Squish? Cover
“Half-sisters Camino and Yahaira have had very different upbringings in the Dominican Republic and New ...”
Read Sam G.'s full recommendation »
Clap When You Land Cover
“The friendship that springs up between a newly relocated mother and her child's babysitter has ...”
Read Elizabeth J.'s full recommendation »
Friends and Strangers Cover
“It's 1946 and Clara Falkenberg, once an heiress to the Falkenberg Iron Works, is working and hiding ...”
Read Theresa J.'s full recommendation »
The German Heiress Cover
“At Hazelton High, the football team’s needs are the administration’s only concern, and things like ...”
Read Ashley H.'s full recommendation »
Go With the Flow Cover
“Though queer indigenous author Belcourt writes of some of the darkest moments in Canada, both ...”
Read Elly R.'s full recommendation »
A History of My Brief Body Cover
“A hidden history revealed as immigrant children struggle on their own to survive and find their true ...”
Read Deirdre R.'s full recommendation »
How Much of These Hills is Gold Cover
“A beautifully illustrated and heartwarming picture book about the magic of friendship.”
Read Kris C.'s full recommendation »
In a Jar Cover
“After suffering through a broken engagement, Knighton decides to spend a year traveling to every ...”
Read Lindsey B.'s full recommendation »
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park Cover
“This multiple-perspective, near-future novel is so realistic that it might as well take place next ...”
Read Elly R.'s full recommendation »
Little Eyes Cover
“This finely written story follows Edie's life from her young womanhood to her 60s, as she defines who ...”
Read Rose Ann F.'s full recommendation »
The Lives of Edie Pritchard Cover
“Missy Carmichael was accustomed to her uneventful and lonely lifestyle in the house she had shared ...”
Read Kendall M.'s full recommendation »
The Love Story of Missy Carmichael Cover
“Lush Taipei serves as the backdrop for steamy romances to develop at Ever Wong’s summer program. Watch ...”
Read Nancy N.'s full recommendation »
Loveboat, Taipei Cover
“If you ever spent time working at or hanging out with friends in a mall in the 1990s, you won’t be ...”
Read Autumn H.'s full recommendation »
The Mall Cover
“Max realizes that the fantastical stories about guardians and travelers his grandfather tells him are ...”
Read Sam G.'s full recommendation »
Mañanaland Cover
“Set in the aftermath of a devastating storm, The Mercies imagines the lives of the women devastated by ...”
Read Erin D.'s full recommendation »
The Mercies Cover
“A world tour of the end of the world, this book takes the reader from survival bunkers in South Dakota ...”
Read Michael B.'s full recommendation »
Notes From An Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back Cover
“A hilarious and sometimes gory tale of a vampire trying to outwit a group of very Southern ladies. A ...”
Read Rose Ann F.'s full recommendation »
Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Cover

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