What were the five best books you read this year? We posed that question to our staff and the responses came flooding in. Here’s the first batch!
Molly –
Into: Emotionally resonant books concerned with the nature and expansion of reality
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well by James Allen Hall
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Gift by Barbara Browning/Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado*
*Molly says: “Sorry I TRULY COULD NOT DECIDE <3”
Gregory –
Into: Literary fiction, literature in translation
Cindy –
Into: Non-fiction mixed with fictional children’s stories
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour
Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors by Adam Rex
Christine –
Into: An eclectic mix of things
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Brit –
Into: SciFi, horror, crime
Chris –
Into: Books about sad sweet dreamers indwelling psychedelia
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