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 final batch!
Merrilee –
Into: Kids books, non fiction and “trashy” genre novels
Maya –Into: Graphic novels, humor writing, mythology and more
Spinning by Tillie Walden
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
The Penelopiad by Maragret Atwood
The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
Ellen –Into: Nearly anything for kids or teens, very select adult books and audio
How to be an Elephant by Katherine Roy
Lockwood & Co, Book 5: The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud
The Hate U Give (audio) by Angie Thomas
Vincent & Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Hellgman
How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Tomoko –Into: Kids, Fantasy, SciFi, and stories about broken people.
Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Amatka by Karin Tidbeck
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Uriel –Into: Literary fiction with a dash of weird
Wait Till You See Me Dance by Deb Olin Unferth
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Sara –Into: Classics and future classics
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Griffin –Into: Comics, SciFi, books that teach you about the universe
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
Kamandi Challenge by DC Comics
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
God Is Dead by Ron Currie
BookPeople 
these all sound so interesting –