Fiction
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Nightboat To Tangier by Kevin Barry
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Trojan War Museum by Ayse Papatya Bucak
Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Greenwood by Michael Christie
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nahesi Coates
Dominica by Angie Cruz
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Stay And Fight by Madeline Fitch
The Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Things In Jars by Sue Monk Kidd
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
The Institute by Stephen King
Last Night In Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Trans(re)lating by Poopeh Missaghi
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
Inland by Tea Obreht
Weather by Jenny Offill
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Braised Pork by An Yu
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
How Much Of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Mystery
She Lover of Death by Boris Akunin
The Killing Tide by Jean-Luc Bannalec
Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay
The Herd by Andrew Bartz
Above the Bay of Angels by Rhys Bowen
The Sixth Conspirator by Max Byrd
The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri
One Last Lie by Paul Doiron
Under Occupation by Alan Furst
C’est La Vie by Pascal Garnier
Divers Paradise by Davin Goodwin
Camino Winds by John Grisham
Takes One To Know One by Susan Isaacs
Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
Agent Running In the Field by John Le Carre
Trace Elements by Donna Leon
Heaven My Home by Attica Locke
A Silent Death by Peter May
Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by Bart Paul
A Better Man by Louise Penny
Death In Focus by Ann Perry
Sara Jane by Jim Sallis
Hid From Our Eyes by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Man That Got Away by Lynne Truss
Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright
Fantasy and Science Fiction
The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
Mun Mun by Jesse Andrews
Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
The Wolf and the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky
Blue Window by Adina Gewirtz
The Library of the Unknown by A. J Hackwith
Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Empire of Grass by Tad Williams
Poetry
The Clearing by Allison Adair
American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander
How To Love A Country by Richard Blanco
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Harold Bloom
Til I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems by Harold Bloom
The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems From Many Cultures by Robert Bly
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
New and Selected Poems by Tori Derricotte
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
In Mad Love And War by Joy Harjo
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Mr. Memory and Other Poems by Phyllis Levin
Whereas by Layla Long Soldier
The Rumi Collection by Rumi
The Best Of It by Kay Ryan
The Pajamaist by Matthew Zapruder
Art
Abstract Expressionism by David Anfam
Vija Celmins: To Fix An Image in Memory by Gary Carrels
Shara Hughes: Landscapes by Mia Locks
Video Art: The First 50 Years by Barbara London
Art = by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art for All: The Color Woodcut in Vienna Around 1900 by Tobias G. Nutter
Gerhard Richter: Painting After All by Sheena Wagstaff
Non Fiction: History, Science, Social Science, Essays
The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
Upheaval by Jared Diamond
Bottle of LIes: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning by Alex Halberstadt
Seaweed Soul by Larch Hanson
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 edited by Sam Kean
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The Absent Hand by Susannah Lessard
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
Underland by John MacFarland
Landmarks by Robert MacFarland
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Stamped by Jason Reynolds
Sun Gardens by Larry Schaef
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Science Set Free by Rupert Sheldrake
What It’s Like To Be A Bird by David Sibley
Eat Like A Fish by Bren Smith
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Caterpillars of Eastern North America by David Wagner
Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists by Ken Wilbur
Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
Biography and Memoir
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me by Deirdre Bair
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
Philosophers of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
A Drop of Midnight by Jason Diakite
I Want You To Know We Are Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
What We Carry by Maya Lang
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Frantz Fanon by David Macey
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
The House of Kennedy by James Patterson
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby
Square Hunting by Francesca Wade
Young Adult
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Wunderling by Mira Bartok
Douglas by Randy Cecil
The Dog Who Lost His Bark by Eoin Colfer
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
Louisania’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
Race To The Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eager
No Map, Great Trip by Paul Fleischman
Spaced Out by Stuart Gibbs
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance and Being You by Kathryn Gonzales
Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly
Mythologica by Steve Kershaw
Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid by Jeff Kinney
Wild Honey From the Moon by Kenneth Kraegel
Quest of the Cubs by Kathryn Lasky
On the Horizon by Lois Lowry
The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis
Big Foot and Little Foot by Ellen Potter
My Parents Think I’m Sleeping by Jack Prelutsky
Love, Penelope by Joanne Rocklin
Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids by Christina Herkert Schul
Born To Fly by Steve Sheinkin
Zora & Me by T.R. Simon
Cody and the Heart of a Champion by Tricia Springstubb
Malamander by Thomas Taylor
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
My Sweet Orange Tree by Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan
Martians by Blythe Woolston
Children’s Picture Books
Maybe Tomorrow by Charlotte Agell
The Flight of Mr. Finch by Thomas Baas
Just Because by Mac Barnett
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II To Peace by Ashley Bryan
What Does An Anteater Eat? By Ross Collins
Parker Looks Up by Parker Curry
Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl
The Backyard Bug Book for Kids by Lauren Davidson
Malo and the Merry-go-round by Maria Dek
Llama Llama Loves Camping by Anna Dewdney
Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis
Home by Carson Ellis
This Is Baby by Jimmy Fallon
Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera
Walls by Brad Holdgrafer
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Serious Goose by Jimmy Kimmel
Green Pants by Kenneth Kraegel
This Way, Charlie by Carol Levis
Over and Under the Rainforest by Kate Messner
I’ve Got A Tail! by Julie Murphy
Typewriter by Yevgenia Nayberg
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
Ode to an Onion by Alexandria Giardino
How To Put A Whale In A Suitcase by Guridi
Bunny Overboard by Claudia Rueda
Hungry Jim by Laurel Snyder
The Dictionary of Difficult Words by Jane Solomon
Scared of the Dark? It’s Really Scared of You by Peter Vegas
Our House Is On Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call To Save The Planet by Jeanette Winter
My Bison by Gaya Wisniewski
The Hiccupotamus by Aaron Zenz
Special thanks to: Michael Gourley, Sandip Wilson, Susan Hirschman and Lara Tupper for gifting us books this year! All other books were selected by the Librarian and the Book Committee. Come read!
