Some of My Favorite Books from 2010 to 2022
FICTION
The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black
Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
Well Traveled by Jen DeLuca
The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
All the Light We Cannot See, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
The Bartender’s Tale, The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Round House by Louise Erdrich
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
America for Beginners by Leah Franqui
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Conclave, Pompeii, Second Sleep by Robert Harris
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
The Guide, The River by Peter Heller
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Flight Behavior, Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet
Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim
The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman
The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
Jacqueline in Paris by Ann Mah
The Sea of Tranquility, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
For the Love of the Bard by Jessica Martin
Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
Caroline, Marmee by Sarah Miller
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler
Little Fires Everywhere, Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
The Bees by Laline Paull
The Paris Diverson by Chris Pavone
Dear Mrs. Bird, Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
Ellis and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior
The Watchmaker on Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghost by Kate Racculia
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Coronation Year and The Gown by Jennifer Robson
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Spies of Shilling Lane by Jennifer Ryan
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Two steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elziabeth Strout
Mr. Gandy’s Grand Tour by Alan Titchmarsh
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
When the English Fall by David Williams
The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer
The Last Policeman, A World of Trouble by Ben Winters
The Narrowboat Summer by Anne Youngson
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
MYSTERY
Round Up the Usual Peacocks, Dashing Through the Snowbirds by Donna Andrews
Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas, Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron
The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett
A Murder of Magpies by Judith Flanders
The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions by Kerry Greenwood
The Dry, The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart
The Tale Teller by Anne Hillerman
Cat Trick by Sofie Kelly
A Simple Murder by Eleanor Kuhns
The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Design for Dying by Rene Patrick
The Great Reckoning, The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
Breakup and Disappearance of a Scribe by Dana Stabenow
Bruno’s Challenge and Other Stories by Martin Walker
The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
The Goblin Emperor, The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Komarr, Penric’s Travels by Lois McMaster Bujold
Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
Starless by Jacqueline Carey
Records of a Spaceborn Few, A Psalm for the Wild Built, A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers
Alliance Rising by C.J. Cherryh and Jane Fancher
Divergence, Emergence, Foreigner, Resurgence by C.J. Cherryh
Silver on the Road by Laura Gilman
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Valour and Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal
Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Provenance by Ann Leckie
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Crown of Renewal by Elizabeth Moon
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Project Hail Mary, The Martian by Andy Weir
Crosstalk by Connie Willis
TEEN FICTION
Crossed by Ally Conde
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
NON-FICTION
Not Fade Away by Rebecca Alexander
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck
The Longest Road by Philip Caputo
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
Haben by Haben Girma
The Boys by Ron and Clint Howard
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Maphead by Ken Jennings
Lives in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson
Endurance by Scott Kelly
Rocket Men by Robert Kurson
If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now by Christopher Ingraham
Maid by Stephanie Land
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
Underland by Robert MacFarlane
Wild by Nature by Sarah Marquis
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
81 Days Below Zero by Brian Murphy
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
Smitten Kitchen Keepers by Deb Perelman
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
The Smallest Lights in the Universe by Sara Seager
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley
Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar
This is the topic of my book display this month at the library. It is, of course, only a partial list of favorites. Happy reading!
Brenda