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