Did You Know: Recommended Reading

[info]Did you know … which books are on the Nyack Library recommended reading list? The Nyack Library is staffed by readers with as broad a span of interests as that of the community they serve. We asked the staff to list the books they really enjoyed reading this year. Twenty-three employees replied, often with multiple titles. There were works of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, religion, science, science fiction, mysteries, thrillers, classics, even a children’s title or two. If you’re looking for a book to hunker down with as you enter the new year, take a look at this list of winners.

• As You Wish by Cary Elwes
• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
• We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
• Leaving Time by Jody Piccoult
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• Help for the Haunted by John Searles
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (two votes)
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Adam Bede by George Eliot
• Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
• We are Water by Wally Lamb
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson
• Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
• Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank by Barbara Sinatra
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Book 3, the Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
• The Big Bang Never Happened by Eric J. Lerner
• Tenth of December by George Saunders (two votes)
• God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet
• Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Tehran at Twilight  by Salar Abdoh
• How To Build A Girl by Caitlyn Moran
• The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
• Lock In by John Scalzi
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• The Map Thief by Michael Blanding
• Underwater Dogs by Seth Casteel
• Delicious by Ruth Reichl

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