Friday, December 30, 2011

Staff Picks of 2011

The staff at Deerfield Public Library has done a lot of reading this year! In order to share our love of books with you, we've compiled a list of our favorite books that we've read this year.  Keep in mind, they aren't necessarily books that have been published this year.  Just books that we read in 2011 and loved!  

Julie

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Persuasion by Jane Austen

Noreen

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Clara and Mr. Tiffany  by Susan Vreeland
Definitely Not Mr. Darcy  by Karen Doornebos
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Ted

In The Garden Of Beasts by Erik Larson
Life by Keith Richards
Batman:  Year One by Frank Miller
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown
Paying For It by Chester Brown
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Drinking At The Movies by Julia Wertz
The Sinner’s Grand Tour:  A Journey Through The Historical Underbelly of Europe by Tony Perrottet
How To Understand Israel in 60 Days Or Less by Sarah Glidden
Unbroken by Sarah Hillenbrand

Terri

The Submission by Amy Waldman
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Adler-Olsen
The Quickening by Michelle Hoover
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

Janet

Warmth of Other Sun by Isabel Wilkerson 
Townie by Andre Dubus III
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Room by Emma Donoghue
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Art of Fielding by Chad Harback
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Emily

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Hunger Games series
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Madeline

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell


Melissa

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
 The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
Bossypants by Tina Fey



Kay

Breaking Night by Liz Murray
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
The Hypnotist by Lars Keplar
Conquistadora by Esmerelda Santiago
Bossypants by Tina Fey 

Jessica


1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville
Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Rose of No Man’s Land by Michelle Tea
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead by Neil Strauss
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Daddy’s by Lindsay Hunter
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Swamplandia! By Karen Russell
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut




There are plenty more books that we loved but just didn't quite make our "favorite" lists this year so be sure to ask us for suggestions!

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