Staff Picks

 

What We Read and Enjoyed in 2008

 

Our staff are great readers. We invite you to share and explore some of our favourite reads.

 

As you browse this list, you will quickly discover that we read widely in all genres and areas of the diverse KPL collections. You will also discover that like all readers we too discover new authors and hidden, previously unexplored treasures, and so not all of the titles on this list are recent releases, just titles that we wanted to share with you; enjoy!

 

 

 

FICTION  |  NON-FICTION  |  GRAPHIC NOVELS  |  TEEN FICTION

 

 

 

Fiction Picks

 

 

Apple, Max

The Jew of Home Depot and other stories

Barlow, Toby

Sharp Teeth

Becka, Elizabeth

Unknown Means

Binchy, Maeve

Heart & Soul

Binchy, Maeve

Whitethorn Woods

Box, C.J.

Blue Heaven

Boyden, Joseph

Through Black Spruce

Buchanan, Edna

Legally Dead

Cameron, Julia

Mozart’s Ghost

Cameron, Susan

These Four Walls

Clare, Cassandra

The City of Bones

Coben, Harlan

Hold Tight

Dave, Laura

The Divorce Party

De Gramont, Nina

Gossip of the Starlings

Donnelly, Jennifer

The Tea Rose

Eddings, David

The Belgariad

Follett, Ken

World Without End

Gardiner, Meg

The Dirty Secrets Club

Goldstone, Lawrence

The Anatomy of Deception

Gross, Andrew

Dark tide

Gruen, Sara

Water for Elephants

Guinn, Jeff

The Autobiography of Santa Claus

Hay, Elizabeth

Late Nights on Air

Hospital, Janette Turner

Orpheus Lost

Hosseini, Khaled

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Humphreys, Helen

Coventry

Itani, Frances

Remembering the Bones

Jennings, Maureen

The K Handshape: a Christine Morris mystery

Jones, Lloyd

Mister Pip

Kidd, Sue Monk

The Secret Life of Bees

King, Stephen

Duma Key

Kundera, Milan

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Laurence, Margaret

The Stone Angel

Lawson, Mary

Crow Lake

Le Carré, John

The Constant Gardener

Levien, David

City of the Sun

McKay, Ami

The Birth House

McFetridge, John

Dirty Sweet

Marr, Melissa

Wicked Lovely

Meyer, Stephenie

The Host

Meyer, Stephenie

The Twilight Saga

Milner, Donna

After River

Moore, Christopher

Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Moore, Lorrie

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital

Mosse, Kate

Sepulchre

Packer, Ann

Songs without Words

Parker, Barbara

The Dark of Day

Pearson, Ridley

Killer View

Penney, Stef

The Tenderness of Wolves

Penny, Louise

Still Life

Penny, Louise

Dead Cold

Penny, Louise

The Cruellest Month

Petterson, Per

Out Stealing Horses

Quinn, Daniel

Ishmael

Rendell, Ruth

Not in the Flesh

Robinson, Peter

Friend of the Devil

Rosnay, Titiana de

Sarah's Key

Salzman, Mark

The Soloist

Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Siddons, Anne Rivers

Off Season

Stein, Garth

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Tolstoy, Leo

Anna Karenina

Tsukiyama , Gail

Street of a Thousand Blossoms

Turow, Scott

The Burden of Proof

Updale, Eleanor

Montmorency : thief, liar, gentleman?

Vida, Vendela

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

Villa, James

Dancing in the Lowcountry

Ward, Amanda Eyre

Forgive Me

Wolfe, Inger Ash

The Calling

Wroblewski, David

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

 

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Non-Fiction Picks

 

 

Bezrich, Ben

Rigged: the true story of an Ivy League kid who changed the world of oil from Wall Street to Dubai 

Buckman, Robert

Not Dead Yet: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Dr. Robert Buckman

Cantor, Norman

The Last Knight : the twilight of the Middle Ages and the birth of the modern era

Dawidoff, Nicholas

The Crowd Sounds Happy : a story of love, madness, and baseball

Doidge, Norman

The Brain That Changes Itself

Dunleavey, M. P.

Money Can Buy Happiness: how to spend to get the life you want

Gladwell, Malcolm

Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking

Gilbert, Elizabeth

Eat, Pray, Love

Harris, Mark

Pictures at a Revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood

Humes, Edward

Monkey Girl : evolution, education, religion, and the battle of America's soul

Koeppel, Dan

Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world

Krakauer, Jon

Into The Wild

Lander, Christian

Stuff White People Like: the definitive guide to the unique taste of millions

Lane, Patrick

There is a Season: a Memoir in a Garden

Logan, Jason

If We Ever Break Up, This Is My Book

Logan, Jason

iGeneration: shuffling toward the future

Martin, Steve

Born standing up: a comic’s life 

Myron, Vicki

Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world

Pausch, Randy

The Last Lecture

Penn, Mark J.

Microtrends: the small forces behind tomorrow's big changes

Rawsthorn, Alice

Yves St. Laurent:  a biography 

Ripley, Amanda

The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes and how we can do better

Safire, William

How Not To Write: the essential misrules of grammar

Stross, Randall

Planet Google : one company's audacious plan to organize everything we know

Thompson, Damian

Counterknowledge : how we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history

Vonnegut, Mark

The Eden Express : a memoir of insanity

 

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Graphic Novels

 

 

Barry, Lynda

One Hundred Demons

Barry, Lynda

What It Is

 

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Teen Fiction

 

 

Anonymous

Go Ask Alice

Bondoux, Ann-Laure

The Killer's Tears

Boyne, John

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Clare, Cassandra

The City of Bones

Collins, Suzanne

The Hunger Games

Doctorow, Cory

Little Brother

Leavitt, Marine

Keturah and Lord Death

Reeve, Philip

Here Lies Arthur

Werlin, Nancy

Impossible

Wizner, Jake

Spanking Shakespeare

Zarr, Sara

Story of a Girl

 

 

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