Every year we ask our staff across the system for their favorite books published in a given year. Enjoy this variety of fiction staff favorites from 2023, with descriptions by our very own library staff!
Chain-gang All-stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
“In this book about a not too distant future, where the prison system has been turned into a bloodsport, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah manages to balance entertaining his audience with hand to hand combat, against vilifying his own action sequences and advocating for abolition.” -Dylan
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell
“A queer/trans inclusive cozy mystery with a gal that talks to her dead best friend and other Ghosts.” – Faye
Mimosa by Archie Bongiovonni
“I looove Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni so I was so excited for another great graphic novel about queer adults navigating life when it’s TOUGH.” -McCall
Saha by Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang
“Feels like an updated 1984, except I actually liked it. Deals with strict control a nation has over its citizens in a late capitalist world.” – Eliza E.
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
“Pensive, gay mountain lion? Yes please.” – Toby
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
“I loved this book; it felt so immersive and emotional rich to me, particularly within the Wallace family and Billy. I appreciated that Fiona McFarlane, a white settler writer, approached the Indigenous characters (Billy, Arranyinha/Nancy, Jimmy) with some humility and characterized her settler characters (the vast majority of those in the book) without totally romanticizing their existence in the so-called Flinders Range.” – Bean
A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
“This kaleidoscopic novel tells the stories of five generations of women in one Canadian Metis family, some living and some speaking from the afterlife, interspersed with the narrative of bison returning to their former grazing lands and other unexpected perspectives.” – Andrea
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
“I never liked fantasy until I read this?? I got swept up in the world building and loved this story about the magic of books.” – Eliza S.
Check out the rest of the staff adult fiction favorites and let us know some of yours!
~ posted by Jane S.
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