best books of the year
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Staff Faves 2024: Adult Fiction
At the end of each year, Library staff weigh in on their favorite reads published that year and boy, did they deliver for adult fiction! With nearly 120 titles, we had to create two lists to fit all of the books that most moved SPL workers this year. Check out the lists in full or… Continue reading
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Seattle Staff Faves 2022: Nonfiction
Library staff across the city weighed in on their favorite nonfiction books published in 2022 — and what a great list we created together! Read on for highlights of the excellent nonfiction included, with raves from staff; or jump straight into the full 36-item list. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton… Continue reading
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Teen Staff Faves 2022
Each year, we ask library staff around the system for their favorite books published that year. Here are this year’s teen titles. In The Charmed List by Julie Abe, Ellie and Jack, two teens with magical abilities, are forced to go on a road trip as punishment for a prank gone wrong. Along the way,… Continue reading
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Kids Staff Faves 2022
As the year draws to a close, we enjoy asking staff from across the library system to share their favorite Kids books of the year. From picture books to chapter books, and from graphic novels to nonfiction – here are just a few of the Kids books published in 2022 that our SPL staff loved!… Continue reading
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Seattle Staff Faves 2022: Fiction
A New Year approaches which can only mean that it is once again time for us to share our Staff Favorites for another year. Here is some of our favorite recent fiction for grown ups – you’ll find the whole list here. Small Game, by Blair Braverman. “A wild chase up to and beyond the… Continue reading
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Ten Non-Fiction Books We Loved in 2018
As the New Year approaches, join our librarians in looking back on our favorite reading of the year gone by. By popular acclaim, here are ten non-fiction titles that made the biggest impact on us in 2018. (Fiction and books for youth will follow in the days to come). 2018 was a huge year for… Continue reading
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My Favorite 2017 Science Fiction and Fantasy
Every year I set reading goals for myself. One of those goals is to read as much as possible. I also try to get to a few older books I have been meaning to read. But trying to read the latest releases in literary fiction, nonfiction and science fiction and fantasy is an evergreen reading… Continue reading
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Our Top 10 Children’s Chapter Books, Poetry, and Graphic Novels of 2017
Yesterday, Children’s Services Librarians from The Seattle Public Library shared our favorite picture books of the year – and today, we want to share our ten favorites for children, in the “everything else” category!: chapter books, poetry, and graphic novels. Enjoy! Refugee by Alan Gratz A gripping, timely novel that follows three children – from… Continue reading
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Our Top 10 Children’s Picture Books of 2017
Children’s Services Librarians from The Seattle Public Library have selected our ten favorite picture books of the year. Though it’s a challenge to limit ourselves to ten titles (check out our longer list of favorite 2017 picture books), we all responded to the joy in these ten books – each is a celebration: of home… Continue reading
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Our Top 10 Teen Books of 2017
Every year, we look for the best books written for young adults. We all have our personal favorites, of course, but there are inevitably a handful of books that rise to the top. This year, our collective favorite titles cover an impressively wide range of timely and important topics, from immigration and criminal justice to… Continue reading
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Our Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2017
… according to Seattle Public Library adult librarians Yesterday we listed our librarians’ favorite novels of 2017; today, we present you with the list of our ten favorite nonfiction books published in 2017, from memoirs to essay collections to history and cooking. Continue reading
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Our Top 10 Novels of 2017
… according to Seattle Public Library’s adult librarians The librarians here at the Seattle Public Library conferred, and here are our favorite ten novels published in 2017, from a debut mystery to the conclusion of a fantasy trilogy, a debut by a Washington state author to the winner of the 2017 National Book Award for… Continue reading
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Best of the Best of lists
Year-end lists can be the best, giving you ideas to round out your 2016 reading year and take into 2017. Here are some lists created by librarians – from the expected, such as best novels and top ten picture books; to the unusual, such as the best books with red covers. We’ve also added some… Continue reading
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Our Top 10 Novels of 2016
… according to Seattle Public Library’s Reader Services department. As Reader Services librarians, we spend our days at the Central Library talking to people about books and suggesting reading we think they might enjoy next. Of course, we’re readers too. With the end of the year approaching we sat down and collaborated on a list… Continue reading