Staff Favorites
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2025 Staff Faves: Adult Fiction
Each year we ask our staff across the library for their favorite books published in the current year. Below you will find some of the fiction books that stood out to library staff in 2025. Find the full list of staff faves in our catalog: Seattle Staff Faves 2025: Fiction, Part 1 and Seattle Staff… Continue reading
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2025 Staff Faves: Adult Nonfiction
Each year we ask our staff across the library for their favorite books published in the current year. Featured below are some of the nonfiction books that multiple staff loved! Find the full list of staff faves in our catalog: Seattle Staff Faves 2025: Nonfiction. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by… Continue reading
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2025 Staff Faves: Picture Books
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 – below are just a few of the Kids books published in 2025 that our SPL staff loved! … Continue reading
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2025 Staff Faves: Kids Books
KIDS CHAPTER BOOKS Benny on the Case by Wesley King is a heartfelt character-driven mystery featuring a neurodivergent male protagonist that explores friendship, belonging, and family. [-School Library Journal] In Grace Lin’s The Gate, the Girl and the Dragon, a Stone Lion cub travels from the spirit realm into ours in order to save his… Continue reading
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2025 Staff Faves: Teen Books
Every year, we ask staff members around the library system what their favorite reads published this year were. 2025 is no different, and we have a stellar lineup of fiction and graphic novels. Graphic novels first: Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi began in 2024, but volumes 3 through 5 were published this year. The… Continue reading
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Staff Faves 2024: Children’s Books
Each year, 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 children’s books published in 2024 that our SPL staff loved! (Annotations are by enthusiastic staff… Continue reading
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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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Staff Faves 2024: Teen Fiction and Graphic Novels
Every fall, we ask staff members around the library system to share their favorite reads published in this year. 2024 is no different, and we have a stellar lineup of fiction and graphic novels. Aisle Nine, a graphic novel by Ian X. Cho, follows Jasper, whose amnesia may have something to do with his dead-end… Continue reading
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Staff Faves 2024: Adult Nonfiction
Library staff across the city weighed in on their favorite nonfiction books published in 2024 — and what a great list we created together! Read on for highlights of the excellent nonfiction included (these are books loved by multiple staff members) or jump right into the full 63 item list. And stay tuned this week… Continue reading
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Staff Faves 2023: Children’s Books
As 2023 draws to a close, Library staff want to share our 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 2023 that our SPL staff loved! PICTURE BOOKS In I’m Going to Build… Continue reading
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Librarians’ Favorite Reads this February
Among our most popular shares here on Shelf Talk happen each December when we share our Staff Favorites for Ficton and Non-Fiction, as well as books for kids and teens. But did you know that librarians and library workers from all across the country vote on their ten favorite titles each month? It’s called LibraryReads,… Continue reading