Staff Reads

Looking for some ideas of what to read? These are some of the books our staff members are currently reading or recently finished.

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Staff Reads from 2021:

• All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams
• Americanah by Chimamanda Nzodi Adichie
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. (adult biography)
• The Barnabas Project by Eric Fan
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
• Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by James E. Ransome (children’s, picture book biography)
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
• Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz (historical fiction for ages 8-12)
• Bloodsworn by Scott Reintgen
• The Bounty by Janet Evanovich
• The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• A Cat’s Guide to Bonding with Dragons by Chris Behrsin
• Check Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
• Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
• Conspiracy of Ravens by J. C. McKenzie
• Convergence by TurtleMe
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Crow Rider by Kalyn Josephson
• Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
• Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• The Dangerous Gift by Tui T. Sutherland
• Dead as a Door Knocker by Diane Kelly
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone (young adult fiction)
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge
• The Dilemma by B.A. Paris
• Dragon Masters: Fortress of the Stone Dragon by Tracey West
• The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Enough! 20 Protesters who changed America, written by Emily Easton, illustrated by Ziyue Chen (children’s, picture book, collective biography)
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• The Finisher by David Baldacci
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis (nonfiction)
• The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner
• Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
• Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams (fiction for ages 9-13)
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
• Grateful by Diana Butler Bass
• The Great Chicago Fire by Kate Hannigan
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Gwendy’s Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar
• Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
• Hippie by Paulo Coelho
• A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel
• Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
• The Honey Bus by Meredith May
• How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
• Hunt, Gather, Parent: What ancient cultures can teach us about the lost art of raising happy, helpful little humans by Michaeleen Doucleff
• I am brave: A little book about Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer, illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos (children’s, picture book biography)
• I have a dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. (eBook, children’s picture book)
• I have a dream by Martin Luther King, Jr., paintings by Kadir Nelson (juvenile kit, children’s picture book with CD included)
• I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: the Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• It’s Not About Me by Max Lucado
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami
• Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 2 by Gege Akutami
• The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste (fiction for ages 9-12)
• Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
• A Kingdom of Flesh & Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers
• The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley (audiobook)
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison (collective biography for ages 8-12)
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
• Longitude by Dava Sobel
• The Lost Spells by Robert MacFarlane
• Martin Luther King Jr.: Let freedom ring by Michael Teitelbaum & Lewis Helfand, illustrated by Naresh Kumar (children’s graphic novel biography)
• Martin Luther King Jr.: Marchar para la igualdad by Stephanie E. Macceca (children’s Spanish biography)
• The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
• Miss Mayhem by Rachel Hawkins
• My Brother’s Husband, Vol. 1 by Gengoroh Tagame
• My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
• My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage by In This Together Media (Editor) (teen nonfiction)
• The Night Will Find Us by Matthew Lyons
• Nine Bodies Rolling by Stephanie Bond
• Noodle Fighter Miki #1 by Jun Sadogawa
• An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
• On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux (audiobook on Libby)
• One by One by Ruth Ware
• The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
• A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope, edited by Patrice Caldwell (short stories for teens)
• A Place to Land by Barry Wittenstein (eBook, children’s nonfiction)
• President of the Whole Fifth Grade by Sherri Winston (fiction for ages 9-12)
• Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Ibi Zoboi (young adult fiction)
• A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole
• Professional Idiot by Steven “Steve‑O” Glover
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam (young adult fiction)
• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
• Red Tigress by Amélie Wen Zhao
• The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
• Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Revelation of Louisa May by Michaela MacColl
• School Spirits by Rachel Hawkins
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Secrets of Tree Taylor by Dandi Daley Mackall
• Servamp, vol. 1, by Strike Tanaka
• Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
• The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• Six Years by Harlan Coben
• Smash It! by Francina Simone (teen fiction)
• Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur (teen poetry)
• A Song Below Water: A Novel by Bethany C. Morrow (teen fiction)
• Starlight by Erin Hunter
• The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson
• The Strangers (Greystone Secrets, book #1) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Swindle by Gordon Korman
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! by Eleonora Tate (electronic audiobook, children’s)
• The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• To Tell You the Truth by Gilly Macmillan
• To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey
• The Traitor Queen by Danielle L. Jensen
• Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession by Sarah Weinman
• Vinland Saga by Makamoto Yukimura
• A Wedding to Die For by Leann Sweeney
• When broken glass floats: growing up under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
• Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• White Palace by Glenn Savan
• The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
• The Wicked King by Holly Black
• The Width of the World by David Baldacci
• Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
• Words that build a nation: Voices of democracy that have shaped America’s history by Marilyn Miller (young adult nonfiction)
• Written in Starlight by Isabel Ibanez
• The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
• You Need a Budget by Jesse Mecham

Staff Reads from 2020:

• 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
• Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
• American Sign Language Phrase Book (with DVD) by Lou & Barbara Bernstein Fant (adult nonfiction, language-learning)
• Anger is a Gift by Mark Ohiro (YA realistic fic Black lives matterish and LGBTQ)
• Atkins: Eat Right, Not Less by Colette Heimowitz
• Attack on Titan: Junior High, vol. 1 by Saki Nakagawa (YA graphic novel, manga)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (nonfiction, biography/autobiography)
• Back Roads to Belonging: Unexpected Paths to Finding Your Place and Your People by Kristen Strong (adult nonfiction)
• The Backstagers, vol. 1, written by James Tynion IV, illustrated by Rian Sygh
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (YA dystopian fiction)
• Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson (humor, chapter book)
• The Big Awesome Book of Hand & Chalk Lettering by Dina Rodriguez (adult nonfiction)
• Bigmama Didn’t Shop at Woolworths by Sunny Nash (adult nonfiction, memoir)
• Black Butler, vol. I, by Yana Toboso
• Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard by Echo Brown
• Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya (coming of age novel, classic of Chicano literary canon)
• Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
• The Breakdown by B.A. Paris (adult fiction, thriller)
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (YA fantasy)
• Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris (adult fiction, thriller)
• By the Book by Amanda Sellet
• Camino Winds by John Grisham (mystery, thriller, adult fiction)
• Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
• Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
• Christmas Kitchen Cookbook by Gooseberry Patch (adult nonfiction eBook)
• Circe: A novel by Madeline Miller (adult fiction, audiobook version)
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
• Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
• Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
• The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
• Crooked River by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (suspense)
• Crookedstar’s Promise by Erin Hunter (juvenile fiction, fantasy/adventure)
• Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
• Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto (young adult fantasy)
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez
• Daring Greatly by Brené Brown (adult nonfiction)
• The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason
• Dawn by Erin Hunter
• Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
• Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Doctor Dogs: How Our Best Friends are Becoming Our Best Medicine by Maria Goodavage (adult nonfiction)
• The Doll People’s Christmas by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, illustrated by Brett Helquist (children’s picture book)
• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
• A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (young adult fantasy)
• Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks (adult fiction, romance)
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Extreme Prey by John Sandford
• Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy (teen fiction)
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• Field of Prey by John Sandford (mystery)
• Flamebringer by Elle Katharine White (fantasy)
• Forbidden Falls by Robyn Carr
• Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich
• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel (beginning reader fiction; a celebration of friendship; 5 stories full of fun and adventure; the illustrations are so charming that it’s good even if you just look at the pictures)
• From the Land of Genesis by Stephen J. O’Shea
• Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
• Gathering Prey by John Sandford (adult fiction, thriller)
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
• George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade (history, adult nonfiction)
• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
• The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can by Tererai Trent
• Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
• The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
• The Great Influenza by John M Barry (adult non-fiction)
• The Happiest Toddler on the Block by Harvey Karp
• Harley Quinn: Make ’em Laugh #1 Head Shrink, written by Mark Russell, illustrated by Laura Braga, colored by Luis Guerrero, lettered by Marshall Dillon, cover by Andrew Robinson (digital comic book, teen)
• Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil
• Heartwood Box by Ann Aguirre
• Holiday by Candlelight by Laurel Greer (new adult Hanukkah fiction)
• Hollywood Park : a memoir by Mikel Jollett
• “home: habitat, range, niche, territory: A Dr. Mensah Story” by Martha Wells (science fiction short story)
• House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City) by Sarah J. Maas
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (fiction, series of vignettes, little episodes about a 12-year-old Chicano girl in the Hispanic part of Chicago, over the span of one year)
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss (children’s picture book)
• I Don’t Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux
• In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren (new popular adult Christmas rom-com fiction)
• Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho
• The Insurrection (The Initiation #3) by Chris Babu (young adult dystopian fiction)
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (adult nonfiction)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (classic, African-American, adult fiction)
• Lavender Lies by Susan Wittig Albert
• Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick (adult fiction)
• The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (murder mystery, adult fiction)
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Locked In by John Scalzi
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
• Lucky Dog Lessons by Brandon McMillan
• Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
• Max the Brave by Ed Vere
• Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyers
• Miss Iceland by Auður A. Ólafsdóttir
• Moonlight Road by Robyn Carr
• Murder on a Mystery Tour by Marian Babson, audiobook read by Steven Crossley
• My First Kwanzaa by Karen Katz (children’s picture book)
• My life as an ice cream sandwich by Ibi Zoboi (middle grade novel)
• My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories, edited by Stephanie Perkins (holiday short stories for teens)
• Network Effect by Martha Wells
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• New Kid by Jerry Craft (YA graphic novel)
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore (all ages, classic)
• Normal People by Sally Rooney (adult fiction, audiobook)
• Northwest Angle by William Kent Krueger (adult fiction, mystery)
• Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens (crime novel, adult fiction)
• The Nutcracker in Harlem by T. E. McMorrow, illustrated by James Ransome (children’s picture book)
• On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle
• Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa
• The One and Only by Emily Giffin
• One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
• Open Season by C.J. Box (adult fiction, murder mystery)
• Ophelia by Lisa Klein
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• Out of the Blue by Jan Wong
• The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose by Oprah Winfrey
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (adult fiction)
• Pidge’s Story by Cala Spinner
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (adult fiction)
• Poppy by Avi (juvenile fiction, fantasy)
• Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage: My Life with Yogi Bhajan by Pamela Saharah Dyson (adult nonfiction, memoir)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (fiction, classic)
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
• Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (adult fiction)
• Redwood Bend by Robyn Carr
• Rescue Dogs: Where They Come From, Why They Act the Way They Do and How to Love Them by Pete Paxton with Gene Stone (adult nonfiction)
• Rhett and Link’s Book of Mythicality by Neal and McLaughlin
• The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery Book by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile (adult nonfiction)
• Sammy Spider’s First Hanukkah, written by Sylvia A. Rouss, illustrated by Katherine Janus Kahn (children’s picture book)
• The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman
• The Searcher by Tana French
• Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke (YA fantasy fiction)
• Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
• Shamed by Linda Castillo (adult fiction, suspense)
• Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr
• A Shiloh Christmas by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (children’s fiction, chapter book)
• Shuri (a Black Panther novel) by Nic Stone (middle grade fiction, between advanced juvenile fiction and YA fiction; Marvel fiction spin-off with purple font)
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
• So This is Love by Elizabeth Lim
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (adult nonfiction)
• Solo Leveling Vol 1 by ParkSon Choi
• Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, adapted from Stamped from the Beginning by and with an introduction from Ibram X. Kendi
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (fantasy, adult fiction)
• The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
• Temptation Ridge by Robyn Carr
• They Called Us Enemy, written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott, art by Harmony Becker
• This is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home by Lauren Sandler
• Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
• Trace of Evil by Alice Blanchard
• Tranquility Falls by Davis Bunn (fiction)
• Trophy Hunt by CJ Box
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (YA fantasy)
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (juvenile fiction)
• The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand (romance, adult fiction)
• What is not yours is not yours by Helen Oyeyemi
• When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
• Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger
• Winter Kill by C. J. Box
• A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
• The Witch Elm by Tana French (suspense)

Staff Reads from 2019:

• 101 Asian Dishes You Need to Cook Before You Die by Jet Tila
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera
• Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine (audio, narrated by Barrie Kreinik)
• Aru Shah and the Song of Death by Roshani Chokshi
• Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones (downloaded through the 2019 SYNC Audiobooks for Teens program)
• Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger
• The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
• Bull by David Elliott
• Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
• City of a Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster (audio, narrated by Shannon McManus)
• Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
• Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China  by Eddie Huang
• Dragonshadow by Elle Katharine White
• The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
• Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks
• First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas
• Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh (audio, narrated by Nancy Wu)
• Flamingo Diner by Sherryl Woods
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena (downloaded through the 2019 SYNC Audiobooks for Teens program)
• Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
• Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
• The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga by Marilynn Wei
• A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
• He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest for Justice by Jeanine Pirro
• Heartstone by Elle Katharine White
• Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• How I Got This Way by Patrick McManus
• How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
• Judgment by Joseph Finder
• Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
• The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
• Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich
• Murder in the Front Row: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter by Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew
• The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
• Puddin’ by Julie Murphy
• Religions of the East: Paths to Enlightenment by Stephen Prothero (audio, narrated by Stephen Prothero)
• Renegades by Marissa Meyer
• Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman
• Sergeant Reckless by Patricia McCormick (Texas Bluebonnet Award winner)
• Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
• Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
• Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living by Jes Baker
• Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• When Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin
• Worst Case by James Patterson
• You by Caroline Kepnes (audio, narrated by Santino Fontana)