What was the best book you read this year?
Patrons and staff met in the Community Room on Wednesday, Dec. 20, to share favorite reads from 2023. Here are the titles we discussed...
Fiction:
Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury
All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr
The Running Grave, Galbraith
The Weaver and the Witch Queen, Gornichec
Verity, Hoover
News of the World, Jiles
Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver
In the Lives of Puppets, Klune
The River We Remember, Krueger
North Woods, Mason
Killers of a Certain Age (2 votes), Raybourn
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, See
Sadie, Summers
The Goldfinch, Tartt
Lincoln Highway, Towles
Project Hail Mary (2 votes), Weir
Nonfiction
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, Egan
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, Grann
Underland: A Deep Time Journey, Macfarlane
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, Macfarlane
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries, Melville
The Deepest Map, Tretheway
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Join us in the Community Room Wednesday, December 20, 1-2pm
Come talk about the books you read and loved in 2023
and hear about books you’ll want to read in 2024!
Check out some of these "Best of 2023" lists from around the web: