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2020 Best Books Brochure Best Books 2020 CPheoilpdlree'ns Choice Stay Connected Book titles in this document are hyperlinked and when clicked will take you to our catalog. PICTURE BOOKS The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate This eclectic selection of titles focuses primarily on I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes books of interests for adult readers published in Swashby and the Sea by Beth Ferry 2020 2020. The list is compiled from patron and West Linn What About Worms!? by Ryan T. Higgins BEST staff recommendations, as well as recommendations Antiracist Baby Picture Book from over a dozen critics' best book of the year lists, by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky including the New York Times, Book Riot, and Kirkus Lift by Minh Lê Reviews. Goodreads ratings also assisted in compiling We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom the list, in addition to helping select critic recommendations. Dewdrop by Katie O'Neill The Paper Kingdom by Helena Ku Rhee Please ask staff or review our online catalog for a I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott BOOKS books availability and current location. Outside In by Deborah Underwood & FAVORITE DISCOVERSIES Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai Library Service Updates: The sections are organized by the author's last name. westlinnoregon.gov/library/updates-library-services Pictures with a icon have been identified as Learn about our Curbside Service: spectacular audiobooks. westlinnoregon.gov/library/curbside-service Get Book Recommendations: Top Checkouts 2020 Young Adult Adult- bit.ly/3704Hn1 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Youth- bit.ly/3aSxxoj Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell Camino Winds by John Grisham The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano Becoming by Michelle Obama Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens FICTION The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout The King of Crows by Libba Bray Educated by Tara Westover To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2014) by Jenny Han GET THEM ON The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Series) by Ransom Riggs Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Upcoming events for all ages: The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep by Allan Wolf bit.ly/wlpl-online-events-programs Fantasy Archived Facebook Live programs: bit.ly/wlpl-facebook-videos The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black Chain of Gold (The Last Hours Series) Record programs on YouTube: by Cassandra Clare bit.ly/wlpl-youtube-playlists The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games Series) by Suzanne Collins Midnight Sun (Twilight Series) by Stephenie Meyer 1595 Burns Street West Linn, OR 97068 GRAPHIC NOVELS 503-656-7853 Flamer by Mike Curato www.westlinnlibrary.org Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir Online Catalog | LINCC.org by Robin Ha Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman PEOPLE'S CHOICE NON-FICTION FICTION Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar FICTION NON-FICTION Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Afterlife by Julia Alvarez by Eddie S. Glaude The Death of Vivek Oji Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Minor Feelings: An Asian American by Akwaeke Emezi Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Adventure Like No Other Left To Die (To Die Series) (2008) Reckoning Actress by Anne Enright by Sam Heughan by Cathy Park Hong The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante by Lisa Jackson Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby Deacon King Kong by James McBride Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi How to Be An Antiracist (2019) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid That a Movement Forgot Luster by Raven Leilani by Ibram X. Kendi by Mikki Kendall His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie Fantasy Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet Failure to Launch by Mark McConville Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty Die With Zero by Bill Perkins Blitz My Dark Vanessa Crescent City by Sarah J. Maas Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Erik Larson by Kate Elizabeth Russell The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Jason Reynolds Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith Real Life by Brandon Taylor by V. E. Schwab The Socrates Express by Eric Weiner Vesper Flights The Empress of Salt and Fortune Caste by Isabel Wilkerson by Helen Macdonald Fantasy & Sci-Fi by Nghi Vo Cookbooks The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Wealth, Race and Shorefall (The Founders Series) Historical Happy in a Hurry cookbook by Steve Doocy by Robert Bennet Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Power The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett by Deirdre Mask Piranesi by Susanna Clarke The Library of Legends by Janie Chang Gathering, Volume 2 The City We Became by N.K Jemisin by Joanna Gaines Just Us: An American Conversation The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner by Claudia Rankine The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook Inheritors by Asako Serizawa Memoir & Biographies Historical by Ina Garten Horror Gordon Ramsay Quick and Delicious: 100 Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich Recipes to Cook in 30 Minutes or Less The Dragons, the Giant, the Women Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia by Gordon Ramsay by Wayétu Moore Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying The Dead Are Arising: The Life of The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Vampires Memoir & Biographies Malcolm X Cromwell, #3) by Les & Tamara Payne by Grady Hendrix Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford by Hilary Mantel The Only Good Indian Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir Untamed by Glennon Doyle by Natasha Trethewey by Stephen Graham Jones Nobody Will Tell You This But Me The Undocumented Americans Mystery & Thrillers If It Bleeds by Stephen King by Bess Kalb by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben A Promised Land by Barack Obama When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Mystery & Thrillers The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life The Searchers by Tana French by Alex Trebek Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty POETRY Long Bright River by Liz Moore The Guest List by Lucy Foley Dearly: New Poems by Margaret Atwood All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Science & Technology Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass Armand Gamache Series) Home Before Dark by Riley Sager The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science by Lana Del Rey by Louise Penny The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Break Your Glass Slippers (You Are Your Romance Health, and Happiness Own Fairy Tale, #1) Romance Party of Two (The Wedding Date Series) by Emily Anthes by Amanda Lovelace From Blood and Ash A Life on Our Planet: My Witness by Jasmine Guillory by Jennifer L. Armentrout Statement and a Vision for the Future GRAPHIC NOVELS Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow by David Attenborough Writers & Lovers by Lily King Beach Read by Emily Henry The Body (2019) by Bill Bryson Fangs by Sarah Andersen Chasing Cassandra (The Ravenels Series) In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller Solutions and Other Problems by Lisa Kleypas Sci-fi The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Allie Brosh If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane by Rebecca Skloot Stranger Planet (Strange Planet #2) The Midnight Library by Matt Haig by Nathan W. Pyle Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2) The Loneliness of the Long-Distance by Tamsyn Muir Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini Network Effect by Martha Wells CRITIC'S CHOICE.
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