It is that time of the year when the world creates year-end favorite lists, so here are the books we read this year that we liked best:
Andrew:
- Language from A to Z (The Teaching Company)
- The Southern Reach Trilogy (Jeff VanderMeer)
- The Iliad (Homer)
- S. (J. J. Abrams & Doug Dorst)
Annie:
- Flora and Ulysses (Kate DiCamillo)
- Navigating Early (Clare Vanderpool)
- Rooftoppers (Katherine Rundell)
- The Dark Unwinding (Sharon Cameron)
- The World of Pooh (A. A. Milne/Ernest Shepard)
- Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White)
- Fangirl (Rainbow Rowell)
- The Scorpio Races (Maggie Stiefvater)
- A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Philip Stead/Erin Stead)
- Journey (Aaron Becker)
Ellen:
- Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
- The Facades (Eric Lundgren)
- Mortality (Christopher Hitchens)
- Personal (Lee Child)
- The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
- The Gods of Gotham (Lyndsay Faye)
- The Light Between Oceans (M. L. Stedman)
- The Heir (Grace Burrowes)
- Mistress of the Art of Death (Ariana Franklin)
- Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)
Gina:
- A Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki)
- The Last Policeman (Ben Winters)
- Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor (Lynda Barry)
- Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway (Sara Gran)
- Dragons Love Tacos (Adam Rubin/Daniel Salmieri)
Hilary:
- Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure (David Rosenfelt)
- Jim Henson: The Biography (Brian Jay Jones)
- Throne of Glass (Sarah J. Maas)
- Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares (David Levithan and Rachel Cohn)
- Dangerous (Shannon Hale)
- Mangle Street Murders (M. R. C. Kasasian)
- Girl of Fire and Thorns (Rae Carson)
- The Spellman Files (Lisa Lutz)
- Dear Committee Members (Julie Schumacher)
- The Falconer (Elizabeth May)
Karen:
- One Big Pair of Underwear (Laura GehlTom Lichtenheld)
- Fiona’s Lace (Patricia Polacco)
- Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas (Natasha Yim/Grace Zong)
- Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (Jon Scieszka/Brian Biggs)
- The Boundless (Kenneth Oppel)
- The Fourteenth Goldfish (Jennifer Holm)
Kathryn:
- HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton (Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes)
- A Fighting Chance (Elizabeth Warren)
- The Outcast Dead (Elly Griffiths)
- The Late Scholar (Jill Paton Walsh)
- The White Magic Five and Dime (Steve Hockensmith)
- Death on the Agenda (Patricia Moyes)
- Smallbone Deceased (Michael Gilbert)
Lindsay:
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Emily M. Danforth)
- Princeless, Book One: Save Yourself (Jeremy Whitley/M. Goodwin)
- Cleveland (Harvey Pekar/Joseph Remnant)
- The Saga series (Brian K. Vaughan/Fiona Staples)
- Ant Colony (Michael DeForge)
- The Round House (Louise Erdrich)
- The Shadow Hero (Gene Luen Yang/Sonny Liew)
- The Girl in the Road (Monica Byrne)
- Bloodchild and Other Stories (Octavia Butler)
- Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor (Lynda Barry)
Mike:
- Mr. Mercedes (Stephen King)
- The Martian (Andy Weir)
- Fuzzy Nation (John Scalzi)
- Festival of Death (Jonathan Morris)
- Lesser Evil (Robert Simpson)
- The Princess and the Pig (Jonathan Emmett)
- London Bridges (James Patterson)
- Toot (Leslie Patricelli)
Susan:
- Artifice (Alex Woolfson/Winona Nelson)
- David Bowie Is (Victoria Broakes and Geoffrey Marsh)
- Dancing with Myself (Billy Idol)
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Isabel Wilkerson)
Vicki:
- All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
- Tenth of December: Stories (George Saunders)
- The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
- Switch: How to Change Things When Chnage Is Hard (Chip Heath and Dan Heath)
- The Circle (Dave Eggers)
- Doctor Sleep (Stephen King)
- Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (Dave Eggers)
- Someone (Alice McDermott)
- Subtle Bodies (Norman Rush)
- When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Gail Collins)