Staff Picks for 2010

Here is the list you have been waiting for! Your favorite librarians have listed their favorite fiction and non-fiction books for 2010. Read and enjoy!

FICTION

Auster, Paul. Sunset Park

Bender, Aimee. The Particular Sadness of the Lemon Cake

Blake, Sarah. The Postmistress

Bradley, C. Alan. The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag

Chevalier, Tracy. Remarkable Creatures

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. One Amazing Thing

Donoghue, Emma. Room

Durrow, Heidi. The Girl who fell from the sky

Glass, Julia. The Widower’s Tale

King, Lily. Father of the Rain

Kostova, Elizabeth. Swan Thieves

LeCarre, John. Our kind of traitor

Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall

McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin

Norman, Howard. What is left the Daughter

Nothomb, Amelie. Hygiene and the Assassin

Ogawa, Yoko. The Housekeeper and the Professor

Rachman, Tom. The Imperfectionists

Pintoff, Stephanie. A Curtain Falls

Simonsen, Helen. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

Smith, Alexander McCall. The Charming Quirks of Others

Steinbeck, Thomas. In the Shadow of the Cypress

Turow, Scott. Innocent

Verghese, Abraham. Cutting for stone

Zambra, Alejandro. Bonsai

NONFICTION

DeWaal, Edmund. Hare with Amber Eyes; A family’s century of art and loss.

736.88 DEW

Doggett, Peter. You never give me your money 782.42166 DOG

Gunn, Deana. Cooking with all things Trader Joe’s. 641.5 GUN

Kundera, Milan. Encounter 809.04 KUN

MacIntyre, Ben. Operation Mincemeat 940.5486 MAC

Myron, Vicki. Dewey: The small town library cat who touched the world.

636.8 MYR

Oliver, Mary. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems. 811.54 Oliver

Philbrick, Nathaniel. The Last Stand 973.82 PHI

Richards, Keith. Life Biography

Scottoline, Lisa. Why my third husband will be a dog 814.54 SCO

Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Biography

Zinczenko, David. Eat this, Not that! 613.2 ZIN

------ Cook this, not that! Kitchen Survival Guide. 641.5635 ZIN