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Adult Services Staff Picks Favorite Books Of 2020 |
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The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel
Recommended by: Zena
The award-winning author of Station Eleven presents a tale of crisis and survival in the hidden landscapes of homeless campgrounds, luxury hotels, private clubs and federal prisons, where a massive Ponzi scheme is tied to a woman’s disappearance at sea.
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The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline
Recommended by: Rachel
Sent to a Tasmanian penal colony after conceiving her employer’s grandchild, a young governess befriends a talented midwife and an orphaned Aboriginal chief’s daughter while confronting the harsh realities of British colonialism and oppression in 19th-century Australia.
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All The Devils Are Here
by Louise Penny
Recommended by: Cathy
Horrified when his billionaire godfather is targeted in a near-fatal accident, Chief Inspector Gamache follows clues deep within the Paris Archives to uncover gruesome, decades-old secrets.
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Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
Recommended by: Laura
A policewoman races to find her missing sister, a homeless addict, amid a vicious killing spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood, in a story that alternates between the investigation and memories of their shared childhood.
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The Deep
by Alma Katsu
Recommended by: Brandee
A more traditional ghost story that blends the supernatural with the historical. I was fascinated by this version of the sinking of the Titanic and the fate of its sister ship, the Britannic. It's clear the author did a lot of research for the dual timelines involving Annie Hebbley, a survivor of the Titanic, that allow the story to slowly unfurl. Atmospheric and haunting.
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American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
Recommended by: Sarah V.
Selling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Recommended by: Sarah R.
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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