Staff Picks

 

What We Read and Enjoyed in 2011

 

Our staff are great readers. We invite you to share and explore some of our favourite reads.

 

As you browse this list, you will quickly discover that we read widely in all genres and areas of the diverse KPL collections. You will also discover that like all readers we too discover new authors and hidden, previously unexplored treasures, and so not all of the titles on this list are recent releases, just titles that we wanted to share with you; enjoy!

 

 

FICTION  |  NON-FICTION  |  TEEN FICTION

 

 

 

 

Fiction Picks

 

(*** denotes popular pick)

 

Started Early, Took My Dog

by Kate Atkinson

The Accident

by Linwood Barclay ***

The Jefferson Key

by Steve Berry

Jamrach's Menagerie

by Carol Birch

Blue Heaven

by C J Box ***

The Language of Sand

by Ellen Block

You Believers

by Jane Bradley

Caleb's Crossing

by Geraldine Brooks

Fated

by S. G. Browne

The Midwife's Confession

by Diane Chamberlain

The Affair

by Lee Child

The Fifth Witness

by Michael Connelly

Fifth Business

by Robertson Davies

While My Sister Sleeps

by Barbara Delinsky

A Secret Kept

by Tatiana de Rosnay

The Sisters Brothers

by Patrick deWitt ***

Big Girl Small

by Rachel DeWoskin

Apocalypse for Beginners

by Nicolas Dickner

The Language of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh ***

The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn

by Sean Dixon

The Wild Rose

by Jennifer Donnelly

Perfect Chemistry

by Simone Elkeles

The Forgotten Waltz

by Anne Enright

Heartburn

by Nora Ephron

Close Your Eyes

by Amanda Eyre Ward

Fall of Giants

by Ken Follett

World Without End

by Ken Follett

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

Left Neglected

by Lisa Genova ***

Body Double

by Tess Gerritsen

The House at Sea's End

by Elly Griffiths

The Black Cat

by Martha Grimes

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

North River

by Pete Hamill

Winter Garden

by Kristin Hannah

A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah Harkness ***

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a scandal

by Zoë Heller

Learning to Swim

by Sara Henry

The Woman in Black

by Susan Hill

The Reinvention of Love

by Helen Humphreys

Requiem

by Frances Itani

Rose in a Storm

by Jon Katz

Under Heaven

by Guy Gavriel Kay

An Amish Christmas

by Cynthia Keller

11 / 22 / 63

by Stephen King

Our Kind of Traitor

by John Le Carré

Turn of Mind

by Alice LaPlante ***

The Paris Wife

by Paula McLain

Angel's Rest

by Emily March

Exposed

by Liza Marklund

Graveminder

by Melissa Marr

Game of Thrones

by George R. R. Martin

An Object of Beauty

by Steve Martin

Trespass

by Valerie Martin

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern ***

One Day

by David Nicholls

The Long Walk Home

by Will North

Delirium

by Lauren Oliver

The Cat's Table

by Michael Ondaatje

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

Lionheart

by Sharon Kay Penman

Bury Your Dead

by Louise Penny

A Trick of the Light

by Louise Penny ***

Chasing Fire

by Nora Roberts

Elantris

by Brandon Sanderson

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

Wonder

by Robert J. Sawyer

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A modest bestiary

by David Sedaris

The Story of Beautiful Girl

by Rachel Simon

Secret Daughter

by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

The Help

by Kathryn Stockett ***

Revenge of the Radioactive Lady

by Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Welcome to Harmony

by Jodi Thomas

Blood in the Cotswolds

by Rebecca Tope

Shut Your Eyes Tight

by John Verdon ***

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

Ragged Company

by Richard Wagamese

Red Hook Road

by Ayelet Waldman

Sweeping up Glass

by Carolyn Wall

Before I Go to Sleep

by S.J. Watson ***

Spin

by Robert Charles Wilson

Son of Stone

by Stuart Woods

 

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Non-Fiction Picks

 

 

The Social Animal

David Brooks

Night of the Gun

by David Carr

Talk Show

by Dick Cavett

William & Catherine: Their romance and Royal Wedding in photographs

by David Elliot Cohen

Arctic Autumn: A journey to season's edge

by Pete Dunne

The Art of Eating In: How I learned to stop spending and love the stove

by Cathy Erway

Bossypants

by Tina Fey

The Practical Encyclopedia of Yoga and Pilates

by Francoise Barbira Freedman

Orange Is the New Black: My year in a women's prison

by Piper Kerman

1493: Uncovering the new world Columbus created

by Charles Mann

Born in Africa: The quest for the origins of human life

by Martin Meredith

The Tudors: The complete story of England's most notorious dynasty

by G.J. Meyer

As we speak: How to make your point and have it stick

by Peter Meyers and Shann Nix

Vegan on the Cheap: Great recipes and simple strategies that save you time and money

by Robin Robertson

Holidays on Ice

by David Sedaris

Opening My Heart: A journey from nurse to patient and back again

by Tilda Shalof

Every Man in this Village Is a Liar

by Megan K. Stack

The Morville Hours

by Katherine Swift

Changing My Mind

by Margaret Trudeau

Oink: My life with mini-pigs

by Matt Whyman

Cardboard Gods

by Josh Wilker

Everybody Loves Our Town: An oral history of Grunge

by Mark Yarm

 

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Teen Fiction Picks

 

 

Beauty Queens

by Libba Bray

Me, Myself and Ike

by K.L. Denman

No and Me

by Delphine de Vigan

Gravity Brings Me Down

by Natale Ghent

Black Hole Sun

by David Macinnis Gill

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

by Lish McBride

Divergent

by Veronica Roth

The Monkeyface Chronicles

by Richard Scarsbrook

The Scorpio Races

by Maggie Stiefvater

Shatter Me

by Mafi Tahereh

Blink and Caution

by Tim Wynne-Jones

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

 

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