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KPL Staff Picks

What We Read and Enjoyed in 2007

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

Mitch Albom	For One More Day
Susan Wittig Albert	The Tale of Hilltop Farm
Sandi Ault	Wild Indigo
Jo Bannister	Requiem for a Dealer
Suzanne Berne	The Ghost at the Table
Chris Bohjalian	The Double Bind
Harlan Coben	The Woods
Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone
Vicki Delaney	In the Shadow of the Glacier
Sarah Dunant	The Birth of Venus: Love and Death in Florence
Leif Enger	Peace Like a River
Kim Edwards	The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Joshua Ferris	Then We Came to the End
Kate Flora	Playing God
Philippa Gregory	The Virgin's Lover The Other Boleyn Girl
Andrew Gross	BlueZone
Sara Gruen	Water for Elephants
Lyn Hamilton	The Orkney Scroll
Carolyn Haines	Fever Moon
Lawrence Hill	The Book of Negroes
Nancy Horan	Loving Frank
Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns
Janice Kulyk Keefer	The Ladies' Lending Library
Yasmina Khadra	The Attack
Jane Kirkpatrick	A Tendering in the Storm
Wally Lamb	I Know This Much is True
Lori Lansens	The Girls
Cormac McCarthy	The Road
Ami McKay	The Birth House
Ian MacEwan	Atonement
Yann Martel	The Life of Pi
Kate Mosse	Labyrinth
Carol O'Connell	Find Me
Heather O'Neill	Lullabies for Little Criminals
Ridley Pearson	Killer Weekend
Louise Penny	The Cruellest Month
Thomas Perry	Silence
Jodi Picoult	Tenth Circle
M. J. Rose	The Reincarnationist
Elizabeth Ruth	Smoke
Robert J. Sawyer	Rollback
Lisa See	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Diane Setterfield	The Thirteenth Tale
Nicholas Sparks	The Choice
Richard B. Wright	October
NONFICTION
Alison Bechdel	Fun Home
Jon Krakauer	Into the Wild
John Elder Robison	Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers
Rob Sheffield	Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Jeannette Walls	The Glass Castle: a memoir
Alan Weisman	The World Without Us
TEEN FICTION
Anne-Laure Bondoux	The Killer's Tears
Martine Leavitt	Keturah and Lord Death
John Smelcer	The Trap
Stephanie Meyer	New Moon
Markus Zusak	The Book Thief