Tuesday, January 11, 2011

MPL staff picks favorite reads for 2010

As we say goodbye to 2010 and usher in 2011, this seems like a good time to share with you some of Missoula Public Library staff’s favorite reads of 2010. Not all the selections were necessarily written in 2010 but may have been read by staff this year. How many have you read?

A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender

Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross

Jillian (IT)

The Dreamer, Pam Munoz Ryan

Art and Max, David Wiesner

Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende

Ape House, Sara Gruen

Into the Beautiful North, Luis Urrea

Karen (Children’s)

The Infinities, John Banville

The Gathering, Anne Enright

Descartes Loneliness, Allen Grossman

(Heather, Frenchtown Branch)

Under This Unbroken Sky, Shandi Mitchell

Tiger Moon, Penelope Lively

God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours, Regina Brett

(Christine, Reference)

Holy Water, James Othmer

(Elizabeth, Assistant Director)

Here’s Looking at Euclid, Alex Bellos

One Dog at a Time, Pen Farthing

Bookweird, Paul Glennon

(Marge, Reference)

The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids, Tom Hodgkinson

The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman

The Glamour of Grammar, Roy Peter Clark

(Molly, Reference)

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris

What I Thought I Knew, Alive Eve Cohen

Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl

(Cara, Reference)

The Good, Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, Sy Montgomery

(Lisa, Public Relations)

The Devil’s Rooming House, M. William Phelps

Fall of Giants, Ken Follett

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici: A Novel, C.W. Gortner

Daughters of Witching Hill: A Novel, Mary Sharratt

The Queen’s Lover: A Novel, Vanora Bennett

(Annie, Circulation, favorite Historical Fiction)

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