Every year we ask our staff across the system for their favorite books published in a given year. Our staff are such voracious readers that we needed two parts for adult fiction this year! Enjoy this variety of fiction staff favorites, with annotations by staff members or as noted. (Created November 2024)
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Karen attends the Yippie-organized Festival of Life in Chicago, and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she wrestles with her sexual identity, and she continues to investigate her neighbor’s recent death. She discovers one last cassette tape, which sheds light on Anka’s heroic activities. (NoveList Plus)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Off the Books
Frazier debuts with the delightfully offbeat yet weighty story of a Chinese American college dropout turned limo driver and a Uyghur Muslim girl fleeing Chinese persecution. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Hunter
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. (NoveList Plus)
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The Lover of No Fixed Abode
An atmospheric classic set in Venice over the course of three days; the plot is bookended by the arrival of a plane and the departure of a ship. She is an elegant Roman signora who scouts for one of the large English auction houses. He is a fascinating, mysterious man of indeterminate age, the leader of a tour group, who seems to know every language and all secrets. But who is he really? Around them, the canals and lagoons of Venice, a city which becomes a character in the novel in its own right. (Back cover)
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Boy Island
A modern transgender fable in graphic novel form, Boy Island weaves its way along the path of becoming with humor and insight, channeled through Leo Fox's iconic art and storytelling style. (Catalog description)
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Bullet Swallower
"A philosophical Western with magical realism about a Mexican bandido in 1895 and his film star grandson in 1964, based on the author’s family history."--Paige C.
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The Love of My Afterlife
Meeting “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, who’s sent back to earth due to an error, Delphie, offered a second chance at life and love if she can find this dreamy stranger on earth in ten days, must listen to her heart to make her greatest wish come true. (NoveList Plus)
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Bride
Misery Lark, daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, must leave her life of anonymity among the humans and uphold a historic alliance with the Weres by marrying their Alpha, Lowe Moreland. (NoveList Plus)
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The Great Divide
"A sweeping saga of the building of the Panama Canal, told through the stories of the diverse laborers involved in its construction in 1907."--Paige C.
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Funny Story
After being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out. (NoveList Plus)
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