Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty, Illustrated by David Roberts
Year Round Indoor Salad Gardening by Peter Burke
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
Ten On a Twig by Lo Cole
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr
Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem by Kate DiCamillo
Mike Bowditch Mysteries by Paul Doiron
“The highlight of my literary year was reading the entire series. Love the characters, the mystery (the ill-fated romance[s]) and, of course, the familiar Maine setting.”
Boogie Boogie, Y’all by C. G. Esperanza
Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Maphead by Ken Jennings
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
“Loved it so much that a quarter of the way into my ILL copy I had to go out and buy my own copy!”
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
“So well composed.”
The Sum of Us by Heather C. McGhee
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
The Price of Paradise by Susana López Rubio
“Could not put it down for a second. I studied abroad in Cuba and it was fun to “travel back” there through this book.”
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
“I really loved this book. Not least because my parents lived through the Depression and I couldn’t help but wonder if they knew about these giraffes and followed the story as many did during these very difficult years.”
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders 
The Book of Eels By Patrik Svensson
Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
Cutting for Stone and The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin
Frankly, in Love by David Yoon