FDL staff members shared their favorite reads of 2021:
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
“It’s the one that cut me the most – a brilliant, shattering account of how the Internet distorts each of our realities.” – Beth, Communications
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
“Solitary Linus Baker finds out that he doesn’t much like being alone all the time after he is sent to conduct an investigation of a mysterious orphanage full of magical children in this heartfelt, humorous story about creating a family that makes a house feel like home.” – Alice, Youth Services
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
“Addie LaRue is a tragic but beautiful story about a young women who is cursed to live forever and be forgotten” – Susie, Adult Services
Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington by Ted Widmer
“This nonfiction book rockets along like a train eating up miles of track, and looks at the stressful times right before Lincoln’s inauguration, where Southern states tried to stop the vice president from certifying the votes that elected Lincoln president.” – Sylvia, Circulation
The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
“With heavy influences from the Handmaid’s Tale, The First Sister also injects loads of political intrigue and futuristic covert space action to keep the reader enthralled.” – Jeremy, Adult Services
Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
“I thought it was a fascinating story about Belle da Costa Greene and her influence in creating the J.P. Morgan Library. It also had a very interesting back story.”- Becky, Adult Services
“Arguably a work of ‘magical realism’, this wee -sized novel ‘makes up for’ its (relative) brevity with its richly fictile, and thoroughly lyrical prose, vaguely mythological, and folkloric implications, and, of course, its raw, and uncut content, which never fails to galvanize.” – Kaelan, Circulation
Posted by Susie Rivera, Reference Specialist
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