Staff Picks 2024

Published on December 10, 2024

We asked Siouxland Libraries staff their favorite book they read this year. Here's what they said!

Fiction:

 The Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonThe Last Thing He Told Me by Laura DaveDungeon Crawler Carl by Matt DinnimanThe Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-AknerThe Marsh King's Daughter by Karen DionneA Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. KingfisherBy Any Other Name by Jodi PicoultCirce by Madeline MillerEveryone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin StevensonThe Ghosts of Beatrice Bird by Louisa MorganThe God of the Woods by Liz MooreThe House Across the Lake by Riley SagerHow the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel PriorJust For the Summer by Abby JimenezMidwestern Gothic by Scott ThomasSold On a Monday by Kristina McMorrisThis Could Be Us by Kennedy RyanThe Mighty Red by Louise ErdrichFunny Story by Emily HenryThe Women by Kristin HannahRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

 

Nonfiction:

What My Bones Know by Stephanie FooSociopath by Patric GagneToxic Positivity by Whitney GoodmanAppalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Demon of Unrest by Erik LarsonFirst, We Make the Beast Beautiful by Sarah WilsonHidden Potential by Adam GrantRadical Candor by Kim ScottBoom! Talking About the Sixties by Tom BrokawThat Bird Has My Wings by Jarvis Jay MastersThe Power of Ritual by Casper Ter KuilThe Wide Wide Sea by Hampton SidesThe Universe in Verse by Maria Popova

 

Teen Books:

Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-ÍyímídéFlamer by Mike CuratoHere's to Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam SilveraThe Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn TaylorDon't Look Back by Achut Deng and Keely Hutton

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