Staff Favorites

We have been asked to list 3 of our favorite books from the past three years for our library patrons. It is an interesting exercise because it is hard to just select 3 books and also because one does not want to list books that will appear on other lists.

I have kept book journals for the last 17 years. Each year, I buy a new journal and note the book, the author, the date I finished the book and a bit about the book--how much I liked it, the themes I found in the book and how successful I thought it was as art.

For this list, I am considering the following books: Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid, And She Was by Cindy Dyson, Dead I May Be, by Adrian McKinty and a book (not sure which) by Deon Meyer a South African author and The Truth of the Matter by Robb Forman Dew. The latter three books are parts of series by the authors and I thought that this might introduce other people at the library to these authors and really get some of these wonderful but older or less known books moving again.