December 30, 2020 | Our Favorite Books We Read in 2020

For the last week of 2020, we're doing something a little bit different! We are looking back at our Top Ten Books of the Year, while highlighting a few of our previous reviews along the way!

Some of these books were published in 2020, but a majority of them are gems from previous years that you may have missed. All are available at EPLD, either as print/audiobooks or in digital form!

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1.

Truly Devious

Johnson, Maureen

2018, Katherine Tegen Books

Fiction

Grades: 9 - 12

Availability

EPLD: print & audiobook
ILL: Playaway
eBook: Freading & Hoopla
eAudiobook: Boundless & Hoopla

Read our review.

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2.

Flotsam

Wiesner, David

2006, Clarion Books

Fiction

Grades: Pre-K - 3

Availability

EPLD: print

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3.

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Carmon, Irin
​Knzhnik, Shana

2015, Dey St.

Biography

Grades: 9 - 12

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: audiobook
eBook: Libby, Boundless, Freading, & Hoopla (young readers' edition also available)
eAudiobook: Libby, Boundless, & Hoopla (young readers' edition also available)

Read our review.

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4.

They Both Die at the End

Silvera, Adam

2017, Harper Teen

Fiction

Grades: 9 - 12

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: Playaway
eBook: Libby, Boundless, Freading, & Hoopla
eAudiobook: Boundless & Hoopla

Read our review.

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5.

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction

Krosoczka, Jarrett

2018; Graphix

Graphic Novel

Grades: 7 - 9

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: audiobook & Playaway
eBook: Boundless & Hoopla
eAudiobook: Boundless

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6.

The House in the Cerulean Sea

Klune, T.J.

2020, Tor

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: Playaway
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby & Hoopla

Read our review.

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7.

They Called Us Enemy

Takei, George
Eisinger, ​Justin
Scott, ​Steven
Becker, ​Harmony - illustrator

2019, Top Shelf Productions

Graphic Novel

Grades: 10 - 12

Availability

EPLD: print
eBook: Libby & Hoopla ​(expanded edition & Spanish edition also available)

Read our review.

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8.

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

DeFede, Jim

2002, Regan Books

Nonfiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: audiobook
eBook: Libby & Hoopla
eAudiobook: Hoopla

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9.

All the Devils Are Here

Penny, Louise

2020, Minotaur Books

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print, audiobook, & Playaway
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Boundless & Hoopla

Read our review.

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10.

The Wife

Burke, Alafair

2018; Harper

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print, audiobook, Playaway
eBook: Boundless, Freading, & Hoopla
​eAudiobook: Boundless & Hoopla

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Other books we enjoyed this year (some of which are only available through interlibrary loan): 

I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka; Miriam by Mesu Andrews; The Camel Club by David Baldacci; The Accident by Linwood Barclay; For the Love of Mike and In Like Flynn by Rhys Bowen; Admission by Julie Buxbaum; Virgin River series by Robyn Carr; Reticence by Gail Carriger; Outsider by Linda Castillo; The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain;  In this House of Brede by Rumer Godden; Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall; Wink by Rob Harrell; 7 Days of Simplicity by Jen Hatmaker; The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins; Hoot by Carl Hiaasen; Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand; Toot & Puddle by Holly Hobbie; The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe; Sugar Crush by Dr. Richard Jacoby; Simon, the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles; The Vanishing Stair and The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson; Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler;  Twenties Girl, Can You Keep a Secret?, and I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella; Schooled by Gordon Korman; March: Book 3 by John Lewis; Liberty Brought Us Here by Susan Lindsey; Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire; Library Lover's Mystery series by Jenn McKinlay; Truevine by Beth Macy; Make Today Count by John Maxwell; Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak; Slay by Brittany Morris; Code Girls by Liza Mundy; The Thyroid Connection by Dr. Amy Myers; On Fire by John O'Leary; Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris; The Office: A Day at Dunder-Mifflin Elementary by Robb Pearlman and Melanie Demmer; Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling; One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline; Red River series (and the expanded series) by Lauraine Snelling; All the Wrong Questions series by Lemony Snicket; The Help by Kathryn Stockett; A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles; Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump; Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker; Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon; Rage by Bob Woodward; Children of the Revolution by Joanne Zienty.

Have a Happy New Year, and we'll be back with new staff book reviews on January 6, 2021!