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January 3, 2024 | Our Favorite Books of 2023

1/3/2024

 
​In our first Staff Book Reviews post of 2024, we're  looking back at our favorite reads of 2023! Any books that we have reviewed will include links to the review posts.

Since we all read so many great books last year, we again have a list of honorable mentions at the end!

All books are available in print either from EPLD or through interlibrary loan, some can be checked out in large print, and many can be found as ebooks or audiobooks as well - just do a quick search in RSAcat!
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The Golden Spoon

Maxwell, Jessa

2023, Atria Books

Fiction

Availability

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

Read our review.


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Finlay Donovan is Killing It

Cosimano, Elle

2021, Minotaur Books

Fiction

Availability

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

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Night Shift

Cook, Robin

2022, G.P. Putnam's Sons

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print & audiobook
eBook: Boundless
​eAudiobook: Boundless

Read our review.


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The Moth Keeper

O'Neill, K.

2023, Random House Graphic

Graphic Novel

Grades: 3 - 7; Lexile: GN710L

Availability

EPLD: print

Read our review.


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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Finkel, Michael

​2023, Alfred A. Knopf

Biography

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print
eBook: Libby 
eAudiobook: Libby

Read our review.


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On the Rooftop

Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson

2022, Ecco

Fiction

Availability

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

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Kissing Kosher

Meltzer, Jean

2023, Mira

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
eBook: Boundless, Freading, & Hoopla
eAudiobook: Hoopla

Read our review.


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Lessons in Chemistry

Garmus, Bonnie

2022, Doubleday

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print, audiobook, & Spanish edition
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby & Boundless

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Aquanaut: A Life Beneath the Surface - The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Stanton, Rick

​2022, Pegasus Books Ltd.

Nonfiction

Availability

EPLD: print
eBook: Hoopla
eAudiobook: Hoopla

Read our review.


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Nimona

Stevenson, N.D.

​2015, HarperTeen

​Graphic Novel

Grades: 8 - 11; Lexile: GN350L

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: audiobook & Spanish edition
eBook: Hoopla
​eAudiobook: Boundless & Hoopla

Read our review.


Our honorable mentions for 2023:

A Brush with Murder by Bailee Abbott; A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams; Pies and Prejudice by Ellery Adams; Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander; The Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes; Every Little Kindness by Marta Bartolj; Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry; 100 Things to do in Peoria before You Die by Molly Crusen Bishop; Survival of the Fritters by Ginger Bolton; The Diviners by Libba Bray; Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz; Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog by W. Bruce Cameron; The Hidden One by Linda Castillo; In Plain Sight by Ross Coulthart; Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar; Truly Devious series by Maureen Johnson; How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived by Leslie Jordan; Hiders Seekers Finders Keepers: How Animals Adapt in Winter by Jessica Kulekjian; Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson; Animals in Pants by Suzy Levinson; From a Far and Lovely Country by Alexander McCall Smith; Marmee: a novel by Sarah Miller; Shy Willow by Cat Min; Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry; Spare by Prince Harry; Lola and the Tree of Life by Susan Reising; Sister Roar: Claim Your Authentic Voice, Embrace Real Freedom, and Discover True Sisterhood by Kay Robertson; A Christmas Candy Killing by Christina Romeril; A Parliament of Owls by Devin Scillian; Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline; The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear.

​Happy New Year! We'll have new book reviews up two weeks from today!

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