The World is Falling Apart and I Just Want to Escape Into a Book
A list of reading recommendations for 2017 and beyond.
It’s me, your friendly neighborhood librarian. I know it may be rough going for the next few years, but if you don’t have the time or money to travel or move to Canada, you can still do the next best thing and pick up a book! Here’s a list of some of my favorite new and new-to-me reads from the past year. Enjoy!
Sci-fi or anything not remotely set in this universe
The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood
Ready Player One-Ernest Cline
The Rest of Us Just Live Here-Patrick Ness
Sleeping Giants-Silvain Neuvel
I need a good scare (but don’t want to turn on the news):
You Will Know Me-Megan Abbott
Broken Monsters-Lauren Beukes
Dangerous Lies-Becca Fitzpatrick
The Accident Season-Moira Fowley-Doyle
My Best Friend's Exorcism-Grady Hendrix
The Walls Around Us-Nova Ren Suma
In a Dark Dark Wood-Ruth Ware
The Woman in Cabin 10-Ruth Ware
Tinder got me like is romance dead??
All the Birds in the Sky-Charlie Jane Anders
Good on Paper-Rachel Cantor
Anything by Jandy Nelson or Emery Lord
When the Moon was Ours-Anna-Marie McLemore
Holding Up the Universe-Jennifer Niven
If I Was Your Girl-Meredith Russo
Eligible-Curtis Sittenfeld
Love & Gelato-Jenna Evans Welch
Everything, Everything-Nicola Yoon
The Sun is Also a Star-Nicola Yoon
Not my Father’s Son-Alan Cumming
A Girl Walks Into a Bar-Rachel Dratch
Scrappy Little Nobody-Anna Kendrick
You'll Grow Out of It-Jessi Klein
I’m Just a Person-Tig Notaro
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo-Amy Schumer
Where Am I Now?-Mara Wilson
I can’t even with books that don’t have pictures
Black Panther-Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Wicked+The Divine-Kieron Gillen
Friends with Boys-Faith Erin Hicks
Locke & Key-Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Paper Girls-Brian K. Vaughan
Ms. Marvel-G. Willow Wilson
I need a “real book” for my book club
Alice & Oliver-Charles Bock
How to Set a Fire and Why-Jesse Ball
Sweetbitter-Stephanie Danler
Here I Am-Jonathan Safran Foer
The Nightingale-Kristin Hannah
The Marriage of Opposites-Alice Hoffman
Underground Airlines-Ben H. Winters
Another Brooklyn-Jacqueline Woodson
A Little Life-Hanya Yanagihara