Seattle Staff Faves 2021: Fiction
Every year we ask our staff across the system for their favorite books published in a given year. Enjoy these fiction staff favorites, some with staff annotations, and others with annotations from Kirkus, unless otherwise noted. (Created November 2021)
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Klara and the Sun
"Quietly moving, and very thought-provoking!"--Paige
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Under the Whispering Door
"After he dies, a curious and powerful being gives Wallace one week to cross over to the land of the dead, and Wallace, who finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life, sets about living a lifetime in seven days." (NoveList)
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Never Saw Me Coming
"This thriller kept me up late reading! Seven psychopaths attend university in Washington, DC, simultaneously undergraduates and participants in a research study on psychopathy. When two of them are murdered, freshman Chloe teams up with two others to find the culprit."--Andrea
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Stone Fruit
"Queer couple Ray and Bron spend their weekly hangouts with Ray's six-year-old niece Nessie running carefree through the woods and singing nonsense songs with abandon." (Library Journal)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Future Feeling
"A trans man armed with the power of self-reflection embarks on a hero’s journey." (Kirkus)
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Arsenic and Adobo
"Helping out in her Illinois family’s Filipino restaurant backfires when a young woman is accused of the murder of a restaurant reviewer who happens to be her ex-boyfriend." (Kirkus)
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The Jigsaw Man
"Two years after catching a serial killer who dismembered his victims, London DCI Anjelica Henley is faced with a gruesome copycat. An edge-of-your-seat mystery great for fans of gritty police procedurals."--Andrea
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Across the Green Grass Fields
"Regan passes through a mysterious doorway before finding herself in a fantastical world of magical equines who expect humans to step up as heroes." (NoveList)
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Angel of the Overpass
"The impeccable third Ghost Roads urban fantasy (after The Girl in the Green Silk Gown) explores and expands on McGuire’s modern-day mythology, brilliantly marrying old traditions and more recent urban legends to create an enthralling tapestry of highway hauntings and hard-traveling horrors." (Publishers Weekly)
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"The latest in the InCryptid series more than makes up for the cliff-hanger ending of 2020’s Imaginary Numbers: Sarah, having beaten the math that was going to destroy our world, now has to face the consequences." (BookList)
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