Seattle Staff Faves 2023: Fiction
Every year we ask our staff across the system for their favorite books published in a given year. Enjoy this variety of fiction staff favorites, with annotations by staff members or as noted. (Created November 2023)
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Sorry, Bro
"To appease her Armenian mother, Nar participates in a series of events in San Francisco where, instead of meeting a mom-approved man, she meets Erebuni, a woman who gives her the courage to come out as bisexual and proudly be herself for the first time in her life." (NoveList Plus)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Of Thunder & Lightning
"Magical girl comic about two nations locked in an arms race in a post nuclear world. Except the arms are their superheroines, who only really exist for each other." --Eliza E.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Zero Days
"When a security expert is murdered, his wife will stop at nothing to find the killer—even as she becomes suspect No. 1." (Kirkus)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Family Meal
"Haunted by the ghost of Kai, the love of his life, Cam returns to his hometown of Houston where he reconnects with his former best friend, TJ, and his family's bakery and wonders if they can find a way back to being okay again." (NoveList Plus)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Crook Manifesto
"The adventures of entrepreneur, family man, and sometime fence Ray Carney, which began with Harlem Shuffle (2021), are carried from the Black Citadel's harried-but-hopeful 1960s of that book to the dismal-and-divided '70s shown here." (Kirkus)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Cleat Cute
"Attraction sizzles between lesbian soccer players with vastly different personalities." (Kirkus)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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The Fixer
"A naive activist is hired by a corporate villain but doesn't realize it. Cue one awkward farce, a twisty puzzle, and the slowest of slow burns in this opposites-attract, ice queen romance." (Publisher)
Format: eBook
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Fourth Wing
"Violet Sorrengail wanted to be a scribe rather than join her siblings as dragon riders defending Navarre's borders, but her mother, a decorated general, had other ideas. She's forced Violet to enlist as a rider cadet in the Basgiath War College, even though Violet's hypermobility—a disorder that destabilizes her joints and leaves her easily injured—puts her at a disadvantage. To make matters worse, Violet has been assigned to the Fourth Wing, led by Xaden Riorson, the son of a rebel leader whom her mother executed." (Library Journal)
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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Iron Flame
"After surviving her first year at Basgiath War College, dragon rider Violet Sorrengail discovers that the real danger is just beginning." (NoveList Plus)
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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