Staff Faves 2022: 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 comments from staff, together with blurbs from the publishers. (Created November 2022)
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Honey and Spice
A young Black British woman with a popular student radio show that dishes out relationship advice finds her show and her reputation on the line after she publicly makes out with a man she publicly denounced.
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Legends & Lattes
"The cozy fantasy I didn't know I needed!" - Lauren. The much-beloved BookTok sensation from Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes is a novel of high fantasy and low stakes
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Blind Faith
For decades, the unsolved murder of Father Michael Leary has haunted Billings, Montana, the community he served, and no one more than Lindsay Keller, who admired and confided in him as a teenager. Now Lindsay finds herself in possession of the priest's wallet, the photo of a young girl tucked inside. She's sure she knows the girl, and that it's tied to his death. But how?
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Book of Night
In a world where shadows have feelings and memories and can be altered, a low-level con artist/bartender is pitted against doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves and her own sister while trying to keep out of trouble.
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Delilah Green Doesn't Care
"This is Blake's first foray into the adult rom-com genre, and she hits the ground running. Delilah Green is acidic and distant and just fun to read. The romance is both sexy and wholesome, giving laughs and tears in equal measure." - Cassandra
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Small Game
"A wild chase up to and beyond the end! A survival game show - like Alone, but fictionalized - in the very far northwoods where participants are filmed daily by a crew along with cameras in the trees. No alone time here! And no escape. The unthinkable happens! I read it in one day." - Christine
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A Prayer for the Crown-shy
"Chambers continues her Monk & Robot novellas with another deeply philosophical tale. Sibling Dex is still unsure about their future, and Mosscap has many questions that may not have answers." - Cassandra
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Disorientation
A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity.
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Saint Death's Daughter
"Sometimes you want something deliciously dark, strange, yet whimsical. Miscellaneous Stones aka Lanie comes from a family of necromancers and assassins (all of whom have the most quirky names I have come across!) and she is a necromancer who happens to be allergic to violence. That was a nice twist! When her parents are killed, and her brutal and bossy sister returns, Lanie's life just gets stranger. Delightful and so filled with life even as it dances with death. Also try Cooney's short story collection that also came out this year, Dark Breakers." - Misha
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You Made A Fool of Death With your Beauty
Learning how to feel joy while healing from loss, Feyi Adekola starts dating the perfect guy, but discovers she has feelings for someone else who is off limits and must decide just how far she is willing to go for a second chance at love.
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