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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By the Book
Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing after college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, still living at home, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. So when she overhears her boss complaining about an author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. All she has to do is go to the author's Santa Barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three. How hard could it be?
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A Lady for A Duke
"Regency romance where a trans woman tries to figure out her place in society and her relationship with her old best friend, a former soldier dealing with PTSD who doesn't know that the new woman in his life is someone he's known since childhood. A perfect slow burn!" - Brianne
Format: Book
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Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened to Carlotta
"Carlotta Mercedes is a trans woman released after 20 years in prison and spends her first weekend of freedom trying to reconnect with family and friends and avoid violating her parole. Funny and uninhibited with flashes of tenderness." - Frank
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Availability: All copies in use
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The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories
"A collection of short comics. All of them were so funny but also sweet. A lot more nonsensical than Hara's first book, Nori, but just as cute and fun. Also features some strange and beautiful watercolors." - Eliza
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Unlikely Animals
Emma Starling, a natural-born healer who lost her way, and her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain injury, team up to find Emma's former best friend from high school who has gone missing, setting in motion a miracle the town needs.
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Book Lovers
Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn't, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.
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Fiona and Jane
"The story of a 20 year friendship between two Taiwanese American women, explored through nonlinear vignettes. A beautiful meditation on what it means to be best friends throughout a life – intimate, funny, heartbreaking and realistic." - Jennie
Format: Book
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The Kingdom of Sand
"An older gay man in Florida faces a future alone as his best friend's health begins to fail. Not a fun read, but astutely captures the acute feeling of loneliness that afflicts so many people." - Frank
Format: Book
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Flying Solo
"A charming and easygoing look at all kinds of love and the beauty of independence, featuring supremely likable characters." - Kirkus Reviews
Format: Book
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Made in Korea
"Do androids love? Do they have a sense of self? Do they have gender? All this and more are answered in this emotional and thoughtful comic. Part thriller, part coming of age story, with a perfect ending." - Billie
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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