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Woodridge Public Library: The Best Books We Read in 2015

Here is a list of the best (or favorite) books the reference and readers advisory staff at the Woodridge Public Library read or listened to in 2015. Book news and reviews can be found at our blog: woodridgebooktalk.org.

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Audiobooks

Fink, Joseph and Jeffery Cranor. Welcome to Night Vale (Denise)

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Tahir, Sabaa. An Ember in the Ashes. Read by Fiona Hardingham and Steve West (Beth)

Fiction

Atkinson, Kate. A God in Ruins (Pam)

Brennan, M.L. Dark Ascension (Denise)

Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See (Brenda)

Gaiman, Neil. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Chris)

Haruf, Kent. Our Souls at Night (Brenda)

Laurenston, Shelly. The Unleashing (Denise)

Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven (Pam)

Mitchell, David. The Bone Clocks (Brenda)

Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child (Chris)

Thorpe, Rufi. Dear Fang, With Love (Denise)

Tyler, Anne. A Spool of Blue Thread (Chris)

Graphic Novel

Fraction, Matt. Hawkeye Volume 3: L.A. Woman (Denise)

Mysteries

Flanders, Judith. A Murder of Magpies (Brenda)

Hart, Elsa. Jade Dragon Mountain (Brenda)

Penny, Louise. The Nature of the Beast (Pam)

Pulley, Natasha. The Watchmaker on Filigree Street (Brenda)

Science Fiction & Fantasy Butcher, Jim. Working for Bigfoot: Stories from the Dresden Files (Denise)

Gibson, William. The Peripheral (Denise)

Koch, Gini. Alien Separation (Denise)

Novik, Naomi. Uprooted (Chris)

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Aurora (Brenda)

Schwab, V.E. A Darker Shade of Magic (Chris)

Teen Fiction

Green, Sally. Half Bad (Beth)

Rowell, Rainbow. Fangirl (Denise)

Non-Fiction

Beard, Mary. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome (Chris)

Bock, Laszlo. Work Rules! (Chris) Brown, Daniel James. The Boys in the Boat (Brenda)

Buck, Rinker. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Brenda)

Chapman, Bob & Raj Sisodia. Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family (Chris)

Gawand, Atul. Being Mortal (Beth)

Grazer, Brian. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life (Chris)

Langguth, A. J. After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace (Joel)

Larson, Erik. Dead Wake (Brenda)

McCullough, David. The Wright Brothers (Brenda)

Murphy, Brian. 81 Days Below Zero (Brenda)

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