Favorite Books of the Year: Brookline Booksmith

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BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH (BROOKLINE, MA)

Kat: Illuminae, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Carl: ODY-C, Matt Fraction · Fairy Tales, Robert Walser · You, Z. Drvenkar · Paulina & Fran, Rachel Glaser · Complete Eightball, Dan Clowes

Dana: Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf · Being Mortal, Atul Gawande · Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson · On the Move, Oliver Sacks · Stir, Jessica Fechtor

Clarissa: Wake of Vultures, Lila Bowen · Uprooted, Naomi Novik · Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness · Doldrums, Nicolas Gannon · Hunter, Mercedes Lackey

Alex: The Nest, Kenneth Oppel · Nimona, Noelle Stevenson · Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli · Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman · The Strangler Vine, M.J. Carter

Jordan: Bull Mountain, Brian Panowich · Mothers Tell Your Daughters, Bonnie Jo Campbell

Peter: Bitch Planet, Vol 1: Extraordinary Machine, Kelly Sue DeConnick · The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu · Slade House, David Mitchell · Time Salvager, Wesley Chu · Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie

Tim: Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders, Julianna Baggott · The Up-Down, Barry Gifford · We Were Brothers, Barry Moser · The Good Shufu, Tracy Slater

Tom: The Cartel, Don Winslow · The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson · The Coloring Book, Colin Quinn · The Whites, Harry Brandt (aka Richard Price) · Gang of Lovers, Massimo Carlotto

Russ: Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, Timothy Snyder · Complete Works of Primo Levi · Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari · Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word, Matthew Battles · Joan of Arc: A History, Helen Castor

Amy: Illuminae, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff · Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo · I Don’t Like Koala, Sean Ferrell, illustrated by Charles Santoso · Made You Up, Francesa Zappia · Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone the Illustrated Edition, JK Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay

Jon: The Betrayal, Charles Fountain · First Over There, Matthew J. Davenport · Massacre on the Merrimack, Jay Atkinson

Shuchi: Hold Still, Sally Mann · The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson · M Train, Patti Smith · Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates · H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald