Favorite Books of the Year: Kepler’s

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KEPLER’S (MENLO PARK, CA)

Mya Ballin: Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg · Felicity, Mary Oliver · War is Beautiful, David Shields · Pansy, Andrea Gibson · Mamushka, Olia Hercules

Ron Chapman: Bright Dead Things, Ada Limon · The Sellout, Paul Beatty · The Library At Mount Char, Scott Hawkins · Nixon’s Pals, Joe Casey · Loving Day, Mat Johnson

Nicole Hughes: The Book of Aron, Jim Shepard · The Visiting Privilege, Joy Williams · The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, Vendela Vida · Into the Valley, Ruth Galm · Welcome to Braggsville, T. Geronimo Johnson

Kiersten Acker: The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin · Archivist Wasp, Nicole Kornher-Stace · Uprooted, Naomi Novik · George, Alex Gino · The Anatomy of Curiosity, Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater, & Brenna Yovanoff

Cressida Hanson: Goodbye Stranger, Rebecca Stead · Dumplin’, Julie Murphy · Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon · Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Jill Leovy · Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson

Marilyn Smith: Red Notice, Bill Browder · Last Bus To Wisdom, Ivan Doig · My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry, Fredrik Backman · The Tsar Of Love and Techno: Stories, Anthony Marra · The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion, Wendy Williams

Molly Harbage: In the Country: Stories, Mia Alvar · The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins · The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson · Bone Gap, Laura Ruby · Barbara the Slut and Other People, Lauren Holmes

Leigh Atkins: Women in Public, Elaine Kahn · The Hand That Feeds You, A.J. Hempel · You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman · Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff · That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, David Shields and Samantha Matthews

Caitlin Jordan: Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – and the World, Rachel Swaby · The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua · Find Me, Laura van den Berg · Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff · Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins

Becca Shipper: Dewey Bob, Judy Schachner · I am Princess X, Cherie Priest · Darkest Part of the Forest, Holly Black · Space Dumplins, Craig Thompson · Pain: The Board Game, Sampson Starkweather

Michael Reinken: Carry On, Rainbow Rowell · The Japanese Lover, Isabel Allende · The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, Vendela Vida · The Tsar of Love and Techno, Anthony Marra · Fortune Smiles, Adam Johnson

Julie Moncton: Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates · Master Plan for Rescue, Janis Cooke Newman · A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson · Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff · Golden Son, Pierce Brown

Nancy Salmon: A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara · Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf · The Gates of Evangeline, Hester Young · The Japanese Lover, Isabel Allende · Circling the Sun, Paula McLain

Amanda Hall: Kitchens of the Great Midwest, J. Ryan · The Gates of Evangeline, Hester Young · How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims · The Admissions, Meg Mitchell Stewart · Girl Waits with Gun, Amy Stewart

Angela Mann: The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin · Mislaid, Nell Zink · Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff · The Book of Aron, Jim Shepard · Bone Gap, Laura Ruby

Pamela Andersen: Strictly No Elephants, Lisa Mantchev · Thor, Vol. 1: The Goddess of Thunder, Jason Aaron · Ink and Bone, Rachel Caine · A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas · Rebel Queen, Michelle Moran

Sina Herkelrath: Hours Count, Jillian Cantor · Girl from the Garden, Parnaz Foroutan · Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf

Praveen Madan: The New Prophets of Capital, Nicole Aschoff · Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies, César A. Hidalgo · Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari · Lead More Control Less, Marvin R. Weisbord and Sandra Janoff · Negroland: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson