Salem Public Library

585 Liberty St. SE

Salem, OR

503-588-6052

www.salemlibrary.org

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Patron & Staff Favorites

Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood

Dodgers by William Beverly

Moonglow by Michael Chabon

Chicago by Brian Doyle

All the Winters After by Seré Prince Halverson

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

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Mystery Downfall by J.A. Jance

King Maybe by Timothy Hallinan

A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

The Second Girl by David Swinson

Critics’ Choices

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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi

White Trash: the 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Autobiography/Memoir Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

History Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexsievich

The firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship by Patricia Bell-Scott

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick

Critics’ Choices

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Nix by Nathan Hill

The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

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Young Adult Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Historical Fiction News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Barkskins by Annie Proulx

Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

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Fantasy The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

Historical Fiction To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

The Castle of Kings by Oliver Pötzsch

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Horror The Fireman by Joe Hill

End of Watch by Stephen King

Science Fiction

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

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Patron & Staff Favorites

Young Adult The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters

Suspense/Thriller Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh

The Black Widow by Daniel Silva

Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Romance It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Patron & Staff Favorites

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town...and the World by Jan Louch

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes, and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin

Autobiography/Memoir Delta Lady by Rita Coolidge

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of A Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Learning by Jennifer Weiner