2012 Staff Picks


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BRYANT LIBRARY 2012 STAFF PICKS

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POPULAR FICTION

29 by Adena Halpern 

44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel

A Day at the Beach by Helen Schulman

The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth

Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

Bond Girl by Erin Duffy

The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

By Order of the President (Presidential Agent Series) by W.E.B Griffin

Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts

The Darlings by Cristina Alger

Escape by Barbara Delinsky

Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross

The Fear Index by Robert Harris

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

French Lessons by Ellen Sussman

The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen

Home Front by Kristin Hannah

The Hostage (Presidential Agent Series) by W.E.B. Griffin

How It All Began by Penelope Lively

I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

The Innocent by David Baldacci

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Lion by Nelson DeMille

The Litigators by John Grisham

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy

Moon Shell Beach by Nancy Thayer

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani

The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

The Technologists by Matthew Pearl

Temptation by Douglas Kennedy

Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner

This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman

To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal

Turn of Mind by Alice La Plante

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

Zero Day by David Baldacci

 

LITERARY FICTION

American Boy by Larry Watson

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Bleak House by Charles Dickens 

Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Carry the One by Carol Anshaw 

Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James 

The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey 

The Group by Mary McCarthy

Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks 

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 

Nana by Emile Zola 

Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan 

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 

Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman 

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 

A Small Hotel by Robert Olen Butler 

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon 

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst 

The Submission by Amy Waldman 

Tabloid City by Pete Hamill 

The Thin Red Line by James Jones 

The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan 

Untold Story by Monica Ali 

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander

The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar 

 

MYSTERY/THRILLER

The Affair by Lee Child 

10th Anniversary by James Patterson

Bel-Air Dead by Stuart Woods 

Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs Series) by Jacqueline Winspear 

Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder 

Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward

D.C. Dead by Stuart Woods 

Devil’s Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

The Expats by Chris Pavone 

Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson

Live Wire by Harlan Coben 

Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs Series) by Jacqueline Winspear 

Now You See Her by James Patterson

Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva 

Sister by Rosamund Lupton 

Son of Stone by Stuart Woods 

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia De Luce Series) by Alan Bradley 

The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag (Flavia De Luce Series) by Alan Bradley 

 

HISTORICAL FICTION 

11/22/63 by Stephen King

22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson

A Good American by Alex George

It Happened One Autumn (Wallflower Series) by Lisa Kleypas 

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Last Nude by Ellis Avery

The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

Next to Love by Ellen Feldman

The O’Brien’s by Peter Behrens

Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflower Series) by Lisa Kleypas

The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen

White Truffles in Winter by N. M. Kelby

 

BIOGRAPHY 

Ali in Wonderland by Ali Wentworth

Are You My Mother?  by Alison Bechdel

Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

Dear Cary by Dyan Cannon

The Flower of God by Herbert Ausubel

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Then Again by Diane Keaton

Wendy and the Lost Boys by Julie Salamon

 

N0N-FICTION 

The End of Illness by David Agus

The Greater Journey by David McCullough

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor

Lost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff

The Money Class by Suze Orman

The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman