Here are my favorite new (to me) books for the year.

Fiction:

• Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip
• How to Knit a Love Song by Rachel Herron
• ENCHANTED GLASS by Diana Wynne Jones
• MOUSE AND DRAGON by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
• SALTATION by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
• THIRTEENTH CHILD by Patricia C. Wrede
• WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead
• TWELVE ROOMS WITH A VIEW by Theresa Rebeck.
• IT’S A BOOK by Lane Snider (Yes, a kid’s picture book, because it’s THAT good)
• I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class Presidentby Josh Lieb.
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa.
• Sing Them Home: A Novel by Stephanie Kallos.
• Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn.
• Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King.

Non-Fiction

• Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo
• Dreadnaught by Robert Massie
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
• Paris to the Moon by Adam  Gopnick
• EIFFEL’S TOWER by Jill Jones
• SINGLED OUT by Virginia Nicholson.
• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 by G.J. Meyer.
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Lifeby Donald Miller
• 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman.

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