Seattle Staff Faves 2020: Adult Fiction & NonfictionLike this list

72 items

• False Value

  Aaronovitch, Ben, 1964-

  Add False Value to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) "Latest installment in the cheeky and compelling Rivers of London paranormal police procedural series. "--Lauren

• A Long Petal of the Sea

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel

  Add A Long Petal of the Sea to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) "A sweeping saga, told in graceful language, about two young people – an army doctor and a sheep-herder – who flee the Spanish Civil War and immigrate to Chile, where they begin new lives."--Paige

• Spirit Run

  a 6,000-mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

  Álvarez, Noé

  Add Spirit Run to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) Born in Washington State to Mexican immigrant parents, Álvarez began packing apples alongside his mother at a young age, won a full scholarship to college, then dropped out to join a Native American/First Nations movement called the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Ride Upon Sticks

  a Novel

  Barry, Quan

  Add We Ride Upon Sticks to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) Almost 300 years after the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, hosted the infamous 1692 witch trials, a new coven rises to power.--Kirkus

• Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

  Add Becoming Duchess Goldblatt to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) How does a fictional character write a real memoir? Very, very well.--Kirkus

• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit

  Add The Vanishing Half to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut, The Mothers (2016), and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line.--Kirkus

• Beyond Survival

  Strategies and Stories From the Transformative Justice Movement

  Add Beyond Survival to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) "Seattle's own Lambda Award-winning writer and organizer Piepzna-Samarasinha is co-editor of this multi-genre volume, which looks beyond the 'criminal justice system' for responses to violence and systemic inequity."--Bean

• Nature Obscura

  a City's Hidden Natural World

  Brenner, Kelly

  Add Nature Obscura to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) "A local author sheds a light on the tiny creatures living right outside your front door. Fascinating!"--Abby

• Solutions and Other Problems

  Brosh, Allie

  Add Solutions and Other Problems to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) "For the love of self care, mental health and hope, Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh, her delayed and much anticipated sequel to the popular Hyperbole and a Half of 2016. Really, her journey of self…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dirt

  Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

  Buford, Bill

  Add Dirt to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) "The New Yorker writer moves his family to France so he can learn why French cooking is the envy of the culinary world. Witty, self-deprecating and candid."--Frank

• Sword in the Stars

  Capetta, A. R.

  Add Sword in the Stars to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) "Sequel to Once and Future, this sci-fantasy retelling of the King Arthur stories dives even deeper into the mythology."--KJ

• The Library of Legends

  a Novel

  Chang, Janie

  Add The Library of Legends to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) "As Japanese bombs begin falling on China in 1937, university faculty and students set off on a long trek to carry both themselves and a rare collection of folklore and mythology books to safety."--Paige

• My Unforgotten Seattle

  Chew, Ron

  Add My Unforgotten Seattle to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) Third-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian American and social justice causes in Seattle. In this deeply personal memoir, he documents the tight-knit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dancing After TEN

  a Graphic Memoir

  Chong, Vivian

  Add Dancing After TEN to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) A prime example of the graphic medicine genre, which illustrates medical conditions, often through lived experience, this work is engaging and informative but never feels teachy or preachy.--Library Journal

• Ring Shout

  Or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times

  Clark, P. Djèlí

  Add Ring Shout to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) What if White supremacy was not only a monstrous philosophy, but was enabled by actual horrific monsters? --Kirkus

• When No One Is Watching

  a Thriller

  Cole, Alyssa

  Add When No One Is Watching to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) At the start of this outstanding thriller from Cole (A Prince on Paper), Sydney Green decides, as a distraction from her elderly mother’s illness and other personal woes, to take a walking tour of Gifford Place, her historically Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undocumented Americans

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla

  Add The Undocumented Americans to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) "Karla's heart is massive and you can see how incredibly exhausting that is to carry so much responsibility because others have failed you and your own. Her story and those that she has reached out to and helped force us to witness what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Had Me at Hola

  a Novel

  Daria, Alexis

  Add You Had Me at Hola to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) An actress on an upward career trajectory falls in love with her leading man.--Kirkus

• Untamed

  Doyle, Glennon, 1976-

  Add Untamed to your for later shelf

  (NONFICTION) Doyle offers another lucid, inspiring chronicle of female empowerment and the rewards of self-awareness and renewal.--Kirkus

• The Death of Vivek Oji

  Emezi, Akwaeke

  Add The Death of Vivek Oji to your for later shelf

  (FICTION) The author of the young adult novel Pet, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award, offers another exploration of gender identity, this time for adults.--Kirkus