5 Stars - Books We Adored (And Reviewed)

Adult Fiction
Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund
The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Archangel - Sharon Shinn
Beguiled - Deeanne Gist & J. Mark Bertrand
Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
Blackmoore - Julianne Donaldson
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Circe - Madeline Miller
Contact - Carl Sagan
Crossfire - Traci Hunter Abramson
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches - Alan Bradley
Death Mill Mansion - Will Hartzell-Baird
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fire and Steel, Vol. III - The Shadow Falls - Gerald N. Lund
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
The Girl You Leave Behind - Jojo Moyes
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Anne's Review)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Kari's Review)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Mindy's Review)
The Help - Kathryn Stockett (Mindy's Review)
The Help - Kathryn Stocket (Heather's Review)
The Honey Thief - Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Jovah's Angel - Sharon Shinn
The Lucky One - Nicholas Sparks
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon - Alexander McCall Smith
The Moonflower Vine - Jetta Carleton
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Nefertiti - Michelle Moran
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
The Orphan Keeper - Camron Wright
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
Room - Emma Donoghue
The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
The Shoemaker's Wife - Adriana Trigiani
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
Stepsister - Jennifer Donnelly
These is my Words - Nancy Turner
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (Mindy's Review)
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (Heather's Review)
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (Kim's Review)
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
True Grit - Charles Portis
Under the Jaguar Sun - Italo Calvino
The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
We Were the Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter

Adult Non-Fiction
Air Fryer Revolution: 100 Cripsy, Healthy, Fast & Fresh Recipes - Urvashi Pitre
American on Purpose - Craig Ferguson
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict - The Arbinger Institute
The Anatomy of Stretching - Brad Walker
Auschwitz Testimonies: 1945-1986 - Primo Levi & Leonardo de Benedetti
Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison & Montana - Jennifer Rosenkrantz & Pamela Redmond Satran
Book Love - Penny Kittle
The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
The Busy Book Series (Toddler's, Preschooler's, Children's) - Trish Kuffner
The Cost of Courage - Charles Kaiser
Date Night In - Ashley Rodriguez
Dear Mother: Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood - Bunmi Laditan
Easy Company Soldier - Don Malarky
Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover
Falling in Love with Close Reading - Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts
The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals that Protect us From Violence - Gavin De Becker
The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya
Girls Will Be Girls - JoAnn Deak, PHD
Heaven Is Here - Stephanie Nielson
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: Cloaks and Daggers - David Falconer
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: The Art of War - David Falconer
The Horse Lover - Alan Day
How They Croaked - Georgia Bragg
The In-Case-of-Emergency Workbook: An Essential Life Organizer for You and Yours - Vicki Hinze
Into the Minds of Babes - Lisa Guernsey
I Read It, But I Don't Get It - Cris Tovani
I Should Have Seen it Coming when the Rabbit Died - Teresa Bloomingdale
John Adams - David McCullough
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa into the 21st Century - Velma Maia Thomas
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
Looking Back - Lois Lowry
On Becoming Babywise - Gary Ezzo & Robert Bucknam, M.D.
One in a Million : Journey to Your Promised Land - Priscilla Shirer
Outliers : The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Raising a Gifted Child - Carol Fertig
Ravensbruck: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp - Jack G. Morrison
The Read-Aloud Handbook - Jim Trelease
The Shyness Breakthrough - Dr. Bernardo Carducci
So Sexy So Soon : The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids - Diane E. Levin, Ph.D., and Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.
Stitches : A Memoir - David Small
Store This, Not That : A Quick and Easy Food Storage Guide - Crystal Godfrey and Debbie Kent
Strong is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves - Kate T. Parker
TangleEasy Guided Journal Mandala - Quiet Fox Designs (Illus. Ben Kwok)
Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Things We Haven't Said: Sexual Assault Survivors Speak Out - Edited by Erin Moulton
Thank Forward: Gratitude Action Kit - Julie Shields & Mia Logan, Ph.D
This Much Country - Kristin Knight Pace
Thumbing Through Thoreau - Henry David Thoreau, compiled by Kenny Luck
Unbroken : A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Lauren Hillenbrand
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
Vanishing Act - Art Wolfe
Watercolor the Easy Way - Sara Berreson
We're Not Leaving : 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice, and Renewal - Benjamin J. Luft, M.D.
When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do (grades 6-12) - Kylene Beers
Your Pregnancy Week by Week (4th ed.) - Glade B. Curtis, MD & Judith Schuler, MS

Cookbooks & Food Lit
Ally's Kitchen - Alice Phillips
The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook - America's Test Kitchen
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
The Big Book of Paleo Pressure Cooking: 150 Fast-to-Fix, Super-Delicious Recipes For All Brands of Electric Pressure Cookers, Including the Instant Pot - Natalie Perry
The Big Book of Paleo Slow Cooking: 200 Recipes that Nourish and Cook Carefree, for Everyday Dinner and Weekend Feasts - Natalie Perry
Cooking with Food Storage Made Easy - Debbie G. Harman
Cooking wiht Love: Comfort Food that Hugs You - Carla Hall
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love - Kristin Kimball
Farmers' Market Desserts - Jennie Schact
French Kids Eat Everything - Karen Le Billon
In the Small Kitchen - Cara Eisenpress & Phoebe Lapine
The New Vegetarian Grill - Andrea Chesman
Perfect One-Dish Dinners - Pam Anderson
The Pickled Pantry - Andrea Chesman
The Pumpkin Lover's Cookbook - Lyuba Brook
The Roasted Vegetable - Andrea Chesman
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook - Deb Perelman

Young Adult Fiction (Including Middle Grade)
Allegiant - Veronica Roth
Archangel - Sharon Shinn
Boxers & Saints - Gene Luen Yang
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein (Kari's Review)
A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson (Mindy's Review)
A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson (Heather's Review)
Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan
Cut - Patricia McCormick
Dairy Queen - Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Divergent - Veronica Roth
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
Fire - Kristin Cashore
The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
Fuzzy Mud - Louis Sacher
Geek Girl - Cindy C. Bennett
The Girl Who Could Fly - Victoria Forester
The Girl Who Drank the Moon - Kelly Barnhill
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Gossamer - Lois Lowry
Graceling - Kristin Cashore
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Illustrated Edition - J.K. Rowling, Illus. Jim Kay
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
House of Purple Cedar - Tim Tingle
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (Heather's Review)
I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Incantation - Alice Hoffman
The Inquisitor's Tale - Adam Gidwitz
Insurgent - Veronica Roth
Jovah's Angel - Sharon Shinn
The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Nightmares! - Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller
On the Jellicoe Road - Melina Marchetta
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Refugee - Alan Gratz
The Reluctant Heiress - Eva Ibbotson
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise - Dan Gemeinhart
Rose Under Fire - Elizabeth Wein
Ruby Red - Kerstin Gier
The Running Dream - Wendelin Van Draanen
The Schwa was Here - Neal Shusterman
Son - Lois Lowry
Tennyson - Lesley M.M. Blume
Unraveled - Julie Daines
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
Wolf Hollow - Lauren Wolk

Young Adult Non-Fiction (Including Middle Grade)
The Boy on the Wooden Box - Leon Leyson
Elena Vanishing:  A Memoir - Elena and Clare B. Dunkle
Lincoln's Grave Robbers - Steve Sheinkin
Rejected Princesses : Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics - Jason Porath
Strong is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves - Kate T. Parker

Children's Fiction
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst
Alma y Como Obtuvó Su Nombre / Alma and How She Got Her Name - Juana Martinez-Neal
The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid - Dylan Thuras & Rosemary Mosco
The Best Halloween Ever - Barbara Robinson
The Biggest Sandwich Ever - Rita Golden Gelman
Bright Christmas: An Angel Remembers - Andrew Clements
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Judi Barrett
Don't Let Pigeon Drive the Bus! - Mo Willems
Don't Let Pigeon Stay Up Late! - Mo Willems
Dragons & Monsters - Matthew Reinhart & Robert Sabuda
The Emperor's New Clothes - The Starbright Foundation
Every Cowgirl Goes to School - Rebecca Janni
Every Cowgirl Loves a Rodeo - Rebecca Janni
Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse - Rebecca Janni
Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas - Jane O'Connor
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Harris and Me - Gary Paulsen
The House that Drac Built - Judy Sierra (illus. Will Hillenbrand)
I Like Myself - Karen Beaumont
If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi? - Barbara Esham
In Our Mothers' House - Patricia Polacco
Junie B. Jones (entire series) - Barbara Park
Jurassic Classics: The Prehistoric Masters of Art - Saskia Lacey
Jurassic Classics: The Presidential Masters of Prehistory - Saskia Lacey
La Princesa and the Pea - Susan Middleton-Elya and Juana Martinez-Neal (Illus.)
A Lego Christmas Ornaments Book - Chris McVeigh
Letters from Father Christmas - J.R.R. Tolkein
The Little House - Virginia Lee Burton
Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
Mockingbird - Kathryn Erskine
The Monster at the End of this Book - Jon Stone
Moon Over Manifest - Clare Vanderpool
Nick and Tesla's High Voltage Danger Lab - Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith
Nick and Tesla's Robot Army Rampage - Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith
Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle - Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith
The Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore and Mary Engelbreit
Nightmares! - Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller
Not a Box - Antoinette Portis
Odd Dog Out - Rob Biddulph
Once Upon a Fairy Tale - The Starbright Foundation
Once Upon a Time, The End (Asleep in 60 Seconds) - Geoffrey Kloske
Out of the Blue - Alison Jay
Peppe the Lamplighter - Elisa Bartone
Pigeon Wants a Puppy! - Mo Willems
The Pout-Pout Fish - Deborah Diesen
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverly Cleary
The Relatives Came - Cynthia Rylant
Remarkably You - Pat Zietlow Miller (Illus. Patrice Barton)
Rosie Revere, Engineer - Andrea Beaty (Illus. David Roberts)
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon - Patty Lovell
Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
Star Wars : A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy - Matthew Reinhart
Tennyson - Lesley M.M. Blume
Train to Somewhere - Even Bunting
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
We Don't Eat Our Classmates - Ryan T. Higgins
Wonder - RJ Palacio

Children's Non-Fiction
101 Things to Do Before You Grow Up - Creative Team of Weldon Owen
50 Things You Should Know About the First World War - Jim Eldridge
A is for Abinadi - Heidi Poelman
All Fish Faces: Photos and Fun Facts About Tropical Fish - Tam Warner Minton
The Big Book of Color: An Adventurous Journey into the Magical & Marvelous World of Color! - Walter Foster Jr.
A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination - Bryan Young
Clever Encylopedia: First Words - Cecile Jugla
Find Momo - Andrew Knapp
If You Were Me and Lived in ... India - Carole P. Roman
If You Were Me and Lived in Portugal - Carole P. Roman
Jurassic Classics: Prehistoric Masters of Art - Saskia Lacey
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History - Vashti Harrison
People - Peter Spier
The Santa Claus Book - Alden Perkes
So You Want to be President? - Judith St. George