Staff recommendations, 2020 publications
Staff recommendations.
Below are book recommendations made by Crete Public Library staff members. For more information, visit the library, or search the online library catalog.
Recommendations - books published in 2020
Biography
- The Growing Season, Sarah Frey
- Henry Kissinger and American Power, Thomas Schwartz
- Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey
- Blood, Allison Moorer
- Five Days Gone, Laura Cumming
- Wild Life, Keena Roberts
- Inge’s War, Svemja O’Donnell
- Me and Patsey Kichin’ Up Dust, Loretta Lynn
- Home Work, Julie Andrews
Contemporary
- Fresh Water for Flowers, Valerie Perrin
- My Kind of People, Lisa Duffy
- The River Home, Hannah Richell
- 28 Summers, Elin Hilderbrand
- Evvie Drake Starts Over, Linda Holmes
- The Lager Queen of Minnesota, J. Ryan Stradal
- Olive, Again, Elizabeth Strout
- American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
- Barn 8, Deb Unferth
- Dear Edward, Ann Napolitano
- The Sweeney Sisters, Lian Dolan
- Tea by the Tea, Donna Hemans
- You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer
Historical
- The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel
- The Exiles, Christina Baker Kline
- Glorious Boy, Aimee Liu
- The Heirloom Garden, Viola Shipman
- The Paper Daughters of Chinatown, Heather Moore
- Cilka’s Journey, Heather Morris
- The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
- One More River to Cross, Jane Kirkpatrick
- Book of the Little Axe, Lauren Francis-Sharma
- The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi
- The Long Petal to the Sea, Isabel Allende
- Simon the Fiddler, Paulette Jiles
- Westering Women, Sandra Dallas
- Where the Lost Wander, Amy Harmon
- Yours, Jean, Lee Martin
Inspirational
- Before I called You Mine, Nicole Deese
- The Fifth Avenue Story Society, Rachel Hauck
Romance
- Dance Away With Me, Susan Phillips
- Real Men Knit, K. M. Jackson
- Love on Lexington Avenue, Lauren Layne
- Almost Just Friends, Jill Shalvis
- Beach Read, Emily Henry
Mainstream
- The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
- Have You Seen Luis Velez?, Catherine Hyde
- The End of October, Lawrence Wright
- Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
Science Fiction
- Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay
- The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
- The Notch, Tom Holland
- Oona Out of Order, Margarita Montimore
Suspense
- Blacktop Wasteland, S. A. Cosby
- Don’t Turn Around, Jessica Barry
- He Started It, Samantha Downing
- The Night Swim, Megan Goldin
- Playing Nice, J. P. Delaney
- Island of Last Resort, Mary Ellis
- The Nanny, Gilly Macmillan
- The Vanishing, Jayne Krentz
- The Better Liar, Tanen Jones
- Hide Away, Jason Pinter
- The Last Flight, Julie Clark
- The Lucky One, Lori Rader-Day
- The Playground, Jane Shemitt
- When You See Me, Lisa Gardner
- The Wife and the Widow, Christian White
- The Wives, Tarryn Fisher
- The Vanishing, Jayne Krentz
Nonfiction
- Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
- Magnolia Table, Joanna Gaines
- The Next Great Migration, Sonia Shah
- Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle For the Vote, Ellen DuBois
- The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, Hallie Rubenhold
- Disney’s Land, Richard Snow
- Great Plains Birds, Larkin Powell
- National Geographic Almanac 2020, National Geograph
- One Day, Gene Weingarten
- Running with Sherman, Christopher McDougal