Our favorite reads this year from the Adult and Children/Tweens/Teens Librarians:

Behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo

We've got a job: the 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson

The righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt

Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain

Paris: a love story: a memoir by Kati Marton

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens ; foreword by Graydon Carter ; afterword by Carol Blue

Hitlerland: American eyewitnesses to the Nazis rise to power by Andrew Nagorski

Tim Gunn's fashion bible: the fascinating history of everything in your closet by Tim Gunn, with Ada Calhoun

Double cross: the true story of the D-day spies by Ben Macintyre

The beauty and the sorrow: an intimate history of the First World War by Peter Englund ; translated by Peter Graves

Does this church make me look fat? [sound recording] by Rhoda Janzen