The Point with Mindy Todd … the books we loved best that we read in 2014.
This morning on The Point with Mindy Todd, Mindy, Jill Erickson, Head of Reference & Adult Services at FPL, and Sara Hines of Eight Cousins Books talked about the books they most loved reading in 2014. Thanks for all the listener choices as well! If you have a book you loved this year, send us an email at info@falmouthpubliclibrary.org and we’ll add it to our list. Miss the show? You can listen online at capeandislands.org.
Mindy’s Picks
To Be a Friend is Fatal: the fight to save the Iraqis America left behind by Kirk W. Johnson
On Pluto: inside the mind of Alzheimer’s by Greg O’Brien
War of the Whales: a true story by Joshua Horowitz
The Long Haul: the future of New England’s fisheries by the staff of WCAI public radio
Jill’s Picks
Plum(b) by Kim Triedman
Permissionby Katie Peterson
The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Art of Asking or how I learned to stop worrying and let people help by Amanda Palmer
Letters of Note: an eclectic collection of correspondence deserving of a wider audience compiled by Shaun Usher
My Favorite Things by Maira Kalman
Sara’s Picks
Compulsion by Martina Boone
Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Levy
The Great Greene Heist: saving the school, one con at a time by Varian Johnson
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens by Danah Boyd
Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee
Listener Picks
Love’s Attraction by David Adams Cleveland
Falling Out of Time by David Grossman
How About Never … Is Never Good for You?: my life in cartoons By Bob Mankoff
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Lock In by John Scazi