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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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2018 Favorites

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Kafka on the Shore
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
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2019 Favorites

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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
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Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
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2020 Favorites

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The Remains of the Day
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2021 Favorites

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2022 Favorites

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Crying in H Mart
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How High We Go in the Dark
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2023 Favorites

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All Quiet on the Western Front
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
Kon Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Elder Race

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2024 Favorites

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A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World
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Animals

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Running with Sherman How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-Tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America
All the Horses of Iceland
Making rounds with Oscar
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
Owls of the Eastern Ice

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Arc

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Little Gods
The Shop Before Life
This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
The Book of Koli
Fifty Words for Rain

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Molokaʻi
Pachinko: Library Edition
The Monk of Mokha
The Half-Drowned King
The Map of Salt and Stars

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Book Lovers Club

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Memoirs of a Geisha
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The Lady in Gold

The Winter People

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Books About Books

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
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Cambodia

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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Classics

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East of Eden
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A Passage to India

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Computers And Technology

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

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Did Not Finish

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The Reader
The Nightfall Duology
Fortress Besieged
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Earth Science

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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Isaac's Storm
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Fantasy

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City of Light
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The Crimson Vault
The Traveler's Gate Trilogy
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A Veil of Spears

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Fiction

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Kafka on the Shore
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The one-in-a-million boy
The Great Passage
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

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Food

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The Monk of Mokha
What She Ate
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Heat

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Historical Fiction

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The Half-Drowned King
Pachinko: Library Edition
Molokaʻi
Last Train to Istanbul
Children of Earth and Sky

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History

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Legends of the Samurai
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
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Japan

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

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Horror Thriller

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The Winter People
Seven Deadly Wonders
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Library Professional Development

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Effective Difficult Conversations
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Manga And Comics

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Blue Flag
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The Magic Fish
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Counting Backwards

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Memoir Biography

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Between the World and Me
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

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Mystery

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The Nature of the Beast
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Mythology

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Chinese Myths
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Monkey: The Journey to the West
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North Korea

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Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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The one-in-a-million boy
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A Tall, Dark Cowboy Christmas
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Science

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Station Eleven
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Short Stories

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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All the Horses of Iceland
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White Cat, Black Dog

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The Organization of Information
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The portable MLIS

Library and Information Center Management
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
Blood of Assassins
A Desert Torn Asunder
The Desert of Souls
Samurai Wisdom Stories: Tales from the Golden Age of Bushido

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)

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True Crime

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We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

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Video Games

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The Legend Of Final Fantasy VII
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
You Have Died of Dysentery: The creation of The Oregon Trail - the iconic educational game of the 1980s
Final Fantasy VII Remake: Material Ultimania

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Western

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Journal of the Gun Years
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True Grit
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you are an animal

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The Tusks of Extinction