Best of 2013: Toronto Public Library Staff Choices #4
This is the fourth installment of our annual list of staff members' favourite books from 2013.
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Vince
Feed by Mira Grant
• eAudiobook
• eBook
Asks "what if" the world survived a zombiepocalypse, how would life go on and what would it look like? Grant also says a lot of interest in our post-Snowden world about the way governments control populations with fear. Not to be missed.
Blood Song: a Raven's Shadow Novel by Anthony Ryan
• eAudiobook
Concerns a young man raised and trained in warrior religious order set in a fantasy medieval-style land. Our hero learns the art of defending the Faith, but also learns that secrets abound in his little world. Standard subject matter for fantasy, but written and executed with greater skill than one normally sees.
Will
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
• Revised and Updated (2001)
• 3rd edition, revised and enlarged (1977)
One of the most comprehensive histories of the war, at least in the English language.
MCE
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
It's a very good mystery about a down-on-his-luck PI who investigates the apparen't suicide of a fashion model. I would never have read it if the author had not been revealed as J.K. Rowling and that would have been a shame.
EL
The Dinner by Herman Koch
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
A dinner with two brothers and their wives, one a teacher, the other more successful and running for prime minister of the Netherlands, takes on a more sinister tone as it turns out their sons may have been involved in an unforgivable crime.
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