MPPL Staff Favorites of 2018

Take a moment to reflect: what did you love this year?

As 2018 is drawing to a close, MPPL staff took time to look back on everything they watched, read, listened to, and played throughout the year in order to choose some of their top favorites. With 32 staff members sharing, you’re bound to find plenty to add to your own reading, listening, and watching lists!

Book: Theft by Finding
by David Sedaris
Book: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
by Michelle McNamara
Book: Peter and Ernesto
by Graham Annable

Book: The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Book: Moxie
by Jennifer Mathieu
Book: Leah on the Offbeat
by Becky Albertalli

Book: The Girl Who Smiled Beads 
by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
Book: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 
by Anthony Ray Hinton

Audiobook: Baby Teeth
by Zoje Stage
Graphic Novel: Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins
by Jeff Lemire
DVD: Legion: Season 1

Book: Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Book: Educated
by Tara Westover
Book: The Hating Game
by Sally Thorne

Book: Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of A Latin Queen
by Reymundo Sanchez and Sonia Rodriguez
DVD: Acrimony
Book: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman

Book: The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
Book: The Feather Thief
by Kirk Johnson
Book: Astral Weeks
by Ryan H. Walsh

Book: The One-in-a-Million Boy
by Monica Wood
DVD: Tulip Fever
Audiobook: Lily and the Octopus
by Steven Rowley

Book: Into the Drowning Deep
by Mira Grant
DVD: Love, Simon
Book: Jane, Unlimited
by Kristin Cashore

Book: Mortal Engines
by Philip Reeve
DVD: Incredibles 2
Book: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
by Dr. Seuss

Book: The Necronomicon
by H.P. Lovecraft
Book: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
by Eric H. Cline
Book: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 
by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Book: The Woman in the Window
by A. J. Finn
Book: Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
by Bianca Marais
Book: The Fallen
by David Baldacci

Book: How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?
by N.K. Jemisin
Graphic Novel: My Boyfriend Is a Bear
by Pamela Ribon
DVD: Eighth Grade

Book: All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
Book: The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
by Andrea Pitzer
Book: The Trial
by Franz Kafka

Book: Front Desk 
by Kelly Yang
Book: One of Us Is Lying
by Karen M. McManus
Book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Audiobook: We’re Going to Need More Wine
by Gabrielle Union
DVD: Lark Rise to Candleford: The Complete Season One
DVD: Kapoor and Sons

Book: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Audiobook: If We Were Villains
by M. L. Rio
Book: One Day in December
by Josie Silver

Book: Walk Until Sunrise
by J. J. Maze
Book: A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Book: A Man Called Ove 
by Fredrik Backman

DVD: Leave No Trace
Graphic Novel: Berlin
by Jason Lutes
DVD: The Americans: The Complete Final Season

Book: I Am Princess X
by Cherie Priest
CD: Reputation
by Taylor Swift
Book: Haunted Ground
by Erin Hart

Book: Becoming
by Michelle Obama
Audiobook: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
Book: Tin Man
by Sarah Winman

Audiobook: The Second Mrs. Hockaday
by Susan Rivers
Book: Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Book: Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik

Book: Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
Book: The Copenhagen Affair
by Amulya Malladi
Book: Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman

Book: Senlin Ascends 
by Josiah Bancroft
Book: Into the Drowning Deep 
by Mira Grant
Book: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 
by Stuart Turton

Book: At Home: A Short History of a Private Life
by Bill Bryson
Book: Melmoth
by Sarah Perry
Book: The Mothers
by Brit Bennett

Graphic Novel: The Black Hammer: Vol. 1, Secret Origins
by Jeff Lemire
Graphic Novel: Hot Dog Taste Test  
by Lisa Hanawalt
Graphic Novel: Royal City: Vol 1, Next of Kin
by Jeff Lemire

DVD: Wyeth: The Life of Andrew Wyeth in Bold Strokes
Book: In the Midst of Winter
by Isabel Allende
Book: Identicals
by Elin Hilderbrand

Book: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine 
by Gail Honeyman
Book: Hillbilly Elegy 
by J. D. Vance
Book: Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf

Book: The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Book: Circe
by Madeline Miller
Book: The Raven Cycle Series
by Maggie Stiefvater

DVD: Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series
Book: Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
DVD: Fahrenheit 451

Book: We Sold Our Souls
by Grady Hendrix
Book: Little Heaven
by Nick Cutter
Book: The Family Plot
by Cherie Priest

Book: The Art of Gathering
by Priya Parker
Book: The Book of Joy
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Book: The Distant Marvels
by Chantel Acevedo

Want more? Take a look at what staff chose in 2014 and 2015 and 2017 as their favorites.

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