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!

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

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

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

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

by Reymundo Sanchez and Sonia Rodriguez
DVD: Acrimony
Book: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman

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

by Monica Wood
DVD: Tulip Fever
Audiobook: Lily and the Octopus
by Steven Rowley

by Mira Grant
DVD: Love, Simon
Book: Jane, Unlimited
by Kristin Cashore

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

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

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

by N.K. Jemisin
Graphic Novel: My Boyfriend Is a Bear
by Pamela Ribon
DVD: Eighth Grade

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

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

by Gabrielle Union
DVD: Lark Rise to Candleford: The Complete Season One
DVD: Kapoor and Sons

by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Audiobook: If We Were Villains
by M. L. Rio
Book: One Day in December
by Josie Silver

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

Graphic Novel: Berlin
by Jason Lutes
DVD: The Americans: The Complete Final Season

by Cherie Priest
CD: Reputation
by Taylor Swift
Book: Haunted Ground
by Erin Hart

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

by Susan Rivers
Book: Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Book: Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik

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

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

by Bill Bryson
Book: Melmoth
by Sarah Perry
Book: The Mothers
by Brit Bennett

by Jeff Lemire
Graphic Novel: Hot Dog Taste Test
by Lisa Hanawalt
Graphic Novel: Royal City: Vol 1, Next of Kin
by Jeff Lemire

Book: In the Midst of Winter
by Isabel Allende
Book: Identicals
by Elin Hilderbrand

by Gail Honeyman
Book: Hillbilly Elegy
by J. D. Vance
Book: Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf

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

by Grady Hendrix
Book: Little Heaven
by Nick Cutter
Book: The Family Plot
by Cherie Priest

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 2017 as their favorites.
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