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Each year Amazon releases its list of the Best Books and this year was no exception. Roesch Library's Leisure Reading Collection has the following books from that list:

4. The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peace -- Jeff Hobbs
5. Redeployment -- Phil Klay
6. Revival -- Stephen King
9. Big Little Lies -- Liane Moriarty
10. Station Eleven -- Emily St. John Mandel
14. The Bone Clocks -- David Mitchell
15. The Laughing Monsters -- Denis Johnson
18. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions -- Randall Munroe (on order)
19. We Were Liars -- E. Lockhart
21. The Invention of Wings -- Sue Monk Kidd
26. Leaving Time -- Jodi Picoult
27. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA& the US Surveillance State -- Glenn Greenwald
31. Hollow City -- Ransom Riggs
36. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses & Geeks Created the Digital Revolution -- Walter Isaacson
41. Lucky Us -- Amy Bloom
42. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" -- Lena Dunham
51. The Magician's Land -- Lev Grossman
56. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales -- Margaret Atwood
62. Landline -- Rainbow Rowell
65. Yes Please -- Amy Poehler
67. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki & His Years of Pilgrimage -- Haruki Murakami
70. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant: A Memoir -- Roz Chast
73. The Martian -- Andy Weir
74. Natchez Burning -- Greg Iles
82. Seconds -- Bryan Lee O'Malley
87. Lila -- Marilynne Robinson
90. Belzhar -- Meg Wolitzer (on order)

What did you read? What did you miss?

Come check out the whole collection on the first floor of Roesch Library!

-Scott West, Information Resources Assistant