This is the continuation of the Top 5 Picks of 2015.
Susan’s Top 5:
The Art of Hearing Hearbeats by Jan-Philip Sendker
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Cyndi’s Top 5:
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Jackaby by William Ritter
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Rook by Sharon Cameron
Helen’s Top 5:
Crossbones by John L. Campbell
The Harvest Man by Alex Grecian
Werewolf Cop by Andrew Klavan
Blood Infernal by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell
The Dead Play On by Heather Graham
Jennifer’s Top 5: (I was an English major, so I have a little trouble with numbers…)
The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
And then there’s Dave’s Top 5: (Dave goes above and beyond!)
Dave’s Top 5 TV Series:
River starring Stellan Skarsgaard and Nicola Walker (This is a Netflix original and not in the Minerva system.)
Transparent starring Jeffrey Tambor (This is an amazon original and not in the Minerva system.)
Grace & Frankie starring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda (This is a Netflix original and not in the Minerva system.)
Happy Valley starring Sarah Lancashire
Blacklist starring James Spader
Dave’s Top 5 Movies:
The Martian starring Matt Damon
Spy starring Melissa McCarthy
Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron
Still Alice starring Julianne Moore
Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen
Dave’s Top 5 Books:
The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George
A Fine Romance by Candice Bergen
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
So those are some favorites amongst the staff at the Topsham Public Library. What were your favorites from 2015?