Each year Jo Hansen meticulously culls, analyses, organizes, edits, and publishes our selections for the year’s best Fiction and Nonfiction.

2017 produced the library’s largest booklets yet! Jo comes back onto the podcast to talk about how the booklets were compiled, our year in books, and highlight a few of the titles you’ll find in these annual booklets.

Be sure to stop by the reference desk at either library to snag a copy before they run out.

View the Fiction and Nonfiction booklets online right now!

View our new 2017 Holiday Gift Guide.

Read Jo’s year end wrap-up on the library’s Shelf Life blog.

Books mentioned in the episode:

• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Dear Fahrenheit 451
• Nomadland
• The Lost City of the Monkey God
• The Marsh King’s Daughter
• Cook Korean!
• Glass Houses
• Lincoln in the Bardo
• Exit West
• Sing, Unburied, Sing

Listen to our interview with Dear Fahrenheit 451 author Annie Spence.

Listen to our previous podcast episode on Cook Korean!