Jim and Robyn are back for season two of Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians! The first episode of the season features a discussion about the best books of 2021 with Adrienne Pettinelli, director of the Henrietta Public Library, and a conversation with PCL page Roberta about what we think is the biggest book of the year. Stick around to the end for a recommendation from one of our new staff members and a peek at what we have coming up in the next episode.
*Notable Mentions*
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy
Yearbook - Seth Rogen
Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur - Sheldon Pearce
The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage - Drew Magary
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood - Dawn Turner
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
These Precious Days - Ann Patchett
The Sentence - Louise Elfrich
No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
Matrix - Lauren Groff
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
Under the Whispering Door - TJ Klune
What Strange Paradise - Omar El Akkad
The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted - Suleika Jaouad
