Posted by Becky on Sunday, Dec 1, 2024
The Best of the Best for 2024 is coming soon! ICPL staff nominated nearly 150 titles released this year as their favorite reads of 2024. Follow us daily on social media as we recommend titles, share lists of great reads and announce the winning title for the year!
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Timeline
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What to Look For
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Description
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December 1-21
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Honorable Mention Titles
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We will highlight one title each day as an honorable mention. Honorable mentions will have earned multiple nominations by ICPL staff, but didn’t quite rise to the highest ranking for their genre (check out the upcoming Staff Genre Lists for those staff favorites!).
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December 22-30
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Staff Genre Lists
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One list will be shared each day, containing all nominated titles from one of the following categories: Children’s, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Romance, Nonfiction, Biography/Memoir, and Fiction. Browse these lists to see recommended titles and to satiate your curiosity on which title received the greatest number of votes for that genre.
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December 31
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Best of the Best Announcement
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Find out the title of the book that was nominated more frequently than any other, our Best of the Best for 2024.
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Interested in browsing past lists? Take a look at these staff favorites from 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Enjoy discovering your next great read!
About the Author
Becky works as a Page Supervisor in Community and Access Services. You'll see her at the Help Desk and Info Desk.
I particularly enjoy fantasy stories and I ended up reading Katherine Arden's entire trilogy within a week. The Bear and the Nightingale (first in the series) is a beautiful construction of a Russian fairy tale following young Vasya and the development of her magical abilities. She quickly finds resistance with her power and must navigate a world full of change, evil and influence in order to protect her family, her village, and those unseen. -Becky