Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Year of Yes  By Shonda Rhimes Simon & Schuster, 2015. 311 pgs. Nonfiction Shonda Rhimes is the creator of "Grey's Anatomy"...

Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel  by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff  Atheneum, 2020. 208 pgs. Young Adult Graphic Novels ...

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yo...

Blood Countess By Lana Popovic Harry N. Abrams, 2020. 293 pages. Young Adult Anna is intelligent, driven, and struggling to figure out her p...

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 561 pages. Historical Fiction When a soon-to-be-retired university profe...

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Atria Books, 2020, 341 pages, General Fiction A bank robber’s escape plan is foiled when he takes the wron...

Displacement  by Lucy Kinsley  Fantagraphic Books, 2015. 156 pages. Graphic Novel.  When Lucy’s aging grandparents book a cruise through the...

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline Ballantine Books, 2020. 377 pages. Fiction Wade Watts won the greatest video game ever created. For a...

  Rebecca  by Daphne du Maurier  Doubleday, 1938. 380 pages. Fiction.   This classic novel of romantic suspense begins with our young, unn...

How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather  Knopf Books, 2016. 368 pages. Young Adult  After moving from New York to Salem with her stepmother,15...

Scars Like Wings By Erin Stewart Delacorte Press, 2019. 376 pages. Young Adult Sixteen-year-old Ava is left severely disfigured after a hous...

The Blade Itself by Joe Ambercrombie Orbit, 2015. 542 pages. Fantasy. Magic is leeching from the world, or so Ambercrombie writes as he intr...

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune Tor, 2020, 398 page, Fantasy As a case worker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, Lin...

  All Hearts Come Home For Christmas By Sarah Eden, Anita Stansfield, Esther Hatch & Joanna Barker Covenant Communications, 2019. 290 pg...

We Are Not Free By Traci Chee Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 384 pages. Young Adult  Fourteen Japanese-American teens who grew up in Japan...

Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World By Brooke McAlary Sourcebooks, Inc., 2018. 262 pages. Nonfiction Memoir-esque and meditative, Slow: ...

A Promised Land By Barack Obama Crown, 2020. 751 pages. Biography Former President Barack Obama sat down to write his memoir and thought he ...

Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld Simon & Schuster, 2020. 470 pages. Nonfiction Seinfeld has collected his material from many decades ...

Mexican Gothic   By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  Del Rey, 2020. 301 pages. Fiction  In 1950s Mexico, Noemi’s life as a glamorous debutante is fille...

Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice  by Debbie Levy  Simon & Schuster 2019. 207 pages. Graphic Novel.  Modern feminis...

Shine By Jessica Jung Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2020. 346 pages. Young Adult When Rachel Kim is recruited by one of Korea’s top K-pop lab...

Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts by Nancy Campbell Allen Shadow Mountain, 2020. 308 pages. Romance                                          ...

Elemental Haiku: Poems to Honor the Periodic Table, Three Lines at a Time By Mary Soon Lee Ten Speed Press, 2019. 131 pages. Poetry A set of...

A Deadly Education: A Novel by Naomi Novik Del Rey, 2020. 320 pages. Science Fiction Trapped in the Scholomance, a deadly version of Hogwart...

  To Kill a Kingdom  by Alexandra Christo  Feiwel and Friends, 2018. 342 pages. YA Fiction, Fantasy  Princess Lira, next in line for the si...

Home Body  by Rupi Kaur  Andrews McMeel, 2020. 188 pages. Poetry  i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i n...

I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. Young Adult Skye Shinn wants to be a K-pop ...

To Best the Boys By Mary Weber Thomas Nelson, 2019, 321 pages, Young Adult Fantasy/Adventure Fiction Every year, the residents of Pinsbury P...

Stalking Jack the Ripper By Kerri Maniscalco  Brown and Company, 2016. 326 pages. Young Adult. Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was ...

The Glass Ocean By Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White William Morrow, 2018. 408 pages. Historical Fiction Desperate for inspir...