It’s time once again for staff of Halifax Public Libraries to share their favourite books published in 2013.
As always I’m impressed by the diversity of their reading interests and the fact that the same book is never nominated twice.
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth (M)
by Chris Hadfield
Black Loyalists: southern settlers of the first free black communities in Nova Scotia (M) by Ruth Holmes Whitehead
by Bill Bryson
I Am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban (M) by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
Mo’ Meta Blues (M)
by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
Shakespeare’s Pub: a barstool history of London as seen through the windows of its oldest pub – the George Inn (M)
by Pete Brown
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: verily, a new hope (M) by Ian Doescher