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Best of the Best 2024

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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December 1-21
Honorable Mention Titles
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!).
December 22-30
Staff Genre Lists
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.
December 31
Best of the Best Announcement 
Find out the title of the book that was nominated more frequently than any other, our Best of the Best for 2024.

 

Interested in browsing past lists? Take a look at these staff favorites from 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Enjoy discovering your next great read!

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  • The secrets we kept

    by Lara Prescott

    FICTION Prescott Lara
    Historical Fiction

    At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops, and invisibly ferry classified documents.

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    While "The Secrets We Kept" is set around the creation and publication of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago," it is not necessary to have read "Doctor Zhivago" to appreciate Prescott's work (though I now have added it to my list of books to read in the future!). Your attention shifts between two U.S. undercover typists working to distribute Pasternak's novel, to Olga (Pasternak's mistress), who's own livelihood and well being is very closely linked to the novel's publication. I really enjoy historical fiction and loved how this account examines the consequences and impact of creative, intellectual works during the time of the Cold War. -Becky
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