Staff Picks
Wondering what to read next? Try one of our staff picks, personally recommended by UC library assistants, who are also students in the Faculty of Information.
Click a link below to find the book in the U of T Library catalogue. And the next time you're at the UC Library, look for the bright pink Staff Pick labels.
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Staff Picks: Fiction
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Find it
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Find it
- Annabel by Kathleen Winter Find it
- As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross Find it
- Bear by Marian Engel Find it
- Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Find it
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Find it
- Blue Suicide by Jennifer Venner Find it
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding Find it
- Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Find it
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Find it
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Find it
- The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith Find it
- The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Find it
- Disgrace by J. M Coetzee Find it
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Find it
- Empress of the Night by Eva Stachniak Find it
- Everybody Has Everything by Katrina Onstad Find it
- Fall on Your Knees by Anne Marie MacDonald Find it
- Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry Find it
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Find it
- The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Find it
- Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis Find it
- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies Find it
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews Find it
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore Find it
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson Find it
- The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon Find it
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Find it
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Find it
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Find it
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro Find it
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Find it
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Find it
- How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti Find it
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman Find it
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino Find it
- Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri Find it
- The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters by Janet Ahlberg Find it
- The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling Find it
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay Find it
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Find it
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Find it
- Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro Find it
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Find it
- Lumberjanes: Unicorn power! by Mariko Tamaki; illustrated by Brooke Allen Find it
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Find it
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Find it
- The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger Find it
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Find it
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Find it
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Find it
- Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis Find it
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Find it
- Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson Find it
- Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade Find it
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson Find it
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Find it
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Find it
- Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier Find it
- The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton Find it
- Room by Emma Donoghue Find it
- The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion Find it
- Scream by Rohinton Mistry Find it
- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton Find it
- The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison Find it
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Find it
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Find it
- The Slow Fix by Ivan Coyote Find it
- Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson Find it
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Find it
- Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado Find it
- Take Us to Your Chief by Drew Hayden Taylor Find it
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Find it
- Tell It to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami Find it
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Find it
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Find it
- Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden Find it
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters Find it
- The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Find it
- Wednesday Night at the End of the World by Helene Rioux Find it
- Where the Air is Sweet by Tasneem Jamal Find it
- Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro Find it
- Wife by Bharati Mukherjee Find it
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan Find it
- The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak Find it
- The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels Find it
- Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck Find it
- Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson Find it
- World War Z by Max Brooks Find it
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Find it
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Find it
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Find it
- Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon by Nicole Brossard Find it
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Staff Picks: Non-Fiction
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Find it
- The Beothuk Saga by Bernard Assiniwi Find it
- Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum Find it
- David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Find it
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Find it
- The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg Find it
- Dispatches from the Front: The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War by David Halton Find it
- Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese Find it
- Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman Find it
- The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash Find it
- Finding Gobi by Dion Leonard with Craig Borlas Find it
- From Harvey River by Lorna Goodison Find it
- Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations by Otto Friedrich Find it
- The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity by Richard Florida Find it
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin Find it
- If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground by J. Edward Chamberlin Find it
- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson Find it
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling Find it
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain Find it
- Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon Find it
- Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris Find it
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson Find it
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin Find it
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely Find it
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain Find it
- Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins Find it
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Find it
- The Short, Happy Walks of Max MacPherson by Harry Bruce; illustrated by George Meadows Find it
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan Find it
- Time Now for the Vinyl Café Story Exchange by Stuart McLean Find it
- Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich Find it
- The Wealthy Barber Returns by David Chilton Find it
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Find it
- Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Find it
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Find it
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde Find it
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Staff Picks: Graphic Novels
- Blankets by Craig Thompson Find it
- Boxers by Gene Luen Yang Find it
- bpNichol Comics edited by Carl Peters Find it
- The Frank Book by Jim Woodring Find it
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Find it
- Hark!: A Vagrant by Kate Beaton Find it
- In-Between Days by Teva Harrison Find it
- Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney Find it
- My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book One by Emil Ferris Find it
- Paper Girls, Volumes 1 & 2 by Brian K. Vaughan Find it
- Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan Find it
- Saints by Gene Luen Yang Find it
- The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman Find it
- Spinning by Tillie Walden Find it
- Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton Find it
- Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Michael DeForge Find it
- The Ticking by Renee French Find it
- Trillium by Jeff Lemire Find it
- Weathercraft by Jim Woodring Find it
- A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson Find it