
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
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Find it
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Find it
- All's Well by Mona Awad Find it
- All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown Find it
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Find it
- Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti Find it
- Annabel by Kathleen Winter Find it
- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Find it
- As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross Find it
- Basic Black with Pearls by Helen Weinzweig Find it
- Bear by Marian Engel Find it
- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 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
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Find it
- Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Find it
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding Find it
- Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Find it
- Bunny by Mona Awad Find it
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Find it
- Carry On by Rainbow Rowell Find it
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Find it
- A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab Find it
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Find it
- Circe by Madeline Miller Find it
- Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 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
- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Find it
- Disgrace by J. M Coetzee Find it
- Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross Find it
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Find it
- Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall by Suzette Mayr Find it
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Find it
- Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh Find it
- Empress of the Night by Eva Stachniak Find it
- Everybody Has Everything by Katrina Onstad Find it
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 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
- Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor Find it
- Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Find it
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews Find it
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore Find it
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Find it
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh Find it
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Find it
- Glitterland by Alexis Hall Find it
- The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon Find it
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Find it
- Greenwood by Michael Christie Find it
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King Find it
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Find it
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Find it
- Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Find it
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling 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
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Find it
- How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti Find it
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Find it
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman Find it
- If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga Find it
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Find it
- The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake Find it
- In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan Find it
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King Find it
- Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Find it
- Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri Find it
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Find it
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab Find it
- The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy Find it
- The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters by Janet Ahlberg Find it
- The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling Find it
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Find it
- The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper Find it
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Find it
- The Lake House by Kate Morton Find it
- The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Choksi 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
- Little Thieves by Margaret Owen Find it
- Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro Find it
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Find it
- Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World Retold by Bolu Babalola 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
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Find it
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Find it
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Find it
- Minor Detail by Adania Shibli Find it
- The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger Find it
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Find it
- Motherhood by Sheila Heti Find it
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Find it
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Find it
- My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Find it
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Find it
- Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis Find it
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Find it
- Normal People by Sally Rooney Find it
- Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson Find it
- The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Find it
- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Find it
- Open Throat by Henry Hoke Find it
- Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson Find it
- Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade Find it
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Find it
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson Find it
- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Find it
- The Overstory by Richard Powers Find it
- Pachinko by Ming Jin Lee Find it
- Paradise by Toni Morrison Find it
- Pastoral by André Alexis Find it
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Find it
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Find it
- Poor Things by Alasdair Gray Find it
- The Power by Naomi Alderman Find it
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Find it
- A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers Find it
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Find it
- Real Life by Brandon Taylor Find it
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Find it
- The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton Find it
- Room by Emma Donoghue Find it
- The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion Find it
- Rouge by Mona Awad Find it
- Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali Find it
- Scream by Rohinton Mistry Find it
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Find it
- Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Find it
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt Find it
- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton Find it
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Can Find it
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Find it
- The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison Find it
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Find it
- Siren Queen by Nghi Vo Find it
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Find it
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Find it
- The Slow Fix by Ivan Coyote Find it
- Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson Find it
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Find it
- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason Find it
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester Find it
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Find it
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Find it
- Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado Find it
- Stunt by Claudia Dey Find it
- The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong Find it
- Take Us to Your Chief by Drew Hayden Taylor Find it
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Find it
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris Find it
- Tell It to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami Find it
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Find it
- They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki Find it
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Find it
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Find it
- Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden Find it
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters Find it
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Find it
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Find it
- Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt Find it
- The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal Find it
- The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Find it
- Wednesday Night at the End of the World by Helene Rioux Find it
- The Weight of Snow by Christian Guay-Poliquin Find it
- Where the Air is Sweet by Tasneem Jamal Find it
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 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
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio 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
- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister 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
- You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked by Sheung-King Find it
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Staff Picks: Non-Fiction
- Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen Find it
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Find it
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Find it
- Behind the Red Door: How Elizabeth Arden's Legacy Inspired My Coming-of-Age Story in the Beauty Industry by Louise Claire Johnson Find it
- The Beothuk Saga by Bernard Assiniwi Find it
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Find it
- Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Find it
- Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum Find it
- David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Find it
- Dear Ijeawele, or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Find it
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Find it
- Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal 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
- Everest: The West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein Find it
- Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom 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
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 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
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychadelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan Find it
- If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground by J. Edward Chamberlin Find it
- In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park and Maryanne Vollers Find it
- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson Find it
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Find it
- The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality by Julia Sondra Decker 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 Library Book by Susan Orlean Find it
- Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion by Nicholas Spencer Find it
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott Find it
- The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabriel Maté Find it
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin Find it
- Pageboy by Elliot Page Find it
- Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper 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
- Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir K. Puar Find it
- They Said This Would be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis Find it
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein Find it
- Time Now for the Vinyl Café Story Exchange by Stuart McLean Find it
- Too Much and Not in the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose Find it
- Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich Find it
- The Ward Uncovered: The Archeology of Everyday Life edited by Holly Martelle, Michael McClelland, Tatum Taylor, and John Lorinc 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
- Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui 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
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Find it
- Blankets by Craig Thompson Find it
- Boundless by Jillian Tamaki Find it
- Boxers by Gene Luen Yang Find it
- bpNichol Comics edited by Carl Peters Find it
- Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu Find it
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton 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
- Heartstopper, Volumes 1-4 by Alice Oseman Find it
- Hooky Volume 1 & Volume 2 by Míriam Bonastre Tur Find it
- If I Go Missing by Brianna Jonnie, Nahanni Shingoose, and Neal Shannacappo 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
- My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Kabi Nagata Find it
- Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Find it
- Paper Girls, Volumes 1 & 2 by Brian K. Vaughan Find it
- Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley Find it
- Roaming by Mariko Tamako Find it
- Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan Find it
- Saints by Gene Luen Yang Find it
- Snotgirl Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care by Bryan Lee O'Malley 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
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Staff Picks: Poetry
- Crush by Richard Siken Find it
- Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera by Anne Carson Find it
- The Essential Richard Outram by Richard Outram; selected by Amanda Jernigen. Find it
- If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson Find it
- Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems by P.K. Page Find it
- MxT by Sina Queyras Find it