Learn what to check out next! We talk about new books, bestsellers, books, movies and music in many different genres.

In this annual fan-favorite episode, Stephanie, Megan, and Kelli join Thad, Lissa and Miranda to recommend our favorites from the past year of reading.

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Show Notes – Best Books of 2015

Over 3 million votes were cast in the Goodreads Choice Awards: The Best Books 2015

Librarians from the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library discuss the winners and add our own favorite reads from the past year to the categories.

This episode was so chock-full of reading recommendations that we are releasing it in two parts.

The second half of this podcast reflects the joy and excitement of librarians talking about great books!  Plus, a bit of a spoiler alert about the second part of Episode 84: instead of a Fast Five segment, we will each share 5 new things we discovered or enjoyed in 2015, including books, food and drink, television and more!

Thanks for listening!

Interested in hearing more from these guests? Check out some of our other episodes including Books into Movies, Best Books of 2014, and Kansas Notable Books.

 

 Have a suggestion? Want to be our next guest? Leave a comment or email us podcast@tscpl.org.

Lissa Staley

Lissa Staley helps people use the library. She is a Book Evangelist, Trivia Emcee, Classics Made Modern book discussion leader, NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison, and frequent library customer. She loves her kids, being a librarian, living in Topeka, and helping people form connections and community. (She's the Community Connections Librarian!) She reads a new book every few days, but is enjoying the audiobook of "Empress of Forever" by Max Gladstone, the ebook "When We Were Magic" by Sarah Gailey and is eagerly awaiting John Scalzi's "The Last Emperox" in April!