Jim and Robyn are back for season two of Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarians! The first episode of the season features a discussion about the best books of 2021 with Adrienne Pettinelli, director of the Henrietta Public Library, and a conversation with PCL page Roberta about what we think is the biggest book of the year. Stick around to the end for a recommendation from one of our new staff members and a peek at what we have coming up in the next episode.

*Notable Mentions*

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy

Yearbook - Seth Rogen

Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur - Sheldon Pearce

The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage - Drew Magary

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood - Dawn Turner

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

These Precious Days - Ann Patchett

The Sentence - Louise Elfrich

No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

Matrix - Lauren Groff

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Under the Whispering Door - TJ Klune

What Strange Paradise - Omar El Akkad

The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted - Suleika Jaouad

YFNL talks with author/librarian April Mcloud