If history has taught us anything, it's that it's about to get really cold. Time to get some good books to read while the weather outside is frightful. Below, the Plumb Library staff share their top books of 2016.

Gail Roberts

1. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Philips

2. The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

3. A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

4. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

5. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

6. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

7. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

8. The Winter Siege by Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman

9. The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King

10. Lumberjanes, Volumes 1-3 by Noelle Stevenson and Shannon Watters

Jen Frasier

1. Yesternight by Cat Winters

2. News of the World by Paulette Giles

3. Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs

4. Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray by Dorothy Love

5. Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

6. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

7. The Stargazer’s Sister by Carrie Brown

8. Furiously Happy by Jennie Lawson

9. Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola

10. A Taste for Monsters by Matthew Kirby

Bonus: Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry

Lisa Fuller

1. After You by Jojo Moyes

2. Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon

3. I Work in a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan

4. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

5. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

6. The Lost Crown by Sarah Miller

7. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

8. Pudge: The Biography of Carlton Fisk by Doug Wilson

9. Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen

10. Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

Ms. Lisa’s top books for kids

1. The Cookie Fiasco by Dan Santat

2. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, et.al.

3. The Encyclopedia Brown Collection by Donald Sobol

4. Grumpy Pants by Claire Messer 5. I Love Cake by Tammi Sauer

5. School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex

6. The Not - So - Quiet Library by Zachariah OHora

7. The Thank - You Book by Mo Willems 9. Towers Falling by Jewel Rhodes

8. Woodpecker Wants a Waffle by Steve Breen

Ms. Lisa’s top books for teens

1. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

2. The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

3. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

4. The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

5. Roller Girl by Victoria Jameson

6. Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

7. The Nest by Kenneth Oppel

8. Uprooted by Naomi Novick

9. Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

10. Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges