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2021 Door County Top Reads

Here’s a list of the bestselling books at some of our community’s independent bookstores and the Door County Library’s top checkouts.

OtherWorlds, 41 N. 3rd Ave. in Sturgeon Bay

• 40 Thieves on Saipan by Joseph Tachovsky
• The Tannenbaum Christmas Quilt by Ann Hazelwood
• Death Washes Ashore by Patricia Skalka
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Grinny Granny Donkey by Craig Smith and Katz Cowley (illustrator)
• Rabbit & Bear Make a Wish by Tara Shannon
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
• The Kids’ Guide to Birds of Wisconsin by Stan Tekiela
• Sweetwater Sailors by Bob Ojala
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Novel Bay Booksellers, 44 N. 3rd Ave. in Sturgeon Bay

• Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery series by Patricia Skalka
• Door County Quilts series by Ann Hazelwood
• Good Morning, Door County by Ann Heyse and Karen Heyse (illustrator)
• Good Night, Door County by Ann Heyse and Karen Heyse (illustrator)
• Haunted Door County by Gayle Soucek
• Door County’s Best Hikes & Outdoor Adventures by Joe and Janet Mrazek
• The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Yardstick Books, 317 Steele St. in Algoma

• When the Night Rained Fire: Kewaunee County and the Great Fire by Virginia Feld Johnson
• On a Wisconsin Family Farm by Corey A. Geiger
• Gone the Way of the Dodo Bird by Bret Kissinger 
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Quilters of the Door by Ann Hazelwood
• The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Door County Library’s Top Checkouts

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
• The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff

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