What to Get the Readers on Your List? Local Librarians Give Their Top 10 Book Picks

We love books: how they look and feel and especially all those words packed inside. We also thing they they make great gifts and asked our favorite librarians if they could share their top picks for giving and receiving.

Here are the top 10 books recommended by Ellen O'Brien who's the director at the :

• Press Here - Herve Tullet - (Ages 2 and up)  
• The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka - (Adult Fiction)  
• An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halstead and the Miracle Drug, Cocaine - Howard Markel - (Adult NonFiction)  
• The True Story of Hansel and Gretel - Louise Murphy - (Adult Fiction)  
• The Reapers are Angels - Alden Bell - (Adult Fiction)  
• Turn of Mind - Alice LaPlant - (Adult Fiction)  
• This Beautiful Life - Helen Schulman - (Adult Fiction) 
• Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton - (Some libraries consider this Young Adult Fiction - could be read by either teens or adults.)  
• Leaving Van Gogh: A Novel - Carol Wallace - (Adult Fiction)  
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs - (Ages 13 and up - up being adults as well as young teens.)

We also asked Patti Forsman, the new library manager over in , to give us her top 10 favorites in children's books:

• For those Percy Jackson fans: The Heroes of Olympus series (Book 1:  The Lost Throne, Book 2: Son of Neptune) by Rick Riordan
• For fans of The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick's new novel Wonderstruck
• The Hunger Games triology by Suzanne Collins
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book 6):  Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
• War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (movie coming out Christmas Day and also adapted from book for the play same title)
• This year's Caldectott Award winner:  A Sick Day for Amos McGee, written By Phillip C. Stead and illustrated by Erin Stead
• The Lego Ideas Book by Daniel Lipkowitz
• An Awesome Book of Thanks! by Dallas Clayton
• Any Jan Brett picture book, but especially her latest Home for Christmas
• And of course ... The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore