UVic VILSC Booksmack titles 2024

UVic's recommendations via Booksmark 2024 at the Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference.

Updated April 24, 2024
University of Victoria Libraries Tina Bebbington, History and Newspaper Librarian, UVic
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Stroud, Jonathan.
Be careful what you wish for.  Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot-shot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of his elders, Nathaniel decides to kick up his...
Redwall
Jacques, Brian.
Soon to be a Netflix original movie! One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time   The book that inspired a legend--the first novel in the beloved, bestselling Redwall saga. Welcome to Mossflower Wood,...
Snow crash
Stephenson, Neal
The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the...
The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil.
The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.  Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place--he's the only living...

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