*Illustration by Charlie Blodnieks and Mita Sharma*

Every winter, right before we leave for break, the Quarto Staff has a holiday book exchange. We swap books that we already love, in hopes of finding new books that we will love. Here are all of the wonderful books we swapped! We hope you find an interesting title on here that you can read and enjoy over break.

The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The lais of Marie de France
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
Zong! by M. NourbSe Philip
Cleaning Up New York by Bob Rosenthal
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman
Cane by Jean Toomer
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lot by Bryan Washington
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James L. Loewen
Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen