One of the best things about being a bookseller is reading and recommending books to our customers. After breezing through hundreds of books each this year, we have somehow managed to pick out our favorites of 2011. You can find most of these on the Staff Pick Shelf at The Bookstore. Or if you enjoy reading ebooks, just click over to the Google ebook feature on the right sidebar, and you can search, purchase and download a digital book within minutes!
Margie's 2011 Top Staff Picks
Favorite Nonfiction
(In alphabetical order)
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
The Greater Journey by David McCullough
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edward de Waal
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Paris Was Ours by Penelope Rowlands
Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses by Claudia Sternbach
Women Building History: Public Art of the 1893 Columbian Exposition by Wanda Corn
Margie's Favorite Historical Fiction
(In alphabetical order)
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
The Paris Wife by Paula McClain
Queen of America by Luis Urrea
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Carolyn Preston
Margie's Favorite Fiction
(In alphabetical order)
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
The Fates Will Find Their Way by
Hannah Pittard
The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite
Clayton
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey
Eugenides
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo
Campbell
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
You Know When The Men Are Gone by
Siobhan Fallon
Sue's Favorite Staff Picks 2011
(In alphabetical order)
Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright
The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edward de Wall
The Illumination Kevin Brockmeier
Leaving Van Gogh Carol Wallace
Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides
Rules of Civility Amor Towles
Say Her Name by Fransisco Goldman
Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
Submission Amy Waldman
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
Upright Piano Player David Abbott
Volt Alan Heathcock
Jenny's Favorite Staff Picks 2011
(In alphabetical order)
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Leaving Van Gogh by Carol Wallace
The Lost Song by Andrea Levy
Model Home by Eric Puchner
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Night Strangers by Chris
Bohjalian
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor
Henderson
We Are the Animals by Justin Torres
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