Select a staff member’s name below to see their favorite books:
Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
HOLIDAY GIFT PICK
A haunting masterpiece set in the years before the Civil War about an enslaved girl who is sold …
North Woods
by Daniel Mason
HOLIDAY GIFT PICK
A young couple escapes the confines of their Puritan village to build a place of their own in th…
The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
HOLIDAY PICK & OUR FAVORITE BOOK THIS YEAR!
It’s the middle of the night, nearing the end of winter, and a you…
Bookshops & Bonedust
by Travis Baldree
The follow up to the perfectly cozy and heartfelt Legends & Lattes, this is another warm hug of a book.
Viv’s …
Don’t Fear the Reaper
by Stephen Graham Jones
This is the second installment in the Indian Lake trilogy, and it is outstanding! Jones continues to prove himself a …
The Librarianist
by Patrick deWitt
Comic and tender characters, a sudden surreal adventure halfway through – if you’ve read other deWitt (like The Siste…
The Whalebone Theatre
by Joanna Quinn
When we first meet Christabel Seagrave, we know three things: it is the end of WWI, she is 3 years old, and she is a …
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
Frankie and Zeke, two teens in Coalfield, TN, begin and artistic and slightly awkward friendship one summer. The magi…
The Rachel Incident
by Rachel O’Donoghue
Rachel is 20, finishing up her English degree, working in a bookstore, and contemplating what comes next as she launc…
The Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O’Farrell
Lucrezia de Medici is vividly bought to life in this stunning new novel from Maggie O’Farrell . Lucrezia is the odd o…
The Thick and the Lean
by Chana Porter
I devoured this book (pun intended). The world Chana Porter has created is a beautifully realized fun house mirror of…
Edgar & Lucy
by Victor Lodato
From the very first pages, young Edgar captures the reader’s heart. He is so fragile and so vulnerable. While his bon…
The Writing Retreat
by Julia Bartz
The enigmatic and intoxicatingly charming Roza Vallo writes dark, fantastical, sapphic horror that has developed a cu…
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
The rare kind of book that completely lives up to its reputation! This smart and hilarious romp though the apocalypse…
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty
by Akwaeke Emezi
A reimagining of the love story from the author of The Death of Vivek Oji.
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be a…
Walking Practice
by Dolki Min
PRIDE MONTH PICK
The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Ko…
Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and sh…
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
It’s 1954. 18 year-old Emmett Watson has just been released from a work farm in Kansas after serving 18 months for in…
This Time Tomorrow
by Emma Straub
What if you woke up one morning and found yourself back in high school? The day she is supposed to turn 40, this is e…
Providence
by Max Barry
After aliens attack a research vessel, Earth declares war on them, sending five AI spaceships, one manned with a crew…
The Girl With All the Gifts
by M.R. Carey
Given Carey’s history as a writer of chilling urban fantasy novels and horror comics it’s no surprise he wrote a drea…
Murder in Chianti (A Tuscan Mystery)
by Camilla Trinchieri
Nico Doyle, a former NYPD homicide detective, moves to a small town in Tuscany after the death of his beloved Italian…
The Stranger Diaries
by Elly Griffiths
The winner of the 2020 Edgar Awards. Death lies between the lines when the events of a dark story start coming true i…
Pretty as a Picture
by Elizabeth Little
Marissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work on a film …
The Windsor Knot
by SJ Bennett
The first book in the clever new crime series featuring Queen Elizabeth II solving the death of a young Russian piani…
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Which is more monstrous: the creation of life, or the exploitation of it? This reimagining of the classic novel is se…
The Anthropocene Reviewed
by John Green
As the United States descended into the Delta variant phase of the pandemic and the Oregon sky filled with smoke, I f…
Once There Was
by Kiyash Monsef
“Once was, once wasn’t,” is the way all Iranian fairy tales begin. How can something be and not be at the same time? …
The Dawn of Everything
by David Graeber & David Wengrow
This is the big book everyone is talking about. It presents a dramatically new understanding of human history, challe…
Hang the Moon
by Jeannette Walls
This novel takes place in western Virginia during Prohibition. The rich and powerful Kincaid family, under the patria…
Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
1912, Vancouver Island; 2020, New York City; 2203, a globe-spanning book tour; 2401, Moon Colonies 1 & 2. Seeming…
The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan
Tech genius Bix Bouton is searching for the next big innovation when he stumbles upon a group of Colombia professors …
American Mermaid
by Julia Langbein
Penelope did not write American Mermaid for fame or fortune- she is quite content with her life teaching highschool e…
Boys Run the Riot
by Keito Gaku
Trying to find a space where you can be authentically you is hard especially in the judgmental world of high school. …
The Stars Did Wander Darkling
by Colin Meloy
Hold onto your seats! In his thrilling new horror story that is not for the faint of heart, Meloy takes his readers o…
Age of Vice
by Deepti Kapoor
Part crime drama, part family saga, and all money, power and corruption set in modern India, Age of Vice has all the …
I Have Some Questions For You
by Rebecca Makkai
It’s been over twenty years since Bodie Kane graduated from Granby Academy when she is invited to return to her board…
Enchantment
by Katherine May
“Enchantment cannot be destroyed. It waits patiently for us to remember that we need it.” Feeling drained, anxious an…
Still Life
by Sarah Winman
It’s 1944, somewhere in the Italian countryside, when Evelyn Skinner and Ulysses Temper first meet. He’s a 24 year-ol…
The School for Good Mothers
by Jessamine Chan
Frida has had a bad year. She gave birth to her daughter, discovered her husband was cheating, and had her heart brok…
Blue Period
by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Yatora is an exceptional student, popular and aimless until he is moved by a chance encounter with a fellow students …
Legends & Lattes
by Travis Baldtree
This book was a delightful surprise! Despite its goofy title, this story of a warrior leaving behind her former life …
The Cruel Prince
by Holly Black
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the t…
Signal Fires
by Dani Shapiro
Shapiro’s achingly beautiful novel centers on the Wilf and Shenkman families, neighbors on Division Street whose live…
How High We Go In the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
“Haunting and luminous, How High We Go in the Dark
orchestrates its multitude of memorable voices into beautiful and…
Love & Saffron
by Kim Fay
In 1962, Imogen is an established food columnist, documenting her life on a small island off the coast of Seattle, he…
What Strange Paradise
by Omar El Akkad
A ship full of refugees sinks off the coast of a small island, leaving only one survivor – nine-year-old Amir. Vanna,…
Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead
From the two-time Pulitzer-winning author, a gloriously
entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set i…
Knight Owl
by Christopher Denise
I adore this book! A determined little owl is not the stereotypical
Knight, but proves that this is good thing in th…
Velvet Was the Night
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
1972, Mexico City. Amidst the chaos of violent protests and political unrest, we meet two seemingly unconnected lost …
When We Were Birds
by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Port Angeles, Trinidad. Darwin has reluctantly, painfully gone against the beliefs of his Rastafarian family and take…
Ordinary Monsters
by J.M. Miro
Charlie and Marlowe are pursued by a man made of shadow in this intricate offering from J.M. Miro.
It is easy to f…
Bomb Shelter
by Mary Laura Philpott
Mary Laura Philpott, author of I Miss You When I Blink, returns with a beautiful memoir that meanders and weaves thro…
The Last White Man
by Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid’s gift for exploring deep and complex issues in original ways is on full display with The Last White Man…