Staff Picks

SELECTED STORIES by Alice Munro
--- Jennifer Abbots

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Book 4) by J. K. Rowling
--- Gena Bland

THE SHIPPING NEWS by Annie Proulx
--- Meredith Blum

LOVE IN A DEAD LANGUAGE by Lee Siegel
--- Sarah Brennan

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
--- Ann Bruns

THE MAN WHO ATE EVERYTHING: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits by Jeffrey Steingarten
--- Anita Bunn

BLACK LIGHT by Stephen Hunter
--- Mike Curro

BLUE GOLD by Clive Cussler
--- Bob Fink

THE HUNGRY OCEAN by Linda Greenlaw
---Carol Fitzgerald

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
--- Marge Fletcher

THE THORN BIRDS by Colleen McCullough
--- Amita Guha

THE ICE HARVEST by Scott Phillips
--- Joe Hartlaub

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
--- Martha Hostetter

THE HUMAN STAIN by Philip Roth
--- Amy Joffe

BRIDGET JONES DIARY by Helen Fielding
--- Eda Kalkay

WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE by Jonathan Ames
--- Jon Lamas

THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
--- Emily Mathieu

BIG STONE GAP by Adriana Trigiani
--- Shannon Maughan

PASTORALIA by George Saunders
--- Eileen Zimmerman Nicol

PARABLE OF THE SOWER by Octavia Butler
--- Melanie Okadigwe

A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson
--- Elizabeth Peterson

MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert
--- Nazimul Razack

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
--- Mary Louise Rohner

WOMAN: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
--- Dana Schwartz

THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY by Michael Chabon
--- Jana Siciliano

PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf
--- Stuart Shiffman

ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris
--- Joan Suszko

HEARTBREAKER by Julie Garwood
--- Debbie Weiner

THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR by J.G. Farrell
--- Kathy Weissman

WRITTEN ON THE BODY by Jeanette Winterson
--- Jill Zaklow