Staff Picks: 100 Favorite Books
Every once in awhile, our staff is polled to see what books they have enjoyed or still love to read over again. This latest list, found in alphabetical order by author, was compiled in 2004. We hope you will have fun as you read some of our picks! Enjoy!
| Tuesdays With Morrie | Albom, Mitch |
| On a Pale Horse | Anthony, Piers |
| The Blind Assassin | Atwood, Margaret |
| Shelters of Stone | Auel, Jean |
| Pride and Prejudice | Austen, Jane |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Berendt, John |
| War Against the Weak | Black, Edwin |
| Kitchen Confidential | Bourdain, Anthony |
| Jane Eyre | Bronte, Charlotte |
| Wuthering Heights | Bronte, Emily |
| The Da Vinci Code | Brown, Dan |
| Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living | Dalai Lama |
| My Antonia | Cather, Willa |
| Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Chabon, Michael |
| Girl With a Pearl Earring | Chevalier, Tracy |
| Diary of a Psychic: Shattering the Myths | Choquette, Sonia |
| Caramelo | Cisneros, Sandra |
| Living History | Clinton, Hillary |
| The Alchemist | Coelho, Paolo |
| Disgrace | Coetzee, J.M. |
| Lord Jim | Conrad, Joseph |
| Together Alone | Delinsky, Barbara |
| Great Expectations | Dickens, Charles |
| Rebecca | Du Maurier, Daphne |
| Light in August | Faulkner, William |
| Bridget Jones's Diary | Fielding, Helen |
| Tom Jones | Fielding, Henry |
| Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them | Franken, Al |
| Cold Mountain | Frazier, Charles |
| A Lesson Before Dying | Gaines, Ernest J. |
| The Bible | |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Golden, Arthur |
| Beyond the Broken Gate | Graybar, Charles |
| Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Haddon, Mark |
| The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Heinlein, Robert |
| Sense of Evil | Hooper, Kay |
| Confederates in the Attic | Horwitz, Tony |
| Unsuitable Job for a Woman | James, P.D. |
| At Home in Mitford | Karon, Jan |
| The Briar King | Keyes, Greg |
| Mountains Beyond Mountains | Kidder, Tracy |
| The Bean Trees | Kingsolver, Barbara |
| Pigs in Heaven | Kingsolver, Barbara |
| Poisonwood Bible | Kingsolver, Barbara |
| Prodigal Summer | Kingsolver, Barbara |
| Desire Lines | Kline, Christina Baker |
| I Know This Much is True | Lamb, Wally |
| Devil in the White City | Larson, Erik |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper |
| Fortress of Solitude | Lethem, Jonathan |
| Chronicles of Narnia | Lewis, C.S. |
| Perelandra | Lewis, C.S. |
| The Buying of the President | Lewis, Charles |
| Babbitt | Lewis, Sinclair |
| Main Street | Lewis, Sinclair |
| Gift from the Sea | Lindbergh, Anne |
| The Fixer | Malamud, Bernard |
| Slow Dollar | Maron, Margaret |
| Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy | Marrs, Jim |
| Life of Pi | Martel, Yann |
| A Game of Thrones | Martin, George R. |
| Angela's Ashes | McCourt, Frank |
| Family Matters | Mistry, Rohinton |
| Gone With the Wind | Mitchell, Margaret |
| Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, Lucy |
| Dude, Where's My Country? | Moore, Michael |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | Nafisi, Azar |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Niffenegger, Audrey |
| The Orchid Thief | Orlean, Susan |
| 1984 | Orwell, George |
| Bel Canto | Patchett, Ann |
| Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas | Patterson, James |
| Winterdance | Paulsen, Gary |
| A Density of Souls | Rice, Christopher |
| Call It Sleep | Roth, Henry |
| Catcher in the Rye | Salinger, J.D. |
| True Notebooks | Salzman, Mark |
| The Cave | Saramago, Jose |
| Fast Food Nation | Schlosser, Eric |
| Killer Angels | Shaara, Michael |
| In Search of King Solomon's Mines | Shah, Tahir |
| Weight of Water | Shreve, Anita |
| A Thousand Acres | Smiley, Jane |
| Rose | Smith, Martin Cruz |
| The Notebook | Sparks, Nicholas |
| The Bonesetter's Daughter | Tan, Amy |
| The Secret History | Tartt, Donna |
| Fellowship of the Ring | Tolkien, J.R.R. |
| Lord of the Rings | Tolkien, J.R.R. |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy, Leo |
| Pursuit of God | Tozer, A.W. |
| The Colour | Tremain, Rose |
| Samurai's Garden | Tsukiyama, Gail |
| Miracle Life of Edgar Mint | Udall, Brady |
| Purpose Driven Life | Warren, Rick |
| Montana 1948 | Watson, Larry |
| March Upcountry | Weber, David |
| Bridge of San Luis Rey | Wilder, Thorton |
| Our Town | Wilder, Thorton |
| Tending Roses | Wingate, Lisa |
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