Staff Picks-Alpine Branch Library
Mark’s List
In the Land of No Right Angles by Daphne Beal
America, America by Ethan Canin
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Meadow by James Galvin
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhupa Lahiri
A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Wendi’s List
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Gentleman of the Road by Michael Chabon
In the Woods by Tana French
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Letham
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Jennifer’s List
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
The Evolution of Calpurnica Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Love Walked In by Mris De los Santos
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
Rachelle’s List
Go to Bed Monster by Natasha Wing
Eenie Meenie Minee Moe Who ate all the Cookie Dough? By Karen Beaumont
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! By Karen Beaumont
Bark George by Jule Feiffer
Grumpy Badger’s Christmas by Paul Bright
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Bloody Jack: being an account of the curious adventures of Mary “Jacky” Farber ship’s boy by L.A. Myer
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Everyday Grace by Marianne Williamson
Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Writing Picture Books: A hands-on guide from story creation to publication by Ann Whitford Paul
