Staff Picks 2014
Top Picks! (* = number of staff recommendations)
- The Book with No Pictures******
by B.J. Novak - All the Light We Cannot See****
by Anthony Doerr - The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion**
by Fannie Flagg - A Christmas Prayer**
by Kimberla Lawson Roby - The Invention of Wings**
by Sue Monk Kidd - The Maze Runner Series**
by James Dashner - Sycamore Row**
by John Grisham - Wonder**
by P. J. Palacio - 10% Happier
by Dan Harris - Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success
by Steve Harvey - Adultery
by Paulo Coelho - The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
by Michael Scott - All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque - Alpha Oops!
by Alethea Kontis - The Always Divas Series/Books 1 & 2
by E.N. Joy - And Then I Found You
by Patti Callahan Henry - Angels Walking
by Karen Kingsbury - Animal Farm
by George Orwell - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Saenz - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride
by Cary Elwes - Asylum
by Madeleine Roux - The Beach House
by Jane Green - The Bedlam Detective
by Stephen Gallagher - The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
by Mark Bowden - Blessed Child
by Ted Dekker - The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible … on Schindler’s List
by Leon Leyson and Marilyn J. Harran - Bridge to Haven
by Francine Rivers - by Reason of Insanity
by Randy Singer - Catastrophe 1914
by Max Hastings - Child of Mine
by David and Beverly Lewis - The China Study
by Colin T. Campbell - The Circle
by Dave Eggers - Collected Short Stories: Volumes 1 & 2
by W. Somerset Maugham - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel
by Haruki Murakami - Coming Home
by Greg Ruth - The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook
- Dad is fat
by Jim Gaffigan. - Doll-baby
by Laura Lane McNeal - Don’t Tell Lisa Scottoline
- Dorothy Must Die
by Danielle Paige - Dr. Mütter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
by Christine O’Keefe Aptowicz - Dragonrider
by Cornelia Funke - Emory’s Gift
by W. Bruce Cameron - End of Eternity
by Isaac Asimov - Existence
by David Brin - The Eye of Minds
by James Dashner - Fast Track
by Julie Garwood - Fault in Our Stars
by John Green - The Fifties
by David Halberstam - Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
by Matthew Quick - The Furture for Curious People
by Gregory Sherl - Gaining Ground
by Forrest Pritchard - George Washington’s Secret Six : the Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution
by Brian Kilmeade - Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance that Make a Difference
by Cal Ripken, Jr. & Donald Phillips - Getting things off my chest: a Survivor’s Guide to Staying Fearless and Fabulous in the Face of Breast Cancer
by Melanie Young - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
by Catherynne M. Valente - Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Graceling
by Kristin Cashore - Haunting of Gabriel Ashe
by Dan Poblocki - Have a nice guilt trip
by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella. - Heart of the Matter
by Emily Giffin - Hidden Blessings
by Kimberly Cash Tate - How to Fight Presidents
by Daniel O’Brien - The House of the Four Winds
by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory - The Hurricane Sisters
by Dorthea Benton Frank - I Ain’t Me No More
- If I Had Lunch With C. S. Lewis
by Alister McGrath - The Iron Druid Chronicles. Hounded
by Kevin Hearne - Jungle of Bones
by Ben Mikaelsen - Killing Patton
by Bill O’Reilly - Knitting Diaries
by Debbi Macomber - The Last Original Wife
by Dorothea Benton Frank - Lawless
by Jeffrey Salane - Lawrence in Arabia
by Scott Anderson - Leaving time
by Jodi Picoult - A Library Book for Bear (Bear and Mouse)
by Bonny Becker - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson - The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
by Louise Penny - The Martian
by Andy Weir - M.O.M. (Mom Operating Manual)
by Doreen Cronin - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs - More Than I Can Bear
by E. N. Joy - Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss - The Naming
by Alison Croggon - No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin - The One and Only
by Emily Giffin - One Perfect Spring
by Irene Hannon - One Summer
by David Baldacci - The Orphan Master’s Son
by Adam Johnson - Otis and the Puppy
by Loren Long - Out of My Mind
by Sharon Draper - The Pagan Lord
by Bernard Cornwell - The Paris Architect
by Charles Belfoure** - Peace
by Shelley Shephard Grey - Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky - Prisoner B-3087
by Alan Gratz - The Queen of the Tearling
by Erika Johansen - Reckless, the Racehorse Who Became a Marine Corps Hero
by Tom Claven - The Root Cause
by Izabella Wentz - The Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion - Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane and Entirely Logical Answers to Modern Etiquette Dilemmas
by Celia Rivenbark - Ruth’s Journey
by Donald McCaig - The Secret Olivia Told Me
by E. N. Joy - The Selection
by Kiera Case - The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes - Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman - Seven Things that Steal Your Joy
by Joyce Meyer - The silver Lining : a Supportive and Insightful Guide to Breast Cancer
by Hollye Jacobs. - Someone Else’s Love Story
by Joshilyn Jackson - Somerset
by Leila Meacham - Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good
by Jan Karon. - Strange but True South Carolina: People, Places, & Things
by Lynne Hall - The Stranger on the Train
by Abbie Taylor - Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart - The Target
by David Baldacci - That Certain Summer
by Irene Hannon - The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic
by Emily Barker - These Broken Stars
by Amie Kaufman - Thr3e
by Ted Dekker - Top Secret Twenty-one
by Janet Evanovich - Trapped
by Irene Hannon - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
by Betty Smith - Uganda be Kidding Me
by Chelsea Handler - Under the Wide and Starry Sky
by Nancy Horan - Until Tuesday
by Luis Carlos Montalvan - The Walk series
by Richard Paul Evans - Walking on Water
by Richard Paul Evans - Want Not
by Jonathan Miles - War Dogs
by Rebecca Frankel - We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
