Winter Reading 2011
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Staff Picks
In this age of on-line shopping, the gentle art of browsing a bookstore is going the way of 8-tracks and tube tops. One of the more pleasurable pastimes for bookworms is perusing staff picks — those literate love letters penned by bookstore employees, urging upon you a favorite novel. Here are a few suggestions from Eugene’s professional bibliophiles.
Black Sun Books
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein
• The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
• Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. One by Walt Kelly
Smith Family Bookstore
Downtown and Campus picks
Eric Leaf:
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Evon Smith:
• Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill
• Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
• Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Fermor
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game by Ted Richards, editor
Steve Altman:
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
• Foundlings Tale Trilogy by DM Cornish (young adult)
• Hugo Cabret series by Brian Selznick (young adult)
Madeline Moulton:
• Song of Fire and Ice series by George R.R. Martin
• Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
J. Michaels Books
• The Swerve: How The World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
• Rome: A Cultural, Visual And Personal History by Robert Hughes
• Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith
• A History Of The World In 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
• Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore
Tsunami Books
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
• The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes