Recommended Reading
Staff Picks
Dead Guy's Stuff, Sharon Sloan Fiffer 
Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight For the Soul of Major League Baseball, Howard Bryant
The Carpet Makers, Andreas Eschbach
Wrong About Japan: a father's Journey With His Son, Peter Carey
The Glass Castle: a Memoir, Jeannette Walls
My Flesh and Blood (Video), Jonathan Karsh
The Ancestor's Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Richard Dawkins
Between Ruin and Renewal: Egon Schiele's Landscapes, Kimberly A. Smith
The Queen of the South, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Useful Girl: a novel, Marcus Stevens
Washington's Crossing, David Hackett Fischer
Passing For Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self, Frances Kuffel
An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal, Andrew Schneider 
The Forest Lover, Susan Vreeland
The Wrong Stuff, Sharon Sloan Fiffer
The Power of Appreciation: The Key to a Vibrant Life, Noelle C. Nelson
New Skies: an Anthology of Today's Science Fiction, Patrick Nielsen Hayden
The Elegant Universe (Video), B. (Brian) Greene
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, Will Durant
Recipes From Historic Texas, Linda Bauer
Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things, Wendy Weitman
Women Seeing Women: From the Early Days of Photography to the Present, Lothar Schirmer
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy, Gregory Bassham
Classic Home Cooking, Mary Berry
Naked in Baghdad, Anne Garrels
Ghosty Men: the Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, and My Uncle Arthur, New York's Greatest Hoarders, Franz Lidz
Dude, where's my country? Michael Moore
They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America October 1967, David Maraniss 
Inkheart, Cornelia Caroline Funke
The Dream Giver, Bruce Wilkinson
The Best Things in Life Aren't Things: Celebrating What Matters Most, Joann Davis
Still Life With Crows, Douglas J. Preston
The Mango Season, Amulya Malladi
The Medieval World, Peter Linehan
Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber
Isaac Newton, James Gleick
A Mango-shaped Space: a novel, Wendy Mass
A Piece of Heaven, Barbara Samuel
Custard's Last Stand, Tamar Myers
Really Useful: the Origins of Everyday Things, Joel Levy
Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, Robert Rankin
Cogito, ergo sum: the life of René Descartes, Richard A. Watson
A Passion for Knitting: Step-by-step Illustrated Techniques, Easy Contemporary Patterns, and Essential Resources for Becoming Part of the World of Knitting, Nancy J. Thomas
How to Build Your Own Prize-winning Robot (Science Fair Success), Edwin J. C. Sobey
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell 
Zen Poems, Manu Bazzano
My Mentor: a Young Writer's Friendship With William Maxwell, Alec Wilkinson
The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker
Remarkable Trees of the World, Thomas Pakenham
The Bitch in the House: 26 women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage, Cathi Hanauer
That Pesky Rat, Lauren Child
A Breath of Fresh Air, Amulya Malladi
How to be Alone: Essays, Jonathan Franzen
On the Shoulders of Giants: the Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, Stephen W. Hawking
From Hardtack to Home Fries: an Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals, Barbara Haber
The House on Belle Island and Other Stories, Carrie Brown
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Buffalo Soldier: a novel, Christopher A. Bohjalian
A Painted House, John Grisham
1,000 Mexican Recipes, Marge Poore
The Ascent of Man (Video), Mike Jackson
The Pickup, Nadine Gordimer
The Read-aloud Handbook, Jim Trelease
Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President, James Hatfield
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told: Seventeen Incredible Tales, Lamar Underwood
Gangster, Lorenzo Carcaterra
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Anonymous Rex: a Detective Story, Eric Garcia
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
The 1900 House (Video), Paul Bowler
Fever, 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder: a Hannah Swensen Mystery, Joanne Fluke
October Sky: a Memoir, Homer H. Hickam 
The Story of a Million Years, David Huddle
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus
The Odd Quantum, Sam B. Treiman
Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit: a Midnight Louis Mystery, Carole Nelson Douglas
Night Gardening, E. L. Swann
Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love, Dava Sobel
All the Dead Lie Down, Mary Willis Walker
The House of Sleep, Jonathan Coe
Evening, Susan Minot
There's a Word For it in Mexico, Boye De Mente
I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
Children of God: a novel, Mary Doria Russell
The Ming and I: a Den of Antiquity, Tamar Myers
The Story of B, Daniel Quinn
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow, Tad Williams
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
Material World: a Global Family Portrait, Peter Menzel 
For My Daughters, Barbara Delinsky
Stones From the River, Ursula Hegi
Ishmael: a novel, Daniel Quinn
Beyond beef : the Rise and Fall of Cattle Culture, Jeremy Rifkin
Truman, David G. McCullough
Vigilante Victims: Montana's 1864 Hanging Spree, Ruth E. Mather
I Had a Hammer: the Hank Aaron Story, Hank Aaron
The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got In The Way, Bill Bryson
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Fools Crow, James Welch
Ceremony, Leslie Silko
Chocolate, the Consuming Passion, Sandra Boynton
Sitka, Louis L'Amour
Comstock Lode, Louis L'Amour 
The World According to Garp: a novel, John Irving
The Simone Weil Reader, Simone Weil
Summer of the Monkeys, Wilson Rawls
Danny, the Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
Christina Katerina and the Box, Patricia Lee Gauch
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
The Fates of Illustrious Men, Giovanni Boccaccio
The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
The Fabulous Flathead, J. F. McAlear
Poems, 1923-1954, E. E. Cummings
The Cat That Walked a Week, Meindert De Jong
The War of the Copper Kings, Carl B. Glasscock
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman
Shadows at the Fair, Lea Wait