The library where I work is doing a series of displays of various staffers' favorite book picks--and this week is my week! I can't describe what a great feeling it is to walk through the lobby and see so many of my favorite books all together!
Here is the list of titles--for me to remember always and for anyone else who is curious.
FICTION
Baker, Nicholson The everlasting story of Nory
Burns, Olive Ann Cold
Sassy Tree
Bynum, Sarah Ms. Hempel Chronicles
Dallas, Sandra The
Persian Pickle Club
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cranford
White, Bailey Quite
a year for plums
NONFICTION
Book
Lust to Go: recommended reading for travelers, vagabonds, and dreamers / Pearl
Why
do clocks run clockwise? An Imponderables Book / Feldman
Why
don’t cats like to swim? An Imponderables Book / Feldman
On
Looking: eleven walks with expert eyes / Horowitz
Find
the Good: unexpected life lessons from a small town obituary writer / Lende
Tasting
and touring Michigan’s homegrown food / Beeler
The
Hundred Dresses: The most iconic styles of our time / McKean
How
the Post Office created America / Gallagher
The
Story of English in 100 words / Crystal
Etymologicon
/ Forsyth
Founding
Grammars / Ostler
Dawn
light: Dancing with Cranes and other ways to start the day / Ackerman
Hunt for Vulcan / Levinson
The Cloud book: how to
understand the skies / Hamblyn
Collecting
rocks and crystals: Hold the treasures of the earth in the palm of your hand /
Farndon
Last
Chance to See / Adams [author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
Attracting butterflies to your garden / Tampion
Mend
it Better / Roach
Hand
mending made easy: save time and money / Ides
Alice,
Let’s Eat / Trillin
Art
before breakfast / Gregory
Microcrafts
/ McGuire
The
stick book / Schofield
Yellow
Owl’s Little Prints / Schmidt
Little
Ribbon Patchwork and Applique / Title main entry
How
to read literature like a professor / Foster
The
Ode Less Travelled / Fry
Art
and Love / Title main entry
Ink Trails:
Michigan’s famous and forgotten authors / Dempsey [When Ray and I worked at the Western Herald, Dave Dempsey was our editor-in-chief.]
The story of
Charlotte’s Web / Sims
The Egg
and I / MacDonald
What matters in
Jane Austen? / Mullan
My life in
France / Child
Something
incredibly wonderful happens
[Oppenheimer]
Hometown
appetites: The story of Clementine Paddleford, the forgotton food writer who chronicled how America ate [Paddleford]
Encyclopedia
of an ordinary life / Rosenthal
Names on the
land / Stewart
How the
states got their shapes / Stein
Little Heathens / Kalish
