Holiday Recommendations - Fiction

Staff Recommendations

Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

Chronic City is an engrossing distortion of reality where former child actor Chase Insteadman, a naive sponge to all those around him, slowly discovers that "all the world's a stage," but it's hard to know exactly who is pulling the strings.

Chosen by Nathan

City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

Optimus Yarnspinner is a terrifyingly toothy dinosaur, but don't hold that against him. He's really a gentle fellow who dreams of being a writer . . .someday. Unfortunately for Optimus, when he inherits a mysterious manuscript that contains the Greatest Writing Known to Zamonia, he inherits a life-threatening adventure. Well, you can't have everything!

Chosen by Shannon 
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers

We all know and love "Where the Wild Things Are" and until recently have only been able to appreciate it in one way. Along with writing the screenplay for the film, Dave Eggers wrote a novelization of the original children's classic. The novel explores all the aspects of the original that were left up to the imagination and beyond.

Chosen by Kyle 		 Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin

Set in 1176, Franklin's excellent third Mistress of the Art of Death novel (after the Serpent's Tale) finds Adelia Aguilar, a qualified doctor from the School of Medicine in Salerno, in holy town of Glastonbury, where Henry II has sent her to inspect two sets of bones rumored to be those of Arthur and Guinevere. The entire series is a throughly enjoyable and entertaining - a must for fans of historical fiction.

Chosen by Jennifer

 

Other Great Selections


The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Nibble & Kuhn by David Schmahmann
The Sound of Building Coffins by Louis Maistros
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Buffalo Lockjaw
by Greg Ames
A Separate Country
Robert Hicks
The Promised World
Lisa Tucker
Chronic City
Jonathan Lethem
The Day the Falls Stood Still
Cathy Marie Buchanan

War Dances
Sherman Alexie
Invisible
Paul Auster
Home: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
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