Gallery of Staff Picks

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You can find our most recent staff picks below, as well as the most recent staff picks from our booksellers.

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Our Recent Staff Picks

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Good Night, Irene: A Novel By Luis Alberto Urrea Cover Image
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The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays By Kelly McMasters Cover Image
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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Cover Image
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The Book of Stolen Dreams By David Farr Cover Image
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Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir By Lucinda Williams Cover Image
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I Kick and I Fly By Ruchira Gupta Cover Image
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The Fastest Tortoise in Town By Howard Calvert, Karen Obuhanych (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Chlorine: A Novel By Jade Song Cover Image
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers By Jesse Q. Sutanto Cover Image
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann Cover Image
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Going Zero: A Novel By Anthony McCarten Cover Image
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The Lioness of Boston By Emily Franklin Cover Image
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Death of the Great Man: A Novel By Peter D. Kramer Cover Image
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Big Tree By Brian Selznick, Brian Selznick (Illustrator) Cover Image
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White Cat, Black Dog: Stories By Kelly Link, Shaun Tan (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Spin By Rebecca Caprara Cover Image
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Red on Red: Liverpool, Manchester United and the Fiercest Rivalry in World Football By Phil McNulty, Jim White Cover Image
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Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age By Katherine May Cover Image
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Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery By Margot Douaihy Cover Image
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Linus By Stuart Hausmann, Stuart Hausmann (Illustrator) Cover Image

Jennifer - Mystery, Literary Fiction, Science & Humor

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Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir By Lucinda Williams Cover Image
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Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi By Diane Borsato, Kelsey Oseid (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Novel By Benjamin Stevenson Cover Image
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Stuff They Don't Want You to Know By Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, Noel Brown Cover Image
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Lavender House: A Novel By Lev AC Rosen Cover Image
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The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories By Jess Walter Cover Image
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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection (Miss Marple Mysteries #13) By Agatha Christie Cover Image
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The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty By Sy Montgomery Cover Image

Andrew - World History/Classics, SciFi/Fantasy & Historical Fiction

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Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future By Danielle Clode Cover Image
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Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes By Travis Baldree Cover Image
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands By Kate Beaton Cover Image
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks By Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Image
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch By Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Cover Image
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium By Barry Strauss Cover Image
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The Nineties: A Book By Chuck Klosterman Cover Image
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch By Mary Lefkowitz (Editor), James Romm (Editor) Cover Image

Chris - History, Story Time

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Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain By Charles Leerhsen Cover Image
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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution By Elie Mystal Cover Image
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Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide and Month-By-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods, and Marshes of New England By Mary Holland Cover Image
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Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America By Sherrod Brown Cover Image
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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom By H. W. Brands Cover Image
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The Book of V.: A Novel By Anna Solomon Cover Image
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Heirs of the Founders: Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants By H. W. Brands Cover Image
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The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe By David I. Kertzer Cover Image

Cristina - Children's Books, YA, Scifi/Fantasy, Historical Fiction, World History

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The Book of Stolen Dreams By David Farr Cover Image
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The Fastest Tortoise in Town By Howard Calvert, Karen Obuhanych (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Queen Among the Dead By Lesley Livingston Cover Image
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The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine By Katherine Marsh Cover Image
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Beneath By Cori Doerrfeld Cover Image
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Mending the Moon By Emma Pearl, Sara Ugolotti (Illustrator) Cover Image
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What the Jaguar Told Her By Alexandra V. Méndez Cover Image
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A Book, Too, Can Be a Star: The Story of Madeleine L'Engle and the Making of A Wrinkle in Time By Charlotte Jones Voiklis, Jennifer Adams, Adelina Lirius (Illustrator) Cover Image

Percy - Literary Fiction, Science & Nature Writing & Gritty Memoirs

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The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays By Kelly McMasters Cover Image
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I Kick and I Fly By Ruchira Gupta Cover Image
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Go as a River By Shelley Read Cover Image
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The Pearl Hunter By Miya T. Beck Cover Image
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Syntax of the River: The Pattern Which Connects By Barry Lopez, Julia Martin Cover Image
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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees By Helen Jukes Cover Image
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How You Grow Wings By Rimma Onoseta Cover Image
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution By R. F. Kuang Cover Image

Robin - Contemporary Fiction & Children's Books

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A Mouthful of Minnows By John Hare, John Hare (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Aaron Slater, Illustrator (The Questioneers) By Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Time for School, Little Blue Truck: A Back to School Book for Kids By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illustrator) Cover Image
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rAinbowZ (M books: see + read) By Michael Arndt Cover Image
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We Are Inevitable By Gayle Forman Cover Image
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Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts By Jessica J. Lee Cover Image
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Take Me Home Tonight By Morgan Matson Cover Image
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Poppy and the Brass Band: Storybook with 16 musical instrument sounds (Poppy Sound Books) By Magali Le Huche (Illustrator) Cover Image

Susan - Literary Fiction, SciFi/Fantasy, Current Events & Memoirs

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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Cover Image
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs By Sidik Fofana Cover Image
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Upgrade: A Novel By Blake Crouch Cover Image
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The Vanished Birds: A Novel By Simon Jimenez Cover Image
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Ordinary Monsters: A Novel (The Talents #1) By J. M. Miro Cover Image
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Razzmatazz: A Novel By Christopher Moore Cover Image
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Unlikely Animals: A Novel By Annie Hartnett Cover Image
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Manifesto: On Never Giving Up By Bernardine Evaristo Cover Image

Vanessa - Quirky Fiction, Crafts, Cookbooks & Middle Grade Fiction

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Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater By Peggy Orenstein Cover Image
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel By Kevin Wilson Cover Image
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We Spread By Iain Reid Cover Image
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Motherthing By Ainslie Hogarth Cover Image
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I'm Glad My Mom Died By Jennette McCurdy Cover Image
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Mission Vegan: Wildly Delicious Food for Everyone By Danny Bowien, JJ Goode, EdD. Cover Image
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Rick Riordan Presents: The Last Fallen Moon-A Gifted Clans Novel By Graci Kim Cover Image
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Wretched Waterpark (The Sinister Summer Series #1) By Kiersten White Cover Image

Other Booksellers & Guests

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Good Night, Irene: A Novel By Luis Alberto Urrea Cover Image
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers By Jesse Q. Sutanto Cover Image
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A First Time for Everything By Dan Santat Cover Image
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The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe By Helene Stapinski, Bonnie Siegler Cover Image
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Big Swiss: A Novel By Jen Beagin Cover Image
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Code Name Sapphire: A World War 2 Novel By Pam Jenoff Cover Image
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Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater By Peggy Orenstein Cover Image
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City Under One Roof By Iris Yamashita Cover Image

Our Favorite Books of 2021

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The Lincoln Highway: A Novel By Amor Towles Cover Image
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The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery By Richard Osman Cover Image
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Golden Girl By Elin Hilderbrand Cover Image
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The City of Good Death By Priyanka Champaneri Cover Image
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship By Catherine Raven Cover Image
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir By Michelle Zauner Cover Image
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome By Emma Southon Cover Image
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life By George Saunders Cover Image
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Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide and Month-By-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods, and Marshes of New England By Mary Holland Cover Image
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The Storm of Echoes: Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Quartet By Christelle Dabos, Hildegarde Serle (Translator) Cover Image
Taking Up Space By Alyson Gerber Cover Image
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Aaron Slater, Illustrator (The Questioneers) By Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illustrator) Cover Image