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Staff Picks

Looking for a good book? Try one of these favorite books of the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library Staff.

Fiction

TitleAuthor
Purple HibiscusChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Moral Disorder: storiesMargaret Atwood
PersuasionJane Austen
The Grace That Keeps This WorldTom Bailey
The Sweet HereafterRussell Banks
Rule of the BoneRussell Banks
Night LightTerri Blackstock
Proven Guilty: a novel of the Dresden filesJim Butcher
Speaker for the DeadOrson Scott Card
The Widows ClubDorothy Cannell
Pope JoanDonna Woolfolk Cross
The Village Bride of Beverly HillsKavita Daswani
Plum IslandNelson DeMille
Killer InstinctJoseph Finder
A Breath of Snow and AshesDiana Gabaldon
Water for ElephantsSara Gruen
A Spot of BotherMark Haddon
Grave SightCharlaine Harris
The HistorianElizabeth Kostova
The NamesakeJhumpa Lahiri
The Mango SeasonAmulya Maladi
DarkfeverKaren Marie Moning
Back RoadsTawni O'Dell
The Lake HouseJames Patterson
My Sister's KeeperJodi Picoult
Plain TruthJodi Picoult
Red LilyNora Roberts
The Shadow of the WindCarlos Ruiz Zafon
Skipped PartsTim Sandlin
Snow Flower and the Secret FanLisa See
the Thirteenth TaleDiane Setterfield
The Blue Bottle ClubPenelope J. Stokes
In the Bleak MidwinterJulia Spencer-Fleming
Once Upon StilettosShanna Swendson
The Christmas HopeDonna VanLiere

Nonfiction

Kate RememberedA. Scott Berg
Bill Bryson's African DiaryBill Bryson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt KidBill Bryson
Magical Thinking: true storiesAugusten Burroughs
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: the rise of feminism, science, and the art from the cults of Catholic EuropeThomas Cahill
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: life, death and sleepness nights in a surgeon's first yearsMichael J. Collins
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: finding and losing myself in booksMaureen Corrigan
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, NewfoundlandJim DeFede
Saving Dinner Basics: how to cook even if you don't know howLeanne Ely
I Feel Bad About My NeckNora Ephron
Blink: the power of thinking without thinkingMalcolm Gladwell
Prisoners: a Muslim and a Jew across the Middle East divideJeffrey Goldberg
The Innocent Man: murder and justice in a small townJohn Grisham
Ghost Map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities , and the modern worldSteven Johnson
Uncommon CarriersJohn McPhee
The Good, Good Pig: the extraordinary life of Christopher HogwoodSy Montgomery
The Measure of a ManSidney Poitier
The Botany of Desire: a plant's eye view of the worldMichael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four mealsMichael Pollan
Where Yet the Sweet Birds SingRichard Quinney
Garlic and Sapphires: the secret life of a critic in disguiseRuth Reichl
Stop Dressing Your Six-Year Old Like a Skank: and other words of Southern wisdomCelia Rivenbark
I Like You: hospitality under the influenceAmy Sedaris
The Caliph's HouseTahir Shah
Treasure Hunt: inside the mind of the new global consumerMichael J. Silverstein
Two For the Road: our love affair with American FoodJane and Michael Stern
Translation Nation: defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United StatesHector Tobar
The Aeneid/translatedRobert FaglesVirgil
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting ForAlice Walker
The Glass Castle: a memoirJeannette Walls
The Woman at the Washington Zoo: writings on politics, family and fateMarjorie Williams
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