Staff Recommendations

Looking for your next read? Want to know what we’re reading? You’ve come to the right spot. Here, staff members from every department recommend some of their favorite reads!

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Audience
Genre
Reviewer

Reincarnation Blues

by Michael Poore

Everyone gets 10,000 tries to live a perfect life or they face oblivion and Milo is closing in on 10,000.  I had no expectations for this book when I picked it up.

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

How have I never read this book before? Published first in 1959, Flowers for Algernon is a sometimes-banned book that you may have read in high school.

Beautyland

by Marie-Helene Bernito

A story of humanity in a simple philosophic trope. Easy to read, but you will find yourself wanting to tab this book with all your exclamation marks and go back and re-read passages that just WOWed you.

Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel

Can the apocalypse be peaceful?  Set in a world where a virus has wiped out the vast majority of the population.

I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

Have you ever read a book that you couldn't decide whether to rate a 1 or a 5? Try this one! I Who Have Never Known Men is one of the darkest, bleakest, most haunting dystopian fiction books I've ever read.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

An incredible and hysterical "road trip" across the galaxy.  A great read for anyone who enjoys humor, absurd stories, and musings about the meaning of life.