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Staff Recommendations A listing of current favorites, recommended by the bookstore staff. Check back for new recommendations each month as we bring you the best of what we're reading. Browse by title, author or staff member!   Anah   |  Andy   |  Don   |  Elaine   |  Elaine Kahn   |  Garrett   |  Gent   |  Jeff   |  Jolene   |  Layla   |  Linda   |  Lawrence   |  Maia   |  Matt   |  Nancy   |  Paul   |  Peter   |  Scott   |  Stacey   |  Tân   |  Vanessa

<<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>     sort list by title | author | publication date The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles This book is brave, imaginative, and brutal; and just when you think it's gone far enough, it goes farther. Bowles spent most of his life in North Africa, but his genius is not in his familiarity with the culture; rather, it's in brilliantly recreating... Open City Teju Cole Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process... Gods Without Men Hari Kunzru Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed... The Continental Op Stories Dashiell Hammett Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the... The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration... Orange Sunshine The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World Nicholas Schou A startling, secret history of the "Hippie Mafia"—a group of surfer smugglers out of Laguna Beach who were responsible for the majority of the hash and LSD that literally fueled the psychedelic revolution. —Recommended by Andy, City Lights Books Black Dahlia Avenger The True Story Steve Hodel This is so much more than a solution to a sixty-year-old mystery. Yes, the crime has, in my estimation, been solved. Even James Ellroy, whose mother may have been one of the perpetrator's victims, agrees. What is unsettling here is the author's journey... Los Angeles Stories Ry Cooder Available Now: World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories. The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Recommended by Tân, City Lights Books. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's... Suttree Cormac McCarthy McCarthy's last book set in the South before he moved his focus to the West, this is an emotionally opaque but terribly powerful portrait of a damaged man. This book teaches by a sort of unrelenting immersion; plunging you into a world of vivid squalor... The Magicians A Novel Lev Grossman A wonderfully-written novel of fantasy for adults. For any of fan of Narnia, Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings, but with a drunken, drugged-out edge. The true-to-life characters take you through the whirlwind of going to a university for magic... Churchill's Secret War The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II Madhusree Mukerjee A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements... The Savage Detectives A Novel Roberto Bolaño The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Marquez of his generation, but his novel The Savage Detectives is a lot closer to Y Tu Mamá También than it is to One Hundred Years of Solitude. Hilarious and sexy, meandering and... Super Sad True Love Story A Novel Gary Shteyngart Did the opposable thumb evolve to text? Happy to find that I'm not the only one contemplating such serious matters. Shteyngart's new novel is sad, but also very heartwarming to those of us skeptical of, and concerned about, the role that electronic... <<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>