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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   |  Dia   |  Don   |  Elaine   |  Elaine Kahn   |  Garrett   |  Gent   |  Jeff   |  Jolene   |  Layla   |  Linda   |  Lawrence   |  Maia   |  Matt   |  Nancy   |  Paul   |  Peter   |  Scott   |  Stacey   |  Tân

<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>     sort list by author | publication date The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath A powerful, haunting story of youth and despair. —Recommended by Maia, City Lights Books. Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown... Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking Philippe Coudray The silly logic of a very serious bear! Benjamin Bear does everything in his own funny way, whether it's drying dishes on a rabbit's back or throwing a ball at a friend to make him play. In this series of gags starring a very loopy bear... The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard J. G. Ballard First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily... Bicycle Diaries David Byrne David Byrne's travel diaries illuminate the amazing power that dislocating oneself from their homebase has on the senses. His work sends him to cities in the US and around the world, and the visits are anything but passive. Big Machine A Novel Victor LaValle A hybrid of low-lifes and high ideals, his Big Machine runs on suicide cults and the voice of God taking you straight to the bowels of The Bay and the monsters that lurk without and withoin. Hard as a gun-muzzle to the jaw... Big Sur Jack Kerouac An interesting biography of what happens when fame and age taint the dream of being "on the road" in the life of this aspiring poet. The book details Kerouac's descent into alcoholism and hope for salvation. I think this is one of his greatest... The Black Book of Colors Menena Cottin "Thomas says that yellow tastes like mustard, but is as soft as a baby chick's feathers." Words in white on all black pages can be read aloud, as a child traces raised line illustrations (in this case, of feathers) which help the sighted "see"... Black Hole Charles Burns This is a beautifully drawn and eerie novel set in the 1970s. Seattle teens get a disease that transforms them into mutants. Their battle against this and other more normal high school situations, makes for a frighteningly good read. Black Mountain An Exploration in Community Martin Duberman Duberman's unconventional and very smart history is a juicy one for those who care about questions of communal living, pedagogy, and artistic creation. What a lovely, messy experiment. —Recommended by Matt, City Lights Books A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Dave Shelton One of the most charming books I've ever encountered. Just flip through it and try not to smile at the author's whimsical illustrations. (For ages 8 to 12) —Recommended by Jeff, City Lights Books The Bridegroom Was a Dog A Novel Yoko Tawada There is a surreal bawdiness that gives this strange little story the feel of an erotic folk tale. It's easy to get lost in the playful and mischievous world that Tawada develops. —Recommended by Tân, City lights Books The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books The most talked about—and praised—first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother... Brothers The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years David Talbot During the "thousand days of camelot," JFK and his attorney general brother Bobby were not regarded at all as the iconic, mythic wunderkinds they've become. They were weak, pro-detente doves, soft on communism, antithetical to all that was American... The Buddha in The Attic Julie Otsuka In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>