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One of the best things about shopping with an independent bookstore is the personal recommendations you get from booksellers. Our staff read across a variety of genres and categories, and we are always ready to tell you about our old favorites and our newest obsessions. Happy reading!

Sunny's List of Picture Books Being Read on Repeat at My House that I DON'T Want to Hide from Harriet

Amos McGee Misses the Bus By Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illustrator) Cover Image
Mr. Watson's Chickens By Jarrett Dapier, Andrea Tsurumi (Illustrator) Cover Image
Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao By Kat Zhang, Charlene Chua (Illustrator) Cover Image
Chrysanthemum: A First Day of School Book for Kids By Kevin Henkes, Kevin Henkes (Illustrator) Cover Image
Friday Night Wrestlefest By J. F. Fox, Micah Player (Illustrator) Cover Image
Strega Nona (A Strega Nona Book) By Tomie dePaola Cover Image
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What Diane OG Read While Sick with Covid

Sisters of the Neversea By Cynthia L. Smith Cover Image
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Attack of the Black Rectangles By A. S. King Cover Image
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Wildoak By C. C. Harrington Cover Image
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A Rover's Story By Jasmine Warga Cover Image
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks By E. Lockhart Cover Image
Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold) By Kelly Yang Cover Image
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Justin's List of Tiny Books that Pack a Big Punch

Binti By Nnedi Okorafor Cover Image
The Whispering Muse: A Novel By Sjón, Victoria Cribb (Translated by) Cover Image
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope By James Crews, Ross Gay (Foreword by) Cover Image
The End We Start from By Megan Hunter Cover Image
The Face: A Time Code By Ruth Ozeki Cover Image
How to Connect (Mindfulness Essentials #8) By Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illustrator) Cover Image
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Sydney's List of Books That Have Been Destroyed By Her "Hot Girl Tote Bag"

The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure By William Goldman Cover Image
Half Sick of Shadows By Laura Sebastian Cover Image
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels #1) By India Holton Cover Image
Book Lovers By Emily Henry Cover Image
The Murder of Mr. Wickham By Claudia Gray Cover Image
The Ex Hex: A Novel By Erin Sterling Cover Image
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Hannah's Reads for a Rainy Day

Northanger Abbey (Penguin Clothbound Classics) By Jane Austen, Marilyn Butler (Editor), Marilyn Butler (Introduction by), Marilyn Butler (Notes by), Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator) Cover Image
Gilded Cage (Dark Gifts #1) By Vic James Cover Image
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) By Charlotte Bronte Cover Image
The Word Is Murder: A Novel (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #1) By Anthony Horowitz Cover Image
Reincarnation Blues: A Novel By Michael Poore Cover Image
The Song of Achilles: A Novel By Madeline Miller Cover Image
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Matilda's Books that Grab You and Don't Let Go!

Scythe (Arc of a Scythe #1) By Neal Shusterman Cover Image
Truly Devious: A Mystery By Maureen Johnson Cover Image
Blackout: A Novel By Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon Cover Image
Mexican Gothic By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cover Image
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue By V. E. Schwab Cover Image
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy By Anne Ursu Cover Image
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Jason's Fantasy Favorites for All Ages!

Paper Bag Princess (Board Book Unabridged) By Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko (Illustrator) Cover Image
Nobody Likes a Goblin By Ben Hatke Cover Image
Dragons in a Bag By Zetta Elliott, Geneva B (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Luck Uglies By Paul Durham, Petur Antonsson (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Underwater Welder By Jeff Lemire Cover Image
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal Series #1) By Jonathan L. Howard Cover Image

Dave's Books He's Reading Because He Is No Longer Intimidated by Translated Works (Thanks to George Saunders), and One Collection of Poetry

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir By Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr (Translated by) Cover Image
Home Reading Service: A Novel By Fabio Morábito, Curtis Bauer (Translated by) Cover Image
Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov By Na Cover Image
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
The Blizzard Voices By Ted Kooser Cover Image

Diane G's Bag of Books That Go Where She Goes!

The Maidens: A Novel By Alex Michaelides Cover Image
The Music of Bees: A Novel By Eileen Garvin Cover Image
Meet Me in Another Life: A Novel By Catriona Silvey Cover Image
Olympus, Texas: A Novel By Stacey Swann Cover Image

Heather's To-Be-Read Pile that is Almost Certainly Going to Fall Over and Crush Her in Her Sleep

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Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe By Neal Shusterman Cover Image
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Galatea: A Short Story By Madeline Miller Cover Image
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We Are the Light: A Novel By Matthew Quick Cover Image
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel By Kevin Wilson Cover Image
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The Golden Enclaves: A Novel (The Scholomance #3) By Naomi Novik Cover Image
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Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius By Nick Hornby Cover Image
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Karen's Books That She Re-Reads When She's Supposed to be Reading New Books

Calvin and Hobbes By Bill Watterson Cover Image
The Age of Innocence By Edith Wharton, Elif Batuman (Foreword by), Sarah Blackwood (Introduction by), Laura Dluzynski Quinn (Notes by) Cover Image
And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie Cover Image
The Night Circus By Erin Morgenstern Cover Image
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prej. and Zombies #2) By Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith Cover Image
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter) By Thomas Harris Cover Image
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Teena's Books She Never Would Have Read (and Loved) if She Had Never Become a Bookseller

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements By Sam Kean Cover Image
The Deep By Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes Cover Image
Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi Cover Image
The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel (Winternight Trilogy #1) By Katherine Arden Cover Image
Gingerbread: A Novel By Helen Oyeyemi Cover Image
The Starless Sea: A Novel By Erin Morgenstern Cover Image

 
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