Whistlestop Bookshop Staff Picks

Jeff Wood The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch David Livingstone:  The Unexplored Story by Stephen Tomkins Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto Bloodroot by Amy Greene The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton Seductive Cinema:  The Art of Silent Film by James Card Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Day of Judgement by Salvatore Satta

Betsy Wood Against Wind and Tide:  Letters and Journals, 1947-1986 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal Letters of E.B. White, revised edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth Just Kids by Patti Smith The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The Man From Glengarry by Ralph Connor Glengarry School Days:  A Story of Early Days in Glengarry by Ralph Connor Cache Lake Country:  Life in the North Woods by John J. Rowlands

Abby Reed, 2005-2006 Employee of the Year Abby Reed Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri White Teeth by Zadie Smith All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Ellie Strand Just Above My Head by James Baldwin Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy The Shadow Lines by Amitov Ghosh Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Lauren Henson Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Kara Eatman, 2006-2007 Employee of the Year Kara Eatman The Last Stand:  Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Gandhi, An Autobiography:  The Story of My Experiments with the Truth by Mohandas Gandhi What is the What by Dave Eggers Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Claire Wilson Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane Miriam's Song by Miriam Mathabane Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi October Sky by Homer Hickam Claire Wilson

Katherine Schlusser The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 28:  Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen The Road by Cormac McCarthy any books by Paul Farmer (subject of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains) any books by Vladimir Nabokov

Brooke Marlin Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Beloved by Toni Morrison A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Grace Moore, 2007-2008 Employee of the Year and 2009-2010 Employee of the Year Grace Moore Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Laura Cleveland   The Pleasures of the Damned:  Poems, 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Elise Bricker, 2008-2009 Employee of the Year Elise Bricker On the Good Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero A Great Unrecorded History:  A New Life of E.M. Forster by Wendy Moffat The Republic of Suffering:  Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust Lives of the Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Persuasion by Jane Austen The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Katrin Haque Possessed:  Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham The Importance of Being Kennedy by Laurie Graham Raquel, The Jewess of Toledo by Lion Feuchtwanger The Loyal Subject by Heinrich Mann Thinks by David Lodge White Teeth by Zadie Smith House Thinking by Winifred Gallagher Viva o povo brasileiro [An Invincible Memory] by Joao Ubaldo Riberio

Kathleen Tiley This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Public Enemies:  America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-1934 by Bryan Burrough The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Once and Future King by T.H. White East of Eden by John Steinbeck the Shannara series by Terry Brooks

Mimi Frohman Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe  On the Road by Jack Kerouac  One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein  Animal Rights by Peter Singer

Catherine Coyle, 2010-2011 Employee of the Year Catherine Coyle The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes more and more of Ray Bradbury The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chboskey Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Ethiopian Tattoo Shop by Edward Hays

Erin Anderson co-winner of the 2011-2012 Employee of the Year Somewhere Inside:  One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Lisa Ling The Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares The Street Lawyer by John Grisham The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Avalon Demetri co-winner of the 2011-2012 Employee of the Year The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Once and Future King by T.H. White The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Chelsie Beck The Blessing by Nancy Mitford The English Governess at the Siamese Court:  Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens The River of Doubt:  Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candia Millard Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens David Copperfield by Charles Dickens All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Sherlock Holmes:  The Complete Novels and Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle We Two by Gillian Gill Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton Mansfield Park by Jane Austen The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Kathryn Crutcher Vipers' Tangle by Francois Mauriac Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse Pensees by Blaise Pascal Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton The Hundred Years War:  The English in France 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward Favorite Poems Old and New edited by Helen Farris The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Confessions by St. Augustine

Sasha Shapiro Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer God is Dead & Everything Matters by Ron Currie, Jr. The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Micala Hotra-Schubert The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon