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Staff Book Recommendations

By Carrie

Today the American Library Association (ALA) releases its list of the “Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2008.”  You can view this and other lists of banned and challenged books at the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom’s Banned Books web site.

Speaking of books, as you might imagine, our staff loves to read.  Below are a few of our favorite books and recent good reads.  (And, if you use the links below to purchase the recommended books, the Law School will receive a percentage of the sales!)

• Best book I’ve read lately is Queen of the Oddballs by Hillary Carlip (I also love A La Cart by the same author).  Other favorites: the Harry Potter series, and A War of Witches by Timothy Knab. (Sara Lipich)

• I recently finished The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Very good novel (and many of the main characters are dogs). (Beth DiFelice)

• My favorite book is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.  A comedic spin on the birth of the Anti Christ, Good Omens features a demon who drives an original Rolls Royce and a rare book collecting angel who are quite thoroughly set on averting the apocalypse, because they rather like the world.  If you’re a fan of comedic fantasy/sci-fi, orangutan librarians and undead lawyers, you might also want to check out the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. (Mari Bigler)

• The last really good one I read was Dewey, about a library cat. I think our library totally needs a cat. (Nicole Sandberg)

• The Expected One & The Book of Love by Kathleen McGowan; thought-provoking fiction about the gospels Mary Magdalene & Jesus and descendents of their marriage. (Anon.)

• Naked by David Sedaris, Lamb by Christopher Moore, The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, and The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro. (Carrie Henteleff)

•  Glass Houses by Rachel Caine, Naked in Death  by J.D. Robb, How to be a Villian: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!! by Neil Zawacki and The Villian’s Guide to Better Living by Neil Zawacki. (Mitchell Davidson)

•  Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy, A New Earth by Eckhardt Tolle. (Kerry Skinner)

Full post as published by Ross-Blakley Law Library Blog on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).