Staff Favorites

A new post each Sunday as we ask our staff.....

"What's Your Favorite Book?"

There's just so many....

The Gallic Wars

An incredible (and real) insight into life in Europe 2000 years ago from a first-hand perspective of a conqueror, dictator, emperor - Caesar. If you want to feel what life, and war, was like then, read this book!

The Iliad

Storytelling at it's best. A story that is thousands of years old, told by a master - Homer. Where demi-gods and warriors battle for glory and life ever-lasting. And the Greek gods play with humanity at their own whims.

Foundation Series

Isaac Asimov. Just read anything by him to be inspired by the future and its possibilities. The Foundation Series is a supremely creative science fiction look at the future of humankind, but through such accessible and readable stories and plots. 

Have Spacesuit, Will Travel

Robert Heinlein. A science fiction tale of child wonder and creativity mixed with space adventure. A story that grabs from page one and never lets go, bringing strange ideas comfortably home.

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking. If you ever want to feel that you understand the universe the way a physicist does, then read this book. Mind-bending ideas of how the cosmos really is are presented in such a way that you feel awed and also capable of grasping the nature of nature.

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Earthsea Trilogy

Deep and powerful magic flows through these books, not only in the unique worlds created but through the very magic of Le Guin's carefully crafted sentences and phrases.

Isabel Allende - Ines of my Soul

Just wow! You want history, driving story, strength of character, and a war or two, then this is for you. And, when you read it aloud, it just sounds beautiful.

Jane Austen - Emma

There are sentences in this book that go on for a page. If you want to know what literary looks like, this is it. This book taught me what subtlety of word and gesture really mean - it helped me understand people better.