I have always thought that paradise would be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges

We love to read (obviously) and we love to talk about what we've read. We also encourage our loyal customers to suggest a few of their favorite titles. Some of our recent favorites:

Owner Favorites

  • Ilium & Olympos by Dan Simmons (2003, 2006).
  • The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2006).
  • Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner (2005).
  • Economics For Real People by Gene Callahan (2004).
  • The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud (2003 - 2005).
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2003).
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (2003).
  • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (2001).
  • Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (1991).
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2001).
  • Island in the Sea of Time by S. M. Stirling (1998).
  • Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) by Laurel K. Hamilton (2002).
  • Dead Until Dark (a Sookie Stackhouse novel) by Charlaine Harris (2001).
  • The His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman (1995 - 2003).
  • Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (1999).
  • Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (1997 - 2007).
  • Acorna series by Anne McCaffrey (1997 - 2009).
  • The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg (1993).
  • What Jane Austen Ate And Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool (1993).
  • War For The Oaks by Emma Bull (1987).
  • Faeries by Brian Froud (1979).
  • The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper (1965 - 1977).
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957).
  • The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954 - 1955).
  • Human Action by Ludwig von Mises (1949).
  • Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (1946).
  • The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis (1938 - 1945).
  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux (1911).
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (1905).
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897).
  • L'Île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island) by Jules Verne (1874).
  • Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) by Alexandre Dumas (1844).

Customer Favorites

  • Cindy recommends A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler (1998).
  • ...and Atticus by Ron Hansen (1997).
  • ...and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003)
  • ...and Lying Awake by Mark Salzman (2001).
  • ...and The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis (1943).
  • ...and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847).
  • ...and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989).
  • ...and The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961).
  • Donna recommends A Clue For the Puzzle Lady by Parnell Hall (1999).
  • Harmony recommends Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901).
  • Roshan recommends Watership Down by Richard Adams (1946).
  • ...and Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan Eckert (1971).
  • ...and the Exiles trilogy by Ben Bova (1971 - 1975).
  • ...and the Tripods series by John Christopher/Samuel Youd (1967 - 1988).
  • ...and The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey (1992).
  • ...and The e-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber (1995).
  • ...and Edible & Medicinal Wild Plants of Minnesota & Wisconsin by Matthew Alfs (2001).
  • ...and Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny (1987).
  • Leah recommends The Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook 1969.
  • Maria recommends Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866).
  • Rachael recommends Summerland by Michael Chabon (2002).
  • Christopher recommends Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842).
  • ...and Der Prozess (The Trial) by Franz Kafka (1925).
  • ...and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857).
  • ...and Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (1835).
  • ...and À la recherche du temps perdu (The Remembrance of Things Past, or In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust (1913 - 1927).
  • Vic recommends The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (1949).
  • Teresa recommends The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (2008).
  • ...and Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates (1980).
  • ...and The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye (1978).
  • ...and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1989).
  • ...and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960).