Staff Recommendations

ByDave Hours Posted on

Disclaimer: These are books we loved. We all have different tastes and interests. Nobody likes Dave’s books…. But you might like Ann’s, or Michele’s, or…

If you have a favorite book recommendation, let us know! Email us at info@hfpl.org.

Library assistant Ann

Ann recommends…

Guncle (Rowley)
The Eyre Affair
Mists of Avalon
The Big Over Easy
The Correspondent
11/22/63
The Beach House
The Summer Girls
The Book Thief
The Golden Compass
The Talisman
The Graveyard Book
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea
Born To Run
Surrender: 40 Songs One Story
Dear Mrs. Bird
Foster
This Is Happiness
The Name Of The Wind
The Skystone
The Time Traveler's Wife
Troublemaker
My Mother Was Nuts
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Witching Hour
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse
Dave - Library Director

Dave recommends…

Ingrid Bitmoji

Ingrid recommends…

Perestroika in Paris
A Man Called Ove
Confessions of a Shopaholic
The Thursday Morning Club
Maisie Dobbs
Finding Dorothy
The Stranger Diaries
Magpie Murders
44 Scotland Street
A Gentleman in Moscow
Bruno, Chief of Police
Dial A for Aunties
The Cold Dish
Fever Beach
Library Assistant Lauren

Lauren recommends…

Done and Dusted (Sage)
The Lust Crusade (Segura)
Ouran High School Host Club
Sailor Moon
Love in Plane Sight (Connoley)
Wolf Worm (Kingfisher)
Fan Service (Danan)
Kit McBride Gets a Wife (Barry)
Cash (Peterson)
The Sea Child (Wilgus)
The Book Witch (Shaffer)
Throne in the Dark (Caggiano)
The Baron's Demons (Elle)
Soulgazer (Rapier)
Heartsong (Wendel)
Death Valley (Halle)
Western Heat (Richardson)
Before I Forget (Hoen)
Assistant to the Villain (Maehrer)
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dinniman)
My Roommate is a Vampire (Levine)
Soul Searching (Sage)
Drive Me Crazy (Dent)
Wild Card (Halle)
Under Loch and Key (Ferguson)
The Change (Miller)

Michele recommends…

I'm Glad My Mom Died
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Careless People
Romantic Comedy
The Last Mrs. Parrish
All the Sinners Bleed
Gray After Dark
All the Broken Places
The River is Waiting
How Can I Help You?
The Push
Don't let him in
Everything is Tuberculosis
The Change
Culpability
The Let Them Theory
Sachi Bitmoji

Sachi recommends…

Sapiens a Brief History of Humankind by Harari, Yuval N
Nexus a Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Harari, Yuval N
Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
Making the Presidency by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
We The People by Jill Lepore
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
James by Percival Everett
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The heaven & earth grocery store by McBride, James
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by Zevin, Gabrielle
Small things like these by Keegan, Claire
Before the coffee gets cold by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
The Thursday murder club by Osman, Richard
The covenant of water by Verghese, Abraham
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
The Invincible Brain by Majid Fotuhi