2009 Staff Book Picks
In late 2009, Skokie Public Library staff were asked to select their favorite books read during the year. Here are the results!
Click on the call number to check the status of the book in the Skokie Public Library catalog. And, in case you missed them, it's not
too late to see our Annual Staff Picks for books, films, and music from 2002 to the present!
Berg, Elizabeth. Home Safe . 2009.
Fiction BER Fiction BER Large Type Fiction BER CD Smith, Alexander McCall. The Careful Use of Compliments . 2007.
Mystery MCC Mystery MCC Large Type Mystery MCC CD Smith, Alexander McCall. The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday . 2008.
Mystery MCC Mystery MCC Large Type Mystery MCC CD Smith, Alexander McCall. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate . 2005.
Mystery MCC Mystery MCC Large Type Mystery MCC CD Mystery MCC eBook Smith, Alexander McCall. The Lost Art of Gratitude . 2009.
Mystery MCC Mystery MCC Large Type Mystery MCC CD Smith, Alexander McCall. The Right Attitude to Rain . 2006.
Mystery MCC Mystery MCC Large Type Mystery MCC CD Mystery MCC eBook Smith, Alexander McCall. The Sunday Philosophy Club . 2004.
Mystery MCC Mystery MCC Large Type Mystery MCC CD Selected by Carolyn T.
Cantrell, Rebecca. A Trace of Smoke . 2009.
Fiction CAN Collins, James. Beginner's Greek . 2008.
Fiction COL Mayle, Peter. The Vintage Caper . 2009.
Fiction MAY Fiction MAY CD Schreck, Tom. On the Ropes . 2007.
Mystery SCH Walker, David J. Saving Paulo . 2008.
Mystery WAL Selected by Cecilia C.
Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog . 2009.
Fiction BAR Fiction BAR CD Ferr, Peter. Travel Writing . 2008.
Fiction FER Fiction FER CD Kimmel, Haven. She Got Up off the Couch . 2006.
818.6 K496.sh 818.6 K496.sh CD Roose, Kevin. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University . 2009.
378.755671 R Sheff, David. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through his Son's Addiction . 2008.
362.299 S 362.299 S CD 362.299 S eAudiobook Selected by Cheryl S.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak . 1999.
Fiction-Teen AND Youth Jr High Fiction AND CD Fiction AND eAudiobook Brockman, Terra. The Seasons on Henry's Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm . 2009.
631.584 B Conway, Jill Kerr. The Road from Coorain . 1993.
B C7675.ro B C7675.ro Large Type B C7675.ro Cassette Dallas, Sandra. Tallgrass . 2007.
Fiction DAL Fiction DAL Large Type Fiction DAL CD Fiction DAL eAudiobook Page, Jake. Do Cats Hear with Their Feet ? 2008.
636.8 P Selected by Christie R.
Brown, Dan. The Lost Symbol . 2009.
Fiction BRO Fiction BRO Large Type Fiction BRO CD Greene, Jacqueline Dembar. Meet Rebecca: An American Girl . 2009.
Youth Easy Fiction GRE Mccall Smith, Alexander. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built . 2009.
Mystery MCC Mystery MCC Large Type Mystery MCC CD Swarup, Vikas. Q & A . 2009.
Fiction SWA Fiction SWA CD Swarup, Vikas. Six Suspects . 2009.
Fiction SWA Selected by Dina K.
Horvat, Andrew. Japanese beyond Words: How to Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker . 2000.
495.6 H Pratchett, Terry. Unseen Academicals: A Novel of Discworld . 2009.
Science Fiction PRA Science Fiction PRA CD Roth, Philip. American Pastoral . 1997.
Fiction ROT Fiction ROT CD Fiction ROT eAudiobook Roth, Philip. The Plot against America . 2004.
Fiction ROT Fiction ROT Large Type Fiction ROT CD Savage, Sam. Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife . 2006.
Fiction SAV Selected by Joey L.
Garner, Helen. The Spare Room . 2009.
Fiction GAR Hemon, Aleksandar. The Lazarus Project . 2008.
Fiction HEM Fiction HEM CD Romm, Robin. The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks . 2009.
362.196994 R Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge . 2008.
Fiction STR Fiction STR Large Type Fiction STR CD Fiction STR eAudiobook Fiction STR eBook Selected by Lee L.
Atkinson, Kate. Case Histories . 2004.
Fiction ATK Fiction ATK CD Keyes, Marian. Anybody Out There ? 2006.
Chick Lit KEY Fiction KEY CD Fiction KEY eBook Moriarty, Laura. The Center of Everything . 2003.
Fiction MOR Fiction CD Russell, Karen. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves . 2006.
Fiction RUS Stockett, Kathryn. The Help . 2009.
Fiction STO Fiction STO Large Type Fiction STO CD Selected by Lukie M.
Mazetti, Katarina. Benny & Shrimp . 2008.
Fiction MAZ Waters, Sarah. The Little Stranger . 2009.
Fiction WAT Fiction WAT CD Selected by Marilee H.
Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius . 2000.
B E293.he B E293.he Large Type Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success . 2008.
302 G 302 G Large Type 302 G CD Keret, Etgar. The Girl on the Fridge . 2008.
Fiction KER Levitin, Daniel J. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature . 2008.
781.11 L Wolff, Tobias. Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories . 2008.
Fiction WOL Fiction WOL CD Selected by Maryann M.
Kropotkin, Petr. Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution . 1970.
335.83 K McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses . 1992.
Paperback M Fiction MCC Large Type Fiction MCC CD Fiction MCC eAudiobook Turner, Jack. Teewinot: A Year in the Teton Range . 2000.
508.78755 T Larsen, Nella. Passing . 1986.
Fiction LAR Thomson, Keith Stewart. The Young Charles Darwin . 2009.
576.82092 T Selected by Matt M.
Cleave, Chris. Little Bee . 2009.
Fiction CLE Fiction CLE CD O'Nan, Stewart. Last Night at the Lobster . 2007.
Fiction ONA Fiction ONA CD Fiction ONA eAudiobook Stockett, Kathryn. The Help . 2009.
Fiction STO Fiction STO Large Type Fiction STO CD Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard . 1960.
Fiction TOM Townsend, Sue. Adrian Mole: The Cappucino Years . 2000.
Fiction TOW Fiction TOW CD Selected by Pam W.
Aguirre, Ann. Blue Diablo . 2009.
Paperback A Andrews, Ilona. On the Edge . 2009.
Science Fiction AND Briggs, Patricia. Silver Borne . 2010.
Fiction BRI Robb, J.D. Kindred in Death . 2009.
Fiction ROB Fiction ROB Large Type Fiction ROB CD Shinn, Sharon. Gateway . 2009.
Youth Jr High Fiction SHI Selected by Pat Ga.
Gould, Jonathan. Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America . 2007.
782.42166 B369go Gutcheon, Beth. Good-bye and Amen . 2008.
Fiction GUT Horwitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World . 2008.
970.01 H 970.01 H Large Type 970.01 H CD 970.01 H eAudiobook Penny, Louise. A Rule against Murder . 2008.
Mystery PEN Mystery PEN CD Robinson, Lewis. Water Dogs . 2009.
Fiction ROB Selected by Pat Gr.
Claudel, Philippe. Brodeck . 2009.
Fiction CLA Li, Yiyun. Vagrants . 2009.
Fiction LI Fiction LI CD Simmons, Dan. Drood . 2009.
Fiction SIM Fiction SIM Large Type Fiction SIM CD Stockett, Kathryn. The Help . 2009.
Fiction STO Fiction STO Large Type Fiction STO CD Toibin, Colm. Brooklyn . 2009.
Fiction TOI Fiction TOI Large Type Selected by Roseann S.
Horowitz, Alexandra. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know . 2009.
636.7 H 636.7 H CD IraqiGirl. IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq . 2009.
Teen Non-fiction 956.704431 I PBK McCall Smith, Alexander. La's Orchestra Saves the World . 2009.
Fiction MCC Fiction MCC Large Type Fiction MCC CD Silva, Daniel. The Defector . 2009.
Fiction SIL Fiction SIL Large Type Fiction SIL CD Winspear, Jacqueline. Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel . 2009.
Fiction WIN Fiction WIN Large Type Fiction WIN CD Selected by Sharon W.
Barbery, Muriel. The Elegance of the Hedgehog . 2008.
Fiction BAR Fiction BAR CD Donegan, Patricia. Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart . 2008.
808.8141 H Grandin, Greg. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City . 2009.
307.7680981 G Ogawa, Yoko. The Housekeeper and the Professor . 2009.
Fiction OGA Pakula, Hannah. The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China . 2009.
B C53232pa Selected by Sheila D.
Harwood, John. Ghost Writer . 2004.
Fiction HAR Holmes, Hannah. The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself . 2008.
612 H 612 H CD Littell, Jonathan. The Kindly Ones . 2009.
Fiction LIT Fiction LIT eBook Mazzuchelli, David. Asterios Polyp . 2009.
Adult Graphic Novel 741.5973 MAZ Wilson, A.N. Winnie and Wolf . 2008.
Fiction WIL Selected by Steven J.
Benioff, David. City of Thieves . 2008.
Fiction BEN Fiction BEN Large Type Fiction BEN CD Fiction BEN eAudiobook Kidder, Tracy. Strength in What Remains . 2009.
305.896 K Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth . 2008.
Fiction LAH Fiction LAH CD Shaffer, Mary and Annie Barrows. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society . 2008.
Fiction SHA Fiction SHA Large Type Fiction SHA CD Fiction SHA eAudiobook Fiction SHA eBook Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge . 2008.
Fiction STR Fiction STR Large Type Fiction STR CD Fiction STR eAudiobook Fiction STR eBook Selected by Terry R.
Cooke, Darwyn. Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter . 2009.
Graphic Novel 741.5971 COO v.1 Cullen, Dave. Columbine . 2009.
373.78882 C 373.78882 C CD Lockhart, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks . 2009.
Youth Jr High Fiction Youth Jr High Fiction CD Youth Jr High Fiction eAudiobook Youth Jr High Fiction Digital Player McDougall, Christopher. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen . 2009.
796.424 M Piazza, Tom. City of Refuge . 2009.
Fiction PIA Selected by Toby G.
