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Elizabeth's Staff Picks Elizabeth’s Staff Picks Available on Hoopla ● Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel ● The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict ● My Southern Journey: True Stories From the Heart of the Stories by Rick Bragg ● Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ● Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ● The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy ● The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy ● Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion ● Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks ● Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher ● Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier ● The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ● Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare ● Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris ● All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott ● Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman ● Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ● Angels in America by Tony Kushner ● The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri ● To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ● August: Osage County by Tracy Letts ● The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel ● Life of Pi by Yann Martel ● All My Sons by Arthur Miller ● Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery ● The Alice Network by Kate Quinn ● Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris ● Just Kids by Patti Smith ● Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence ● The Hobbit, or There & Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien ● Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ● The Color Purple by Alice Walker ● The Once and Future King by T.H. White ● To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf ● The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski Available on Libby/Overdrive ● Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo ● I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ● Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ● The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict ● The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley ● Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ● Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ● The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy ● Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai ● All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ● The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ● Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg ● Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier ● In the Woods by Tana French ● The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ● Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare ● Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxanne Gay ● Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi ● Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris ● The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton ● The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ● Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ● The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson ● Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson ● To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ● The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel ● Life of Pi by Yann Martel ● Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery ● Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty ● Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ● There, There by Tommy Orange ● The Alice Network by Kate Quinn ● Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl ● Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell ● Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell ● Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris ● Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Marta Semple ● The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer ● Just Kids by Patti Smith ● Swing Time by Zadie Smith ● Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence ● The Hobbit, or There & Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien ● The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ● The Color Purple by Alice Walker ● Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward ● The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski .
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