Employee Favorites

Kristian’s Favorite Books

I love any type of good book, regardless of genre, but I do really like horror, animal stories (especially horse books), and coming of age stories. 

Check out my Goodreads for more recommendations.

Favorites:

• The Scorpio Races—Maggie Stiefvater
• Lord of the Flies—William Golding
• Pet Semetary—Stephen King
• The Fault In Our Stars—John Green
• Saint Anything—Sarah Dessen
• The Outsiders—S.E Hinton
• The Road—Cormac McCarthy
• The Perks of Being A Wallflower—Stephen Chbosky
• Watership Down—Richard Adams
• Alt Ed—Catherine Atkins
• Seabiscuit & Unbroken—Laura Hillenbrand
• The Hate U Give—Angie Thomas
• Dread Nation—Justina Ireland

Katie's Favorites

I enjoy a variety of genres and read a lot of books recommended to me by other people. But when I do pick up a book on my own, I love when it encompasses a little bit of everything: action, romance, mystery, and some fantasy too.

Check out my Goodreads for more recommendations.

Favorites:

• Red Rising Saga - Pierce Brown
• Sons of Ares graphic novel series - Pierce Brown, Rik Hoskin, and Eli Powell
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians series - Rick Riordan
• A Series of Unfortunate Events series - Lemony Snicket
• Uprooted - Naomi Novik
• Hush, Hush series - Becca Fitzpatrick
• Hope and Red - Jon Skovron
• The Princess Saves Herself in This One - Amanda Lovelace
• Savvy series - Ingrid Law
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
• The Selection series - Kiera Cass
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
• Then, Now, Always - Mona Shroff
• Black Cat manga series - Kentaro Yabuki

Sam's Favorites

I mostly read science fiction/fantasy, but every once in awhile I'll try a mystery or supernatural fiction book (or any book that sounds good).

Favorites:

Anything by Ursula K. Le Guin, especially...

• The Dispossessed
• The Left Hand of Darkness

Anything by Diana Wynne Jones, especially...

• Howl's Moving Castle
• The Power of Three

Also~

• Redwall series by Brian Jacques
• Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
• The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce
• The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• Written in Red by Anne Bishop
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• The Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
• The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Turner trilogy by Cat Sebastian

Manga

• Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
• Bleach by Tite Kubo
• Yowamushi Pedal by Wataru Watanabe
• Ancient Magus Bride by Kore Yamazaki
• Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara
• Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya
• Natsume's Book of Friends by Yuki Midorikawa

Graphic Novels

• Romantically Apocalyptic by Vitaly S. Alexius
• Monstress by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• Beetle and the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
• Valor: Swords & Valor: Wands by Fairylogue Press (with various authors)