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Our favorite reads...

Teresa Funke:

  • Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden
  • The Shipping News — Annie Proulx
  • Gone to Soldiers — Marge Piercy
  • Empire Falls — Richard Russo
  • Angela's Ashes — Frank McCourt
  • A Walk in the Woods — Bill Bryson
  • Anything by Charles Dickens

Kathy Hayes :

  • An Anthropologist on Mars — Oliver Sacks
  • Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott
  • House — Tracy Kidder
  • If You Want to Write — Brenda Ueland
  • Into Thin Air — Jon Krakauer
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert Pirsig
  • Crossing to Safety — Wallace Stegner
  • Hunger — Knut Hamsun
  • The Book of Ruth — Jane Hamilton
  • Written on the Body — Jeanette Winterson

Luana Heikes:

  • Animal Dreams — Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood
  • Travels With My Aunt — Graham Greene
  • A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain — Robert Olen Butler
  • The Hours — Michael Cunningham
  • Any book by Ruth Rendell

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Paul Miller:

  • Postcards and The Shipping News -- E. Annie Proulx
  • The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen
  • Gertrude and Claudius — John Updike
  • The Fall — Simon Mawer
  • Where Rivers Change Direction — Mark Spragg


Laura Pritchett:

  • Brown Dog of the Yaak: Essays on Art and Activism — Rick Bass
  • The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness or anything else by Rick Bass
  • Prodigal Summer — Barbara Kingsolver
  • Most anything by Virginia Woolf
  • Breaking Clean — Judy Blunt
  • The Meadow James Galvin
  • Les Miserables — Victor Hugo
  • Plainsong — Kent Haruf
  • The Crossing — Cormac McCarthy
  • Anything by Carol Shields
  • Anything by Toni Morrison
  • Anything by William Kittredge
  • High Country News (newspaper), The Sun (magazine), Harpers

Todd Shimoda:

  • The Ruined Map — Kobo Abe
  • Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami
  • All the Names — José Saramago
  • Nirvana Blues — John Nichols
  • Bone — Fae Myenne Ng
  • Under the Volcano — Malcolm Lowry

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