Librarian's picks

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One of my colleagues is making up a display of "Librarian's Picks" -- books that we personally enjoyed or recommend.

It was fun picking out a stack of favorites from the shelves for her. She asked for at least three (or more) each of fiction and non-fiction, and of course I couldn't limit myself to that. The selections are partly altered based on what was actually available on the shelf and looked nice enough for a display, so many older classics were disqualified (too worn out looking, alas.)

My Selections were as follows:

Poetry
Selected Poems of Robert Frost
Collected Poems of Robert W. Service
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems / Carl Sandburg
A Shropshire Lad / A. E. Housman
(I also wanted Thomas Hardy, but we apparently don't have him)

Adult Non-Fiction
The Pencil / Henry Petroski
The Nature of Horses / Stephen Budiansky
Sylvia's Farm / Sylvia Jorrin
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain / Betty Edwards
(I also wanted Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, but we don't have it)

Children's Fiction
Charlotte's Web / E. B. White
The Story of Dr. Dolittle / Hugh Lofting
A Wrinkle in Time / Madeleine L'Engle
The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame
Mattimeo / Brian Jacques (I wanted Redwall, but it's missing at the moment)

Adult Fiction
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell / Susanna Clarke
Moo / Jane Smiley
Possession / A. S. Byatt
WLT / Garrison Keillor
The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula K. LeGuin
Going Postal / Terry Pratchett
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile / Verlyn Klinkenborg
(I wanted LeGuin's The Dispossessed, but we don't have it)