LIBRARY STAFF CHOICES
FAVORITE TITLES OF 1999

The titles on this list are some of the books that library staff have enjoyed this past year.  Unless otherwise identified, all the titles are fiction, and can be found arranged by the author's last name. Nonfiction, biography, and junior books are noted in parentheses after the title.

Bruce Alexander — Death of a Colonial
Lloyd Alexander — Gypsy Rizka (Junior Fiction)
A. Manette Ansay — Midnight Champagne
A. Scott Berg — Lindbergh (B Lindbergh)
Maeve Binchy — Tara Road
Christopher Bohjalian — The Law of Similars
Mark Bowden — Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (967.7305 BOW)
Marion Zimmer Bradley — Traitor's Sun
Sandra Brown — The Alibi
Lois McMaster Bujold — A Civil Campaign
Bill Bryson — I'm a Stranger Here Myself (973.92 BRY)
Robert Cormier — Frenchtown Summer (Junior Fiction)
Deborah Crombie — Kissed a Sad Goodbye
Ivan Doig — Mountain Time
Roddy Doyle — A Star Called Henry
Joseph Epstein — Narcissus Leaves the Pool (814.54 EPS)
Miriam Estensen — Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land (994.01 EST)
Sharon Flake — The Skin I'm In (Junior Fiction)
Jonathan Gash — The Rich and the Profane
Elizabeth George — In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Margaret Peterson Haddix — Among the Hidden (Junior Fiction)
Thomas Harris — Hannibal
Tami Hoag — Ashes to Ashes
Edward Hoagland — Tigers and Ice (814.54 HOA)
Sue Hubbell — Waiting for Aphrodite (592 HUB)
Wayne Johnston — The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Jan Karon — A New Song
Barbara Kingsolver — The Poisonwood Bible
Caroline Knapp — Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs (636.7088 KNA)
Erik Larson — Isaac's Storm (976.4139 LAR)
Frank McCourt — ‘Tis (B McCourt)
Alice McDermott — Charming Billy
Fern Michaels — Yesterday
Walter Mosley — Walkin' the Dog
Walter Dean Myers — Monster (Young Adult Fiction)
Elizabeth M. Norman — We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese (940.5475 NOR)
Marge Piercy — Three Women
Terry Pratchett — Carpe Jugulum
Nora Roberts — River's End
Ann B. Ross — Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
J.K. Rowling — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Junior Fiction)
J.K. Rowling — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Junior Fiction)
J.K. Rowling — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Junior Fiction)
Barry Unsworth — Losing Nelson
Jane Vandenburgh — The Physics of Sunset
Jeanette Winterson — The World and Other Places
Richard Zitrin — The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer (174.3 ZIT)

(B. Trott 12/99)

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