Staff Top Reads

Interviewing avid book readers about their favorite books is something to behold - mainly because everyone seems to get freak out when you ask on the spot about their favorite anything.

Well today I went around to all of the workers of Shaman Drum and asked them this question:

"What are your top favorite books of all time and/or top favorite reads now that you would recommend to someone"

And here is the list:

Sue:

Night – Elie Wiesel

Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer

Cynthia:

Then We Came to the End – Joshua Ferris

The Post-Birthday World – Lionel Shriver

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway

Matt:

The Erasers – Robbe Grillet

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? – Joyce Carol Oates

LaTissia:

Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz

Platter of Figs – David Tanis and Alice Waters

The Devil of Nanking – Mo Hayder

Aaron:

The Crying Lot of 49 – Thomas Pynchon

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

Coming Up for Air – George Orwell

Ryan:

Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo

Le Petite Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tom:

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger

100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pete:

Glare – A. R. Ammons

Grey Is Color of Hope – Irina Ratushinskaya

100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Rose:

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings – Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Midaq Alley – Naguib Mahfouz

Meagen:

The Sister – Poppy Adams

Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury

Ms. Hempel Chronicles – Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

David:
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Plainwater - Anne Carson

Liz:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Hercules - Jeannette Winterson
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg

Bob:

House of Rain – Craig Childs

Say You’re One of Them – Uwem Akpan

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

Tyler:

The Club Dumas – Arturo Perez-Reverte

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

Renee:

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

The Father – Sharon Olds

The Drowned Life – Jeffrey Ford

Chris:

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Persuasion – Jane Austen

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Cristina:

Ubik – Philip K. Dick

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

Emily:

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Stiff – Mary Roach

Brain Dead Megaphone – George Saunders

Pat:

The Castle – Franz Kafka

Lifting Belly – Gertrude Stein

The Abortion – Richard Brautigan

Karl:

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki

Mountains and Rivers Without End – Gary Snyder

Babar and Father Christmas – Jean De Brunhoff

Annie:

Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card

Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins

Arcadia – Tom Stoppard

Tasha:

Women of Brewster Place – Gloria Naylor

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Ken Kesey

Angel:

Sula - Toni Morrison
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Sea - John Banville

And the winners seem to be 100 Years of Solitude and Jane Eyre which were both mentioned twice.

I guess it's time I got some reading done....