Missy Sanders Majnarich: I've read every Jodi Picoult book written, as a [social worker] the themes all relate to relationships and tensions in life. Best known for Nineteen Minutes and The Pact, more recently Small Great Things on race/supremacy.
Dennis Liming: Wendell Berry. Besides being a great voice for the environmental movement, his fictional series that chronicles the rural town of Port William from pre-Civil War to today is right up there with anything William Faulkner ever wrote. I love his writing.
Amy Balenzano: Patricia Briggs writes great supernatural books. They are all set in cities in the Pacific Northwest, Tri-Cities as home base. She's spoken at Auntie's Bookstore a couple times now, and I've gotten to meet her.
Chris Warren: I really miss Patrick McManus... Great reading on camping trips.
Beth Ann Johnson: Terry Pratchett's Discworld books; anything by Herman Wouk; How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher; anything by David Sedaris; World War Z by Max Brooks — I could go on and on. Pick a fav? Depends on the direction of the wind.
Mary Baker: David Sedaris. So relatable, so funny. I got my mom hooked on his books, which is a sweet memory I have of my mom.
Kelly Stopher: Pat Conroy: Lords of Discipline, South of Broad, Prince of Tides, The Great Santini.
Kate Rau: Authors? So many! Sherman Alexie. Brady Udall. Jon Krakauer. Terry Tempest Williams. Pam Houston. Domingo Martinez. Jess Walter. Annie Dillard. Jonathan Safran Foer. Favorite book: Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams.
Neal Schindler: Kurt Vonnegut balanced satire and humanism, absurdity and poignancy better than most.
Cynthia Rowe: Swan Song by Robert McCammon and Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. ♦
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