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Staff Picks Archives
Staff Pick Archives 2009

January/February
The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman (illustrated by Gris Grimley)
Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon
The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
Resort to Murder by Carolyn Hart
Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies
Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
Spook Country by William Gibson
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
The Merchant’s War by Charles Stross
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
Staff Pick Archives 2008

November/December
Malazan Book of the Fallen #1: Gardens Of The Moon by Steven Erikson
Ghost Walk by Brian Keene
Merchant Princes #3: The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron & Bret Witter Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception by Maggie Stiefvater
Saving Cascadia by John J. Nance
Stiffs and Swine by J.B. Stanley
Valhalla by Tom Holt
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
Agate by Joy Morgan Dey and Nikki Johnson
The Haunted Looking Glass by Edward Gorey
September/October
The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
The Hidden Family by Charles Stross
Die Trying by Lee Child
City Of Saints And Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey
Little Shop of Murders by Susan Goodwill
Interworld by Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
The Gingerbread Girl by Stephen King
July/August
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Blood Memory by Greg Iles
Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans
Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey

Watchers by Dean Koontz
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Family Trade by Charles Stross
Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece
Promises To Keep by Charles De Lint
Severance Package by Duane Swierczynski
Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
May/June
Signal To Noise by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
King Rat by China Mieville
The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks
The Power Of The Dog by Don Winslow
The Hades Project by Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore
The Mist by Stephen King
Warriors #1: The Lost Warrior by Erin Hunter
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Six of One by Rita Mae Brown
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov
Firebird by Mercedes Lackey
The Tangle Box by Terry Brooks
The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley
March/April
The Twits by Roald Dahl
Magic Kingdom For Sale by Terry Brooks
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny
Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
Backstabber by Tim Cockey
Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite
A Diet Of Treacle by Lawrence Block
Blaze by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
Year Zero by Jeff Long
The Man with a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
Stinger by Robert R. McCammon
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
8.4 by Peter Hernon
January/February
The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On by Dennis Diclaudio
The Heroines by Eileen Favorite
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Mamur Zapt & the Return of the Carpet by Michael Pearce
Forty Signs Of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
Half The Blood Of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston
The Ivory And The Horn by Charles De Lint
Tithe by Holly Black
Nextwave Agents of H.A.T.E. Vol. 1: This Is What They Want by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen
The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Redwall by Brian Jacques
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Staff Pick Archives 2007

November/December
Scalped Vol. 1: Indian Country by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera
The Book Of Three by Lloyd Alexander
California Fire and Life by Don Winslow
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
The Burglar In The Library by Lawrence Block
Olivia by Ian Falconer
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Bardic Voices by Mercedes Lackey
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Journey Into Darkness by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
The Last Ship by William Brinkley
Wil's Bones by Kevin Bowen
Norway to Hide by Maddy Hunter
What Pets Do While You're at Work by Jason Bergund & Bev West
September/October
The Wicked History of the World by Terry Deary
The Murderer Said Shalom by Leonard Stein
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
Rules of Prey by John Sandford
Under My Roof by Nick Mamatas
A Rage In Harlem by Chester Himes
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
A Giraffe and a Half by Shel Silverstein
July/August

Another Fine Myth / Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Widdershins by Charles De Lint
Runny Babbit by Shel Silverstein
Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Right Hand of Amon by Lauren Haney
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Watchers by Dean Koontz
Speak Of The Devil by Richard Hawke
Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale
The Vengeful Virgin by Gil Brewer
Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
Transmetropolitan: Lust For Life by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson

May/June

A Spell For Chameleon by Piers Anthony
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick
Dune by Frank Herbert
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have by Dennis Diclaudio
Tight as a Tick by Toni L. P. Kelner
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
Two For The Money by Max Allan Collins
Ghoul by Brian Keene

Breakfast With The Ones You Love by Eliot Fintushel
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
March/April
Tapping The Dream Tree by Charles De Lint
Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
The Case Of The Missing Books by Ian Sansom
DMZ Vol. 2: Body Of A Journalist by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli
Death of a Dreamer by M. C. Beaton
Murder She Meowed by Rita Mae Brown
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
Murder Makes a Pilgrimage by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
The Young Widow by Cassandra Chan
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Murder of a Real Bad Boy by Denise Swanson
Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews
Heartlight by T. A. Barron
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
January/February
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Whiskey Straight Up by Nina Wright
The Dresden Files #1: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint
Black And Blue by Ian Rankin
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
No Dominion by Charlie Huston
And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander
Murder on Monday by Ann Purser
Fall of a Philanderer by Carola Dunn
Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
Shoulder the Sky by Ann Perry


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