Brown Bag and Books

Last week the Reader Services Department of Glenview Public Library held a Brown Bag and Books session over lunch in our staff lunch room. While munching on our PB and J or pad thai, we discussed with one another what books we’ve read and enjoyed recently. It’s a good way to get to know staff members from other departments while receiving recommendations for good reads. So here are some of the titles the staff of GPL have on their book shelves:



Fiction:

A Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Wise Man's Fear: a novel by Patrick Rothfuss
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (book 1 of the Song of Ice and Fire series)
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Cutting for Stone by A. Verghese
Room by Emma Donoghue
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Mama does Time: a Mace Bauer mystery by Deborah Sharp
Please Look After Mom by Kyong-suk Sin
The Call: a novel by Yannick Murphy
Sima's Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Theft by Peter Carey


Nonfiction:
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures by Philip Mould
The Invisible Gorilla: and Other Ways our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher F. Chabris
Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
The National Parks: America's Best Idea by Duncan Dayton and Ken Burns
It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy by Laura Notoro
Bossypants by Tina Fey