Library Notes

Tucked away on the second floor is our popular reading collection. Housed in Dollie’s Corner the collection includes books from the New York Times bestseller lists as well as books from various genres including mysteries, science-fiction, romance, biographies, westerns, and staff selections.

Listed below are the most popular books published in 2005 in order of how often they were checked out from Dollie's Corner.

Fiction

Harry Potter and the half-blood prince / J. K. Rowling PZ 7 R79835 Half 2005
The broker / John Grisham PS 3557 R5355 B76 2005
The mermaid chair / Sue Monk Kidd PS 3611 I44 M47 2005
Pearl / Mary Gordon PS 3557 O669 P43 2005
Lost in the forest / by Sue Miller PS 3557 O669 P43 2005
With no one as witness / Elizabeth George PS 3557 E478 W58 2005
Cold service / Robert B. Parker PS 3566 A686 C65 2005
On beauty: a novel / by Zadie Smith PR 6069 M59 O5 2005
Puppet / by Joy Fielding PR 9199.3 F518 P85 2005
True believer / Nicholas Sparks PS 3569 P363 T78 2005

Non-fiction

The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman HM 846 F74 2005
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond HN 13 D5 2005
1776 / David McCullough E 208 M396 2005 8
In the rose garden of the martyrs: a memoir of Iran / Christopher de Bellaigue DS 259.2 D43 2005
Bob Greene's total body makeover / Bob Greene RA 776 G7895 2005
Squandered victory: the American occupation and bungled effort to bring democracy to Iraq / Larry Diamond DS 79.76 D53 2005
Blowing my cover: my life as a C.I.A. spy / Lindsay Moran UB 271 U52 M67 2005
The city of falling angels / John Berendt DG 674.2 B47 2005
Our endangered values: America's moral crisis / Jimmy Carter HN 90 M6 C37 2005
On grief and grieving: finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss / Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler BF 575 G7 K82 2005

Staff Recommendations

Here are titles recommended by our staff that were published in 2005. All titles can be found in Dollie’s Corner.

Time Bites: Views and Reviews / Doris Lessing PR 6023.E833
A collection of essays by one of Great Britain’s foremost authors. While primarily writing about famous (Tolstoy) and not so famous (Walter de la Mare) authors, this volume contains pithy essays on politics and social issues, as well as observations on everyday life - Cheryl Powell, Galter Health Sciences Library.

Memories of my melancholy whores / Gabriel Garcia Márquez PQ 8180.17 A73 M4613 2005
On the eve of his 90th birthday, a solitary bachelor decides to indulge himself with an evening of carefree sex with an adolescent virgin. This libidinous night blossoms into a year of new experiences and relived memories – Barnes and Noble Editors.

Julie and Julia / Julie Powell TX649.P66 A3 2005
Julie Powell, turning 30 and stuck in a dead-end job, decided on a whim to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking over the course of one year - Cheryl Powell, Galter Health Sciences Library.

Thirteen Steps Down / Ruth Rendell PR 6068 E63 T47 2005
Ruth Rendell’s psychological thriller weaves an intricate web of connections that eventually leads to murder. The author of the popular Inspector Wexford series is at the top of her game here - Linda O'Dwyer, Galter Health Sciences Library

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Essays / David Sedaris PS 3569 E314 D7 2004
Like his earlier performances, the essays are sardonic, funny and wry, but at the same time there is a new strain of introspection that makes for a book with more emotional resonance, a more complex aftertaste. The embarrassments of adolescence, the difficulties of connecting, the sense of being a perpetual outsider—these perennial themes of the author are not simply played for self-deprecating laughs in this volume, but are made to yield a more Chekhovian brand of comedy - Michiko Kakutan, New York Times.