Rob Picks

As the manager of the Clinton Book Shop, I make it a personal mission to make sure that each book I put into the hands of a reader is one that they will enjoy.  One of my greatest pleasures is when one of our customers come into the shop, after having read a book that I recommended, to tell me they loved it and want another.  Below are just a few of my favorites. 

Hurt Machine (Paperback)

$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781440531996
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Tyrus Books, 12/2011
Gritty crime-fiction that is tactile. You will love everything that Reed Farrel Coleman does.

$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780316129282
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/2011
A.S. King is one of the best Y/A/ authors that I have ever read. Fully engaging, creative, and gutsy.

The Astral (Hardcover)

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780385530910
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Doubleday, 6/2011
I cannot wait to read everything that Kate Christensen has written.

$22.99
ISBN-13: 9780061996054
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Published: Ecco, 2/2011

$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143034902
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2/2005

Absoutley the BEST book I have ever read


The Illumination (Hardcover)

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780375425318
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Pantheon, 2/2011

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780761159254
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Published: Workman Publishing, 12/2010

Just Kids (Paperback)

$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780060936228
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ecco, 11/2010

Horns (Paperback)

$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061147968
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Paperbacks, 3/2011

Fragile (Paperback)

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307394002
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Broadway, 5/2011

Jeannette Walls can write a book that we all will love.  This is the book that you would expect from the author of The Glass Castle.


The Prince of Mist (Hardcover)

$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780316044776
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 5/2010

Ghosts of Belfast (Hardcover)

$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781569476000
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Soho Crime, 10/2009
Brilliant!  Absolutely Brilliant...

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126053
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 4/2008
Never underestimate the power of a young adult novel.  This is a great book.

$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126145
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 9/2008

 


Mudbound (Paperback)

$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126770
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 3/2009

While reading this novel, I could not get Harper Lee's, To Kill A Mockingbird, out of my head


$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780786888764
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Hyperion, 7/2006

If you loved The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, you want to read this book. 


$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781590512739
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Other Press, 11/2007

Difficult to read and even more difficult to put down.  This book will remain with you.  I believe that every teen, over the age of 16, must read this book.


$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307389046
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 5/2011
Edmund White is the best author that too few read.  One of America's greatest authors.

Be Near Me (Paperback)

$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780156033961
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 4/2008

This is a stunning novel that evokes every emotion that one book can.  Beautiful!


$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780979270956
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Busted Flush Press, LLC, 6/2008
Fans of great detective stories will LOVE Coleman's Moe Prager series. I came across this after listening to NPR's Maureen Corrigan review. Corrigan praised Coleman, with just cause.

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307346612
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Three Rivers Press, 10/2007

Child 44 (Mass Market Paperback)

$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780446402392
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Grand Central Publishing, 4/2009
Tom Rob Smith has written what is as close to a perfect thriller as an author can get.  Soon to be a major motion picture.

The Lacuna (Paperback)

$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780060852580
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial, 8/2010

Exley (Hardcover)

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126084
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 10/2010

$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780143118398
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 8/2010

The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)

$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780140067477
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin Books, 7/1983

Put down the self-help books and allow Pooh to teach you all that you need to know.


$12.95
ISBN-13: 9781565125209
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 9/2006