List #19 Cody Morrison/Sq. Books

Cody Morrison/Richard Howorth/Lyn Roberts: Square Books. Oxford, MS. 38655

Richard Howorth-Square Books owner
Lit by Mary Karr
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan
Rock Springs by Richard Ford
Father & Son by Larry Brown
All God's Dangers by Theodore Rosengarten
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The English Major by Jim Harrison
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson
Erasure by Percival Everett
Freedom by Jonathan Fanzen
The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Typist by Michael Knight
Selected Short Stories by William Faulkner
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Long Last Happy by Barry Hannah
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski

Cody Morrison, buyer at Sq Bks:
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Rides of the Midway by Lee Durkee
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obrhet
Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
Last Days of the Dogmen by Brad Watson
Dino by Nick Tosches
Sent For You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
The Salt Line by Elizabeth Spencer
Joe by Larry Brown

Lyn Roberts, general mangager, Sq Bks
Poachers by Tom Franklin
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Airships by Barry Hannah
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Waterland by Graham Swift
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

I'm trying not to editorialize about the lists themselves but I'm fairly certain this is the first one that contains a book that hasn't actually been published yet. People are all crazed for Jeffrey Eugenides' new novel and it shows here. Square Books is the kind of store that authors, booksellers and readers all collectively swoon over. They have a good thing going.

List #18 Stefan Moorehead

Stefan Moorehead:Unabridged Bookstore. Chicago, IL. 60657
Last Werewolf--Glen Duncan
Visit from the Goon Squad--Jennifer Egan
Tiger's Wife--Tea Obreht
Splendid Conspiracy--Albert Cossery
Lord of Misrule--Jaimy Gordon
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees--Lawrence Weschler
The Pale King--David Foster Wallace
Blood Horses--John Jeremiah Sullivan
Visitation--Jenny Erpenbeck
President is a Sick Man--Matthew Algeo
Conscience--Hector Malot
Forever War--Dexter Filkins
Embassytown--China Mieville
Local--Brian Wood
Sometimes a Great Notion--Ken Kesey
Sound and the Fury--William Faulkner
Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet--David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas--David Mitchell
Wind-up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami
Confederacy of Dunces--John Kennedy Toole
The Ask--Sam Lipsyte
Absurdistan--Gary Shteyngart
Super Sad True Love Story--Gary Shteyngart
Lunatic at Large--J. Storer Clouston
You Shall Know our Velocity--Dave Eggers
On Writing--Stephen King
About a Mountain--John D'Agata
Blankets--Craig Thompson
Bottomless Bellybutton--Dash Shaw
The Scott Pilgrim series--Bryan Lee O'Malley
Savage Detectives--Roberto Bolano
The Hakawati--Rabih Alameddine
Lunar Park--Brett Easton Ellis
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao--Junot Diaz
Freedom--Jonathan Franzen
Tree of Smoke--Denis Johnson
American Salvage--Bonnie Jo Campbell
Brain Dead Megaphone--George Saunders
The Mystery Guest--Gregoire Bouillier
The Language Instinct--Steven Pinker
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City--Nick Flynn
Stanley--Syd Hoff
I Drink for a Reason--David Cross
People are Unappealing--Sara Barron
Neuromancer--William Gibson
2001--Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End--Arthur C. Clarke
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams
Hold Everything Dear--John Berger
The Memory of Fire Trilogy--Eduardo Galeano

This is yet another case where one bookseller(Emily Pullen) pointed me to another. And how about Lawrence Weschler showing up on back-to-back lists? That, friends, is pure goodness.

Also, I'll do my best to get tomorrow's post up as usual but I'll be in the hinterlands of MN wilderness and it may not happen. Do not fear: we shall return.

List #17 Jay D. Peterson

Jay D. Peterson:Magers&Quinn Booksellers. Minneapolis, MN. 55408
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone--Deborah Madison
River Cottage Everyday--Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall
At My French Table--Jane Webster
Best Recipes in the World--Mark Bittman
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees--Lawrence Weschler
River Town--Peter Hessler
The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth--Bill Holm
Eccentric Islands--Bill Holm
The Whale--Philip Hoare
Canoeing with the Cree--Eric Sevareid
Wonder Bear--Tao Nyeu
Invention of Hugo Cabret--Brian Selznick
Book Thief--Markus Zuzak
Charley Harper's ABCs--Charley Harper
Charley Harper's 123s--Charley Harper
Charley Harper's Birds and Words--Charley Harper
Above the River : The Complete Poems of James Wright--James Wright
Four Quartets--T.S. Eliot
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?--Dorothy Parker
Collected Poems of George Seferis--George Seferis
Let the Great World Spin--Colum McCann
Out Stealing Horses--Per Petterson
Gilead--Marilynne Robinson
Home--Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping--Marilynne Robinson
Visit from the Goon Squad--Jennifer Egan
Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol--Nikolai Gogol
Difficult Loves--Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler--Italo Calvino
History of Love--Nicole Krauss
Stoner--John Williams
Paris Review Interviews Vols 1-4--Philip Gourevitch(ed.)
This Side of Paradise--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dud Avocado--Elaine Dundy
What is the What--Dave Eggers
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay--Michael Chabon
WPA Guide to Minnesota--Complied by Federal Writer's Project
Death of the Dream : Farmhouses in the Heartland--William G. Gabler
Gourmet Rhapsody--Muriel Barbery
Heat--Bill Buford
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again--David Foster Wallace
Atonement--Ian McEwan
Basil and Josephine Stories--F. Scott Fitzgerald
When Kafka was the Rage--Anatole Broyard
The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside--Amanda Hesser
Parisians--Graham Robb
Eucalyptus--Murray Bail
Fargo Rock City--Chuck Klosterman
Anything by John Banville
Slouching Toward Bethlehem--Joan Didion
Gerhard Richter's Overpainted Photographs--Gerhard Richter

The store Jay is at is nothing short of an emporium. It's hard to know where to start or end because so much good stuff fills the place.

Jay is one member of a staff that is friendly and helpful and will watch your 4 year-old terrorize the joint(thanks Aaron) as mine did during a wonderful event with John Vaillant.

List #16 Paul Ingram

Paul Ingram: Prairie Lights. Iowa City, IA. 52240

Gunther Grass, The Tin Drum
Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy
Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
G. B. Edwards, Book of Ebeneezer LePage
William Maxwell, Time Will Darken it.
William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Julie Hecht, Do the Windows Open.
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
Sebastian Barry, Long Long Way
Willaim Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
Charles Portis, Masters of Atlantis
Charles Portis, True Grit
Eudora Welty, Collected Stories
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Vilhjalmer Moberg, The Emigrants
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Jim Crace, A Gift of Stones
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson, Home
Joseph Skibell, Blessing on the Moon
Ed Carey, Observatory Mansions
Jane Hamilton, When Madeline Was Young
Herman Mellville, Moby Dick
Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers
James Agee, A Death in the Family
George V. Higgins The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Kent Haruf, The Tie That Binds
William Faulkner, The Unvanquished
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
Annie Dillard The Living
Barbara Gowdy, White Bone
Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Nelson Algren, The Man With the Golden Arm
George Orwell, 1984
Redmond O'Hanlon, Into the Heart of Borneo
Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist
Rose Tremain, Music and Silence
Michele de Kretzer, The Hamilton Case
John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
Jane Gardam, Old Filth
Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan
Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
Aryeh Lev Stollman, The Far Euphrates
Colm Toibin, The Blackwater Lightship

Paul is a book-guzzling tornado of a hand-selling book man. Check out the brief youtube videos of his live shelftalkers. You can access those and lot more of Paul's picks via the website

He pointed me towards Castle Freeman Jr. whose little novels are Maine gothic goodness.

List #15 Tom Campbell

Tom Campbell: The Regulator Bookshop. Durham, NC. 27705

Non-Fiction
--Dispatches by Michael Herr
--Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
--A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
--Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
--The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter
--Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry
--The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh
--Last Train to Memphis; The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
--Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O’Hanlon
--Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
--Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
--Oak: The Frame of Civilization by William Bryant Logan
--At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch
--Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton
--On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
--Ethel and Ernest: A True Story by Raymond Briggs
--Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
--Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson
--The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Fiction
--Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
--The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
--A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
--Little, Big by John Crowley
--Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
--Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O’Brian
--Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod
--If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
--Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
--The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
--The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
--Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
--Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
--Possession by A.S. Byatt
--The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
--The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
--Any Human Heart by William Boyd
--Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
--A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
--Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
--Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
--The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
--War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
--The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
--The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
--Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
--Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
--Last Orders by Graham Swift
--The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
--Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
--The Death of the Fox by George Garrett

When book blogs were just little puppies The Regulator was the very first one I had bookmarked. It continues to be a thoughtful, informative and provocative read.

List #14 Paul Yamazaki

Paul Yamazaki: City Lights Books. San Francisco, CA. 94133

100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE-gabriel garcia-marquez
A SECRET LOCATION ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE-steve clay
AIME CESAIRE: THE COLLECTED POETRY-aime cesaire
ARCADES PROJECT-walter benjamin
ARK OF BONES-henry dumas
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X-malcolm x
BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM-james mcpherson
BELOW THE LINE- sara chin
BETWEEN COVERS-john tebbel
BLACK JACOBINS-clr james
BLACK MUSIC-leroi jones (amiri)
BLUES PEOPLE-leroi jones (amiri)
BROTHERS KARAMAZOV-fydor dostoevsky
CITY OF QUARTZ-mike davis
COMPLETE POEMS OF KENNETH REXROTH-kenneth rexroth
COMPLETE WORKS OF ISAAC BABEL-isaac babel
CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND-lawrence ferlinghetti
DOGEATERS-jessica hagedorn
FACING WEST: metaphysics of indian hating-richard drinnon
FLASH OF THE SPIRIT-robert farris thompson
FOUR LIVES IN THE BEBOP BUSINESS-ab spellman
From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate-nathaniel mackey
GIANT TALK-quincy troupe
GOD'S BIT OF WOOD-ousame sembene
GOD'S CHINESE SON: taiping heavenly kingdom-jonathan d spence
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS-ep thompson
HOWL-allen ginsberg
I HOTEL-karen tei yamashita
KNOWN WORLD-edward p jones
LES MISERABLES-victor hugo
MALCOLM X-manning marable
MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES-robert musil
MANY HEADED HYDRA-marcus-peter rediker-linebaugh
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN-salman rushdie
MOBY DICK-herman melville
MUMBO JUMBO-ishmael reed
MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS-amos tutuola
NO NO BOY-john okada
ORIENTALISM-edward said
RECONSTRURCTION-eric foner
RECYCLOPEDIA-harryette mullen
RIVER OF SHADOWS-rebecca solnit
SALT EATERS-toni cade bambara
SOLITUDES CROWED WITH LONLINESS-bob kaufman
THE LONG GOODBYE-raymond chandler
THELONIUS MONK-robin kelly
ULYSSES-james joyce
UNDERWORLD-don delillo
WAR & PEACE-leo tolstoy
WIND IN THE WILLOWS-kenneth grahame

Is there a more true mecca of American books than this one? I was lucky enough to once have Mr. Ferlinghetti at the register while I shopped there. Paul Yamazaki has been the chief buyer since 1984 and has worked at City Lights for a decade longer. This might embarrass him, but it's true to note that his name is often spoken in a whisper as a sign of respect by other booksellers.

List #13 Stacie M. Williams

Stacie M. Williams: Boswell Book Company. Milwaukee, WI. 53211

Cat's Eye-Margaret Atwood
I Hate to See That Evening Sun go Down-William Gay
Arturo's Island-Elsa Morante
Nine Parts of Desire-Geraldine Brooks
The Best Day The Worst Day-Donald Hall
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Willful Creatures- Aimee Bender
Things That Fall From the Sky- Kevin Brockmeier
Selected Poems: 1945-2005-Robert Creeley
The Art of Living-Epictetus
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness-William Styron
Ghosts of Wyoming-Alyson Hagy
Out Stealing Horses-Per Petterson
The Tsar's Dwarf-Peter Fogtdal
Outer Dark-Cormac McCarthy
Smonk-Tom Franklin
Tales of a Female Nomad- Rita Golden Gelman
Deer Hunting with Jesus-Joe Bageant
Five Skies-Ron Carlson
Serena-Ron Rash
Lipstick Jihad-Azadeh Moaveni
Don't Sleep There are Snakes-Daniel Everett
Canine Body Language-Brenda Aloff
Pack of Two-Caroline Knapp
Coal Black Horse-Robert Olmstead
The Yacoubian Building-Alaa Al Aswany
The Attack-Yasmina Khadra
Blue Latitudes-Tony Horowitz
How Fiction Works-James Wood
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna st. Vincent Millay-Nancy Milford
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and its Women-Alexa Albert
Rapture of Canaan-Sheri Reynolds
Daughters of the North-Sarah Hall
Wake Up Sir- Jonathan Ames
Dogs of Babel-Carolyn Parkhurst
The Killer Inside Me-Jim Thompson
Under the Banner of Heaven-Jon Krakauer
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove-Christopher Moore
When I was Mortal-Javier Marias
Senselessness-Horacio Castellanos Moya
Mariette in Ecstasy-Ron Hansen
When Things Fall Apart-Pema Chodron
A Passage to India-E.M. Forster
The Awakening-Kate Chopin
Mystery & Manners: Occasional Prose-Flannery O'Connor
Arcadia- Tom Stoppard
Numbers in the Dark-Italo Calvino
Collected Letters-Elizabeth Bishop, Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, Yeats, Keats, Welty, Hemingway, Fitzgerald pretty much anyone

We let Stacie cheat a little at the end with the letters because it was so funny and indicative of the problem many of us faced. 50 just isn't that many. Milwaukee has long been a great book, and art in general, town and its been fun to see the several stores rise from the ashes of the Harry W. Schwartz stores. Boswell is one and from there you can jump to Daniel Goldin's blog or the bookseller blog.