Staff Picks
meet the magpies and browse our fav books
julie 🍄 (bookseller)
Julie (she/her) is a knitter, weaver, and self-proclaimed reality tv anthropologist.
She loves sparse, detached, sad prose, and is always on the hunt for good texts about craft.
Ask her about Iris Murdoch!
Abigail
Magda Szabó, Len Rix
Another Word for Love
Carvell Wallace
Clear
Carys Davies
Gliff
Ali Smith
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Irene Solà
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Recognizing the Stranger
Isabella Hammad
Rescue Me
Margret Grebowicz
Softness
Jean Oberlander
The Bell
Iris Murdoch
The Catch
Yrsa Daley-Ward
The Lack of Light
Nino Haratischwili
The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch
There's Always This Year
Hanif Abdurraqib
To Anyone Who Ever Asks
Howard Fishman
moriah 🌾 (bookseller)
Moriah (she/her/wiya) is a graduate student who will read almost anything.
She likes literary fiction, romance, and Maggie O'Farrell. Talk to her about Hamnet at your own risk.
When she's not at work (work too, tbh), she beads, watches too much TikTok, and loves hot gossip (please).
A Steady Brightness of Being
Sara Sinclair, Stephanie Sinclair
Bead Talk
Carmen L. Robertson, Judy Anderson, Katherine Boyer
Cousin Bear Comes to Visit
Halie Finney
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
Love Is a War Song
Danica Nava
Mate
Ali Hazelwood
Milo the Knight
Grégoire Laforce
Minor Black Figures
Brandon Taylor
Minor Rapture
Makda Mulatu
Promise Me Sunshine
Cara Bastone
Recognizing the Stranger
Isabella Hammad
The Knight and the Moth
Rachel Gillig
The Trees
Percival Everett
Tusk Love
Thea Guanzon
leah 🌲 (bookseller)
Leah (they/she) is a student and occasional writer, who will try any book once (or twice).
They love poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs. She loves daydreaming, "bad" television, and Mill Creek Ravine.
Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
Bluff
Danez Smith
Crohnic
Jason Purcell
Minor Rapture
Makda Mulatu
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Poukahangatus
Tayi Tibble
Say Fire
Selma Asotić
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke
Sourdough Infinity
Emily Hoven
South Side of a Kinless River
Marilyn Dumont
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth
The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The World After Rain
Canisia Lubrin
Theory of Water
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang