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What Stacks Up

Our short-term exhibition What Stacks Up:

Favorite Books was on display in the Peluso Family

Exhibition Gallery September 6-October 7.

In our society of dedicated readers, one question eternally to Lucky Jim to Singing Family of the Cumberlands. Here are
recurs: if you had to pick one favorite book, which one a few of the recommendations and their beautiful covers; you
would you take off the shelf for the umpteenth time? When can view them all at cityreaders.nysoclib.org/Gallery/84. You
we asked members and staff, their answers were delightful, may be surprised, enchanted, or inspired by the titles we hold
quirky, and often unpredictable, ranging from War and Peace dear to our hearts.

Don Marquis Susan Hill Richard Adams With a Manhattan-dwelling Photo by Harriet Shapiro
The Lives and Times of Archy & Mehitabel Howard’s End is On the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home Watership Down school-age daughter of my
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1933 London: Profile Books, 2009 New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012 own, I also connect with it on
My father introduced me to this book many years ago—the I enjoyed this as much for the content, as for the fact that it I have loved Watership Down since middle school. It was new levels now—for example, the scene when Harriet says
concept of a book written in free verse on a typewriter by a inspired me to begin reading all the books I’ve had on my enormously popular when it first came out, but to me it goodbye to Ole Golly, her beloved nanny, is all the more
literary male cockroach about himself and his friend, a savvy bookshelves for years (decades!) and have been “intending” is still a classic. Although I’m not usually one to enjoy heartbreaking having seen firsthand the bond between
female alley cat, was too good to resist. And I return to the to get to… anthropomorphizing animals, this book touched me to my city child and her first caregiver. The book was quietly
book again and again for humor and wisdom, as well as some MADELEINE SHAPIRO (member) the core, and still does. revolutionary in its time and is relevant and meaningful still.
history of the early 20th century and the challenge of reading LINDA OGDEN-WOLGEMUTH (member) I can’t wait to share it with my daughter.
Archy’s free verse! Lauren Belfer MEREDITH L. STRAUSS (member)
ELIZABETH DOBELL (member) And After the Fire Louise Fitzhugh
New York: HarperCollins Publisher, 2016 Harriet the Spy Betty MacDonald
Andrea Wulf This book bridges the gap between cultures from Nazi New York: Delacorte Press, 2000 Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Germany to present-day New York City. It demonstrates I grew up in a small Southern town, so when I was a child Pictures by Maurice Sendak
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 how meaningful relationships in the past, music, and Harriet’s life in the big city was as fascinating and foreign to New York: HarperCollins Publishers: 1982
Truly a beautiful book about a giant of the 19th century. promises kept can make lives whole and meaningful again. me as that of Pippi Longstocking or Laura Ingalls Wilder. As It’s a really good book. I like it because a lot of things
I swam in the Humboldt Current and marveled at this genius MERCEDES A. YOUMAN (member) an adult, I have come to appreciate the depth and nuance of happen that can’t happen in real life. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
who saw all things connected, even me and the ocean. this coming-of-age novel. It resonates with me still and it is cures children of bad habits. The book makes me feel happy.
She’s magical. I love her.
DIANE FULLER (member) a book I go back to when I need the comfort of an old friend.
FELICITY STRAUSS, age 7 (member)

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