The Staunton Stack: Customer Picks That Wow
- Staunton Books & Tea
- May 18
- 2 min read
On April 26, we celebrated the anniversary of Staunton Books & Tea with something close to our hearts—community and conversation. As part of the festivities, we invited you, our readers and visitors, to share the books you love and would recommend to others. The result? A rich and thoughtful list spanning genres, generations, and reading tastes.

Below, you’ll find the full list of your recommendations, sorted by category. While we don’t typically carry children’s and young adult titles in the shop, we were delighted to see so many young readers take part in this shared moment of literary joy. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
Nonfiction
Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesto – Ina May Gaskin
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Caste – Isabel Wilkerson
Educated – Tara Westover
How to Live in a Chaotic Climate – Aimee Lewis Reau, Chelsie Rivera, LaUra Schmidt
Humankind: A Hopeful History – Rutger Bregman
Impact Networks – David Ehrlichman
M Train – Patti Smith
On Freedom – Timothy D. Snyder
The Silver Book – Olivia Laing
The State and Revolution – Vladimir Lenin
Fiction
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Blood Mercy – Vela Roth
Call Me by Your Name – André Aciman
Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
Dune – Frank Herbert
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Fae Isles Series – Lisette Marshall
The Favorites – Layne Fargo
The Foundation series – Isaac Asimov
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
Green Angel – Alice Hoffman
It – Stephen King
The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
Mercy Thompson Series – Patricia Briggs
Monstrilio – Gerardo Sámano Córdova
My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
North Woods – Daniel Mason
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
This Is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Till We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis
Tress of the Emerald Sea – Brandon Sanderson
Wellness – Nathan Hill
The Wheel of Time series – Robert Jordan
The Will of the Many – James Islington
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Young Adult (YA)
Falling Out of Time – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Out of My Mind – Sharon M. Draper
The Penderwicks – Jeanne Birdsall
Running Out of Time – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver
Wonder – R. J. Palacio
Children
A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket
The Baby-Sitters Club – Ann M. Martin
Chi's Sweet Home – Konami Kanata
The Cricket in Times Square – George Selden
Dog Man series – Dav Pilkey
Flora and Ulysses – Kate DiCamillo
Invisible Emmie – Terri Libenson
The Magician's Elephant – Kate DiCamillo
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
Owl Diaries Series – Rebecca Elliott
Phoebe and Her Unicorn – Dana Simpson
The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams
Wings of Fire – Tui T. Sutherland
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