“John Scalzi's 'The Android's Dream.' It's a futuristic sci-fi novel about a man searching for genetically engineered sheep to avoid an interspecies war with aliens.”

— Carmela Feigenbaum, inventory merchandiser, Lawrence

“'The Long Goodbye,' by Raymond Chandler. Like most of his stories, it kind of unfolds. The main character meets a man in a bar, one thing leads to another, and he ends up in search of a murderer.”

— Reece Wiley, employment consultant, Lawrence

“'She's Come Undone,' by Wally Lamb. It's about a girl's struggle with her self-image, weight issues and learning to be comfortable with herself.”

— Katie Danon, personal caregiver, Lawrence

“'Where's the Mango Princess?,' by Cathy Crimmins. It's about a man with a traumatic brain injury, and he and his wife battling their HMO to get the care he needs.”

— Natalie Donovan, transitional living specialist, Lawrence

“'The Evil that Men Do,' by Stephen Michaud and Roy Hazelwood, who was an FBI profiler, and it's a compilation of forensic cases that he worked on over the years.”

— Mitch Near, writer, Eudora