2005 Winter | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

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2005 Winter

Recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

Barbara Hoffert, Editor of the Book Review at Library Journal

Fiction

Image of The Sea (Man Booker Prize)
Author: John Banville
Publisher: Knopf (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 208 pages

Image of The Tattoo Artist: A Novel
Author: Jill Ciment
Publisher: Pantheon (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages

Image of Beasts of No Nation: A Novel
Author: Uzodinma Iweala
Publisher: HarperCollins (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 142 pages

Image of Veronica: A Novel
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages

Image of Seven Lies: A Novel
Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: W. W. Norton (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages

Image of Vita: A Novel
Author: Melania G. Mazzucco
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages

Image of The Whale Caller: A Novel
Author: Zakes Mda
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 230 pages

Image of The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear
Author: Walter Moers
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 704 pages

Image of On Beauty
Author: Zadie Smith
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 464 pages

Image of Exposure
Author: Talitha Stevenson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages

Non-fiction

Image of Shakespeare: The Biography
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Nan A. Talese (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 592 pages

Image of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
Author: John Grogan
Publisher: William Morrow (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

Image of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Author: Tony Judt
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 896 pages

Image of The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Author: Jonathan Harr
Publisher: Random House (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages

Children/Young Adults

Image of King in the Window, The
Author: Adam Gopnik
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages

Image of Rosa
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Barbara Meade, Co-Owner, Politics and Prose

Image of The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
Author: Haynes Johnson
Publisher: Harcourt (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 624 pages

Image of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Author: George Packer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 480 pages

Image of Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
Author: Anthony Shadid
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages

Image of The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair
Author: Martin Meredith
Publisher: PublicAffairs (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 752 pages

Image of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Author: Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio
Publisher: Material World (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 287 pages

Image of The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)
Author:
Publisher: Random House (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 123 pages

Image of The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution
Author: Marc Weingarten
Publisher: Crown (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages

Fiction

Image of In the Shadow of the Law: A Novel
Author: Kermit Roosevelt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages

Image of Cinnamon Kiss: A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages

Image of The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages

Image of On Beauty
Author: Zadie Smith
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 464 pages

Image of Saturday
Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Nan A. Talese (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 289 pages

Steve Moyers, Co-Owner, Chapters Literary Arts Center and Bookstore

Non-fiction

Image of The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
Author: N. A. M. Rodger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 907 pages

Image of Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Author: Maureen Corrigan
Publisher: Random House (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 201 pages

Image of La Belle France: A Short History
Author: Alistair Horne
Publisher: Knopf (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 512 pages

Image of Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
Author: Jeremy Mercer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages

Image of Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
Author: John Lukacs
Publisher: Yale University Press (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Fiction

Image of The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme: A Novel
Author: Andreï Makine
Publisher: Arcade Publishing (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 216 pages

Image of Last Night
Author: James Salter
Publisher: Knopf (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 144 pages

Image of Palms to the Ground
Author: Amy Stolls
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Picture book

Image of Zen Shorts (Caldecott Honor Book)
Author:
Publisher: Scholastic Press (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Poetry

Image of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
Author: Stanley Kunitz, Genine Lentine
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 144 pages

Image of Migration
Author: W.S. Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 545 pages

Clara Anthony, owner, Sepia Sand and Sable Bookstore

Non-fiction

Image of Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
Author: Fantasia
Publisher: Fireside (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages

Image of Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
Author: John Hope Franklin
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages

Image of Food for the Soul: Recipes and Stories from the Congregation of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church
Author: Abyssinian Baptist Church
Publisher: One World/Ballantine (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

Image of Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair
Author: Michael Cunningham, George Alexander
Publisher: Doubleday (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 216 pages

Image of Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit
Author: Velma Maia Thomas
Publisher: Crown (1997)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages

Fiction

Image of Cinnamon Kiss: A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages

Children

Image of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (Jats 8x8)
Author: tk
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 24 pages

Image of JATS Holiday Classics: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Kwanzaa! (Jats 8x8)
Author: tk
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 24 pages

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