2008 Winter
This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review
Contemporary Fiction Illuminating the Middle East
Four Novels with Historical Settings
Author: Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. (2008)
Binding: Audio CD, pages
Author: Kathleen Kent
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 352 pages
Author: Karen Maitland
Publisher: Delacorte Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 480 pages
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 544 pages
Three Story Collections
Author: Anne Enright
Publisher: Grove Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 308 pages
Author: Jane Gardam
Publisher: Europa Editions (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 208 pages
Author: Annie Proulx
Publisher: Scribner (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages
Three Grand Masters
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 233 pages
Two Poets
Author: Simon Armitage
Publisher: Knopf (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 80 pages
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: New Directions (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 128 pages
Todd Stewart
Co-owner of Vertigo Books
Fiction
Author: Zachary Lazar
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 233 pages
Author: James Howard Kunstler
Publisher: Grove Press (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 336 pages
Author: Alexandre Dumas père
Publisher: Signet Classics (2006)
Binding: Mass Market Paperback, 656 pages
Nonfiction
Author: Tom Vanderbilt
Publisher: Knopf (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages
Author: Steven Kurutz
Publisher: Broadway (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages
Author: Art Spiegelman
Publisher: Pantheon (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 72 pages
Author: Les Standiford
Publisher: Crown (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages
Author: David Levering Lewis
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 384 pages
Megan Graves
Hooray For Books!
Children's Literature:
Age: 2 and under
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages
Author: Betsy E. Snyder
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (2008)
Binding: Board book, 14 pages
Age: 3-6
Author: Patrick Carman
Publisher: Orchard Books (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 80 pages
Age: 8-10
Author: Jen Bryant
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 34 pages
Author: Elise Broach
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages
Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages
Author: Michael Spradlin
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages
Age: 12 and up
Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages
Children's Holiday Literature
Author: Laura Krauss Melmed
Publisher: Chronicle Books (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 36 pages
Children's Poetry
Author:
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 176 pages
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