2009 Winter | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

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2009 Winter

This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

Alan Cheuse, Book Reviewer, All Things Considered

Books Worth Giving and Receiving This Season

Image of Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
Author: Colum McCann
Publisher: Random House (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages

Image of Lark and Termite (Vintage Contemporaries)
Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
Publisher: Vintage (2010)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages

Image of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Image of American Salvage (Made in Michigan Writers)
Author: Bonnie Jo Campbell
Publisher: Wayne State University Press (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 170 pages

Image of Into the Beautiful North: A Novel
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 352 pages

Image of Between the Assassinations (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice)
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Thorndike Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 487 pages

Image of The River Gods
Author: Brian Kiteley
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2 (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 176 pages

Reading for Pure Pleasure

Image of Inherent Vice
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages

Image of The Increment (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print))
Author: David Ignatius
Publisher: Center Point Pub (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 482 pages

Image of The Stalin Epigram: A Novel
Author: Robert Littell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages

Image of The Last Noel
Author: Malone
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (2002)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

Recommended for Kids

Image of The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination
Author: Mary Ann Hoberman, Linda Winston
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages

Daphne Gaskins, Manager, Reiter's Books

For News Junkies and Others Who Follow Current Events

Image of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Author: Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
Publisher: Princeton University Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 496 pages

Image of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office
Author: David Blumenthal, James Morone
Publisher: University of California Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 494 pages

Image of Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
Author: Helen Thorpe
Publisher: Scribner (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 400 pages

The Sciences in Real Life

Image of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Author: William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Publisher: William Morrow (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages

Image of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
Author: G. A. Bradshaw
Publisher: Yale University Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 352 pages

Image of Nothing: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Author: Frank Close
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 144 pages

Image of Chocolate: A Global History (Reaktion Books - Edible)
Author: Sarah Moss, Alexander Badenoch
Publisher: Reaktion Books (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 128 pages

Image of Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books
Author:
Publisher: Yale University Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages

For Kids (Ages 8 and Up)

Image of Body Science
Author: Dk Publishing, James Cracknell
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 96 pages

Image of A Year in Art: The Activity Book
Author: Christiane Weidemann
Publisher: Prestel USA (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 376 pages

Robin Whitten, Editor and Founder, Audio File

The following are Robin's audio book suggestions.

Fiction

Image of The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Penguin Audio (2009)
Binding: Audio CD, pages

Image of The Iron Duke (Stories from the Golden Age)
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher: Galaxy Audio (2009)
Binding: Audio CD, pages

Image of Good Omens CD
Author: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Publisher: HarperAudio (2009)
Binding: Audio CD, pages

Image of The Maltese Falcon (Audio dramatization)
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. (2008)
Binding: Audio CD, pages

Nonfiction

Image of Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Author: Michael J. Fox
Publisher: HarperAudio (2009)
Binding: Audio CD, pages

Image of In A Nutshell: Darwin (In a Nutshell (Naxos Audio))
Author: Peter Whitfield
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks (2009)
Binding: Audio CD, 1 pages

Kids

Image of Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
Author: David Benedictus
Publisher: Penguin Audio (2009)
Binding: Audio CD, 1 pages

Image of Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
Author:
Publisher: Hachette Audio (2009)
Binding: Audio CD, pages

Image of Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack Adventures)
Author: L.A. Meyer
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc. (2007)
Binding: Audio CD, pages

Image of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Author: Phillip Hoose
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged (2009)
Binding: Audio CD, pages

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