Winter 2005 Reading List
Recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners
Barbara Hoffert, Book Editor of Library Journal
Fiction
The Sea (Man Booker Prize)
by John Banville
(Knopf)
The Tattoo Artist : A Novel
by Jill Ciment
(Pantheon)
Beasts of No Nation : A Novel
by Uzodinma Iweala
(HarperCollins)
Veronica : A Novel
by Mary Gaitskill
(Pantheon)
Seven Lies: A Novel
by James Lasdun
(W. W. Norton)
Vita : A Novel
by Melania G. Mazzucco
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Whale Caller : A Novel
by Zakes Mda
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear
by Walter Moers
(Overlook Hardcover)
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
(Penguin Press HC, The)
Exposure
by Talitha Stevenson
(Harcourt)
Non-fiction
Shakespeare : The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
(Nan A. Talese)
Marley & Me : Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
(William Morrow)
Postwar : A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
(Penguin Press HC, The)
The Lost Painting: The Search for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
by Jonathan Harr
(Random House)
Children/Young Adults
The King in the Window
by Adam Gopnik
(Miramax)
Rosa
by Nikki Giovanni
(Henry Holt and Co. (BYR))
Barbara Meade, Co-owner, Politics and Prose Bookstore
Non-fiction
The Age of Anxiety : McCarthyism to Terrorism
by Haynes Johnson
(Harcourt)
The Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq
by George Packer
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Night Draws Near : Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by Anthony Shadid
(Henry Holt and Co.)
The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair
by Martin Meredith
(PublicAffairs)
Hungry Planet
by Peter Menzel
(Ten Speed Press)
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight : Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution
by Marc Weingarten
(Crown)
Fiction
In the Shadow of the Law : A novel
by Kermit Roosevelt
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Cinnamon Kiss : A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover))
by Walter Mosley
(Little, Brown)
The Lincoln Lawyer : A Novel
by Michael Connelly
(Little, Brown)
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
(Penguin Press HC, The)
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
(Nan A. Talese)
Steve Moyers, co-owner, Chapters: A Literary Bookstore
Non-fiction
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
by N. A. M. Rodger
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading : Finding and Losing Myself in Books
by Maureen Corrigan
(Random House)
La Belle France : A Short History
by Alistair Horne
(Knopf)
Time Was Soft There : A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
by Jeremy Mercer
(St. Martin's Press)
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred
by John Lukacs
(Yale University Press)
Fiction
The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme : A Novel
by Andrei Makine
(Arcade Publishing)
Last Night
by James Salter
(Knopf)
Palms to the Ground
by Amy Stolls
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR))
Picture book
Zen Shorts
(Scholastic Press)
Poetry
The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
by Stanley Kunitz
(W. W. Norton)
Migration
by W.S. Merwin
(Copper Canyon Press)
Clara Anthony, owner, Sepia Sand and Sable Bookstore
Non-fiction
Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
by Fantasia
(Fireside)
Mirror to America : The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
by John Hope Franklin
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Food for the Soul : Recipes and Stories from the Congregation of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church
by Abyssinian Baptist Church
(One World/Ballantine)
Queens : Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair
by Michael Cunningham
(Doubleday)
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
by Velma Maia Thomas
(Crown)
Fiction
Cinnamon Kiss : A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover))
by Walter Mosley
(Little, Brown)
Children
Jump at the Sun: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas - Holiday Classics (Jats 8x8)
by tk
(Jump At The Sun)
