Winter 2007 Reading List
This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review
Fiction
The Air We Breathe: A Novel
by Andrea Barrett
Grub
by Elise Blackwell
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories
by Nadine Gordimer
The Quiet Girl: A Novel
by Peter Hoeg
Orpheus Lost: A Novel
by Janette Turner Hospital
Caspian Rain
by Gina B. Nahai
Nonfiction
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Other Colors: Essays and a Story
by Orhan Pamuk
Young Adult Literature
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Candida Mannozzi
Owner, Candida's World of Books
Travel or Gift Books
Lonely Planet 2008 Bluelist (Lonely Planet's Bluelist)
by Lonely Planet Staff
Lonely Planet The Africa Book (General Pictorial)
by Matt Phillips
Lonely Planet The Asia Book (General Pictorial)
by China Williams
A Little Bit of Paris
by Jean-Jacques Sempe
Africa
by Sebastiao Salgado
The Grand Tour
by Harry Seidler
Fiction
The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Modern Library)
by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
by Leonie Swann
Non-Fiction/Humor
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
by Lemony Snicket
How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer
by Vic Darkwood
Kids' Books
Christmas Around the World: A Pop-Up Book
by Chuck Fischer
The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
by Dawn Casey
Riddle of the Nile
by Deborah Nash
Dinah Paul
Owner, A Likely Story Children's Bookstore
Who's That Baby?: New-Baby Songs
by Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
Ruby Holler (Joanna Cotler Books)
by Sharon Creech
Half Magic
by Edward Eager
Knight's Castle
by Edward Eager
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
by Kate Dicamillo
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate Dicamillo
Winter Babies Wear Layers
by Michelle Sinclair Colman
Living Color
by Steve Jenkins
I'm The Biggest Thing in the Ocean
by Kevin Sherry
The Nixie's Song (Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1)
by Tony DiTerlizzi
The Castle Corona
by Sharon Creech
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
by Gennifer Choldenko
Todd Stewart,
Vertigo Books
Fiction
The Bone People: A Novel
by Keri Hulme
Mr. Darwin's Shooter
by Roger MacDonald
Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories
by Jim Shepard
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu
De Niro's Game
by Rawi Hage
The Pirate's Daughter
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
Nonfiction
All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present (Boondocks)
by Aaron Mcgruder
The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
by Francisco Goldman
Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell
by Adrienne L. Childs
