Winter 2008 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
Contemporary Fiction Illuminating the Middle East
The Wasted Vigil
by Nadeem Aslam
Four Novels with Historical Settings
Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise
by Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore
The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent
Company of Liars
by Karen Maitland
Sashenka: A Novel
by Simon Montefiore
Three Story Collections
Yesterday's Weather
by Anne Enright
The People on Privilege Hill
by Jane Gardam
Fine Just the Way It Is
by Annie Proulx
Three Grand Masters
A Mercy
by Toni Morrison
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
Indignation
by Philip Roth
Two Poets
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
by Simon Armitage
The Romantic Dogs
by Roberto Bolaño
Todd Stewart
Co-owner of Vertigo Books
Fiction
Sway: A Novel
by Zachary Lazar
Indignation
by Philip Roth
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
Peace
by Richard Bausch
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
Martin Beck Mysteries
by Maj Sjowall and Per Waloo
Nonfiction
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
Like a Rolling Stone: The Strange Life of a Tribute Band
by Steven Kurutz
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
by Art Spiegelman
Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army
by Les Standiford
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
by David Levering Lewis
Megan Graves
Hooray For Books!
Children's Literature:
Age: 2 and under
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox
Haiku Baby
by Betsy Snyder
Age: 3-6
Doggone Dogs
by Karen Beaumont
Age: 6-8
Saving Mr Nibbles (Elliot's Park) (Elliot's Park)
by Patrick Carman
Oops!
by Alan Katz
Age: 8-10
Masterpiece
by Elise Broach
Age: 10-12
The Dragonfly Pool
by Eva Ibbotson
The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail (The Youngest Templar)
by Michael Spradlin
Age: 12 and up
Nation
by Terry Pratchett
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Children's Holiday Literature
Hurry Hurry Have You Heard
by Laura Krauss Melmed
Children's Poetry
