Whether it’s a gift to put under the tree or a present to yourself as you curl up next to the fire, we'll ask what has been the best books of 2005, from Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" to Ian McEwan's "Saturday". And we want to know what's on your reading list too. Laura is joined by our regular book experts, Jeff Smull, general manager of the Toadstool Bookshop in Keene and Dan Chartrand, co-owner of the Waterstreet Bookstore in Exeter.
Jeff's Reading List:
Fiction
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
The March, by E.L. Doctorow
Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie
St. Alban's Fire, by Archer Mayor
Spoonwood, by Ernest Hebert
Nonfiction
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, by George Packer
New Art City, by Jed Perl
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles Mann
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Dan's Reading List:
The Lighthouse: An Adam Dalgliesh Novel, P. D. James
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, Candice Millard
The Tender Bar: A Memoir, J. R. Moehringer
New and Selected Poems: Volume Two, Mary Oliver
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
The Encyclopedia of New England, Editors: Burt Feintuch & David Watters
