From Philip Roth's new novel to a Shakespeare biography to the 9/11 Commission's Report, we'll take a look at the some of the books you'll be cuddling up with next to the fire this holiday season. And we'll take a look at what books we can look forward to in 2005. Laura's guests are Jeff Smull, general manager of the Toadstool Bookshop in Keene and Dan Chartrand, co-owner of the Water Street Bookstore in Exeter.
Jeff Smull's list of books:
Fiction
The Surrogate Thief, by Archer Mayor
Before You Know Kindness, by Chris Bohjalian
Runaway, by Alice Munro
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
Nonfiction:
His Excellency: George Washington, by Joseph J. Ellis
John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes
A Country Practice: Scenes for the Veterinary Life, by Douglas Whynott
On The Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon, by Alan Tennant
The Bones of the Earth, by Howard Mansfield
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt
Getting the most bang for your buck for those who love good fiction.
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Any Human Heart, by William Boyd.
Dan Chartrand's list:
Top Ten
The Dew Breakers, by Edwidge Danticat
Waiting for Teddy Williams, by Howard Frank Mosher
Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
The Stone Carvers, by Jane Urquhart
Self Portrait With Turtles, by David Carroll
Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
The Bones of the Earth, by Howard Mansfield
Fun Last Minute Gift Ideas
The Surrogate Thief, by Archer Mayor
Playing with Trains, by Sam Posey
Prince of Thieves, by Chuck Hogan
The Brilliance of Moon, by Lian Hearn (don't forget the first two books in the The Tales of the Otori trilogy---Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass for His Pillow)
