Looking for a good book? Check out this list
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With the holidays nearing, many of you will be putting a book or two on the gift list.
Others will involuntarily be getting a book you may or may not be happy with. But if we may, we’d suggest giving these books a second-chance. The Kojo Nnamdi Show from WAMU checked in with a number of experts to compile this list of books that might be perfect for reading this winter.
Let us know what books are missing and what books you think might be worth checking out this year.
Barbara Hoffert, Editor of the Book Review at Library Journal
by Jesmyn Ward
Bloomsbury USA
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Rashad Harrison
Atria Books
by Nikolai Grozni
Free Press
by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter (New York Review Books Classics)
by Elisabeth Gille
NYRB Classics
Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation
by Amal al-Jubouri
Alice James Books
by Joe Henry
Random House
As If a Bird Flew By Me: A Novel
by Sara Greenslit
Fiction Collective 2
Best European Fiction 2012 (Best European Fiction)
by
Dalkey Archive Press
A History of the World in 100 Objects
by Neil MacGregor
Viking Adult
by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
Random House
Michael Dirida, Book Critic, The Washington Post Book World
We Others: New and Selected Stories
by Steven Millhauser
Knopf
by David Lodge
Viking Adult
by Alan Hollinghurst
Knopf
by Haruki Murakami
Knopf
by Mat Johnson
Spiegel & Grau
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
by Anthony Horowitz
Mulholland Books
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
British Library
by Laurie R. King
Bantam
A Study in Sherlock: Stories inspired by the Holmes canon
by
Bantam
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (Writers on Writers)
by Michael Dirda
Princeton University Press
by Haruki Murakami
Knopf
by Mat Johnson
Spiegel & Grau
Hav (New York Review Books Classics)
by Jan Morris
NYRB Classics
by Andrew Krivak
Bellevue Literary Press
by Umberto Eco
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition
by Norton Juster
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
by Andrew Graham-Dixon
W. W. Norton & Company
by Frank Brady
Crown
And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Vintage)
by Alan Riding
Vintage
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956
by Samuel Beckett
Cambridge University Press
by Jonathan R. Eller
University of Illinois Press
Parul Sehgal, NPR Books Editor, Digital Arts, NPR
by Joshua Cody
W. W. Norton & Company
by Arundhati Roy
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
by Paul Hendrickson
Knopf
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
by Christopher Hitchens
Twelve
by Joan Didion
Knopf
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
Random House
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
by Eugenia Bone
Rodale Books
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Sense of an Ending (Borzoi Books)
by Julian Barnes
Knopf
by Alex Shakar
Soho Press
by Yannick Murphy
Harper Perennial
by Donald Ray Pollock
Doubleday
Marcela Valdes, Editor, Publisher’s Weekly and The Washington Examiner
The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel
by Héctor Tobar
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Craig Thompson
Pantheon
by Aravind Adiga
Knopf
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
by Edith Pearlman, Ann Patchett (introduction)
Lookout Books
Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
by Paul Hendrickson
Knopf
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
by Sylvia Nasar
Simon & Schuster
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
by Deborah Baker
Graywolf Press
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
W. W. Norton & Company
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