Holiday Books 2006

As part of The Exchange's Holiday Books program, Michael Herrmann of Gibson's Bookstore in Concord and Dan Chartrand of Water Street Bookstore in Exeter share their top holiday reads.

Michael Herrmann's Top 12 books:		Dan Chartrand's Top 13 books:
The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson		The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (Water Street Bookstore's Book of the Year)
Moving The Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything by Charlie Pierce		Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots and the Rise of People-Powered Politics by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas
Flotsam by David Wiesner		The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins		Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Heat by Bill Buford		Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes by Mark Crick		There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children by Melissa Fay Greene
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian Toll		When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton
View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro		Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos
The Road by Cormac McCarthy		The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marsha Pessl		The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 by Annie Liebovitz		Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made by Jim Newton
I Feel Bad About My Neck, And Other Thoughts On Being A Woman by Nora Ephron		The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
		The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield