Holiday Books 2008: Michael and Dan's Recommendations

Our Favorite Book for Tweens, Teens and Readers Who Loved Harry Potter

The Hunger Games by
Suzanne Collins

Fiction

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by
Muriel Barbery

The Little Book by
Selden Edwards

The Private Patient: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by P.D. James

The Hour I First Believed by
Wally Lamb

The Given Day by
Dennis Lehane

Songs for the Missing by
Stewart O’Nan

Home by
Marilynne Robinson

The White Mary by
Kira Salak

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by
Mary Ann Shaffer and Anne Barrows

The Good Thief by
Hannah Tinti

Non-Fiction

A Summer Of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey

Champlain’s Dream: The European Founding of North America by David Hackett Fischer

Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry by Donald Hall

The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife’s Memoir by
Patricia Harman

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones

The Bite of the Mango by
Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland

Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency by Robert Kuttner

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by
Fred Kaplan

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough

And finally, here is a book to save the world:

Every Dollar Makes a Difference: The Better World Shopping Guide #2 by Ellis Jones     

For middle readers and YA:

Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The 39 Clues (Book One of The Maze of Bones) by Rick Riordan

Adult non-fiction:

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams

Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis

Cookbooks

How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

Master Class: Recipes from Chefs of New England Culinary Institute by Michaud et al.                                

Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper by Kasper et al.

Fiction

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

A Most Wanted Man John LeCarre

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Inspiration/Gift

Listening is an Act of Love by David Isay and the Storycorps Project

Memoir

Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry by Donald Hall

Children’s picture books

Enigma by Graeme Base
Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett
Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo and Harry Bliss

Local interest

We Went to War: New Hampshire Remembers WWII by Mike Pride and Meg Heckman

Coffee table books

X-Ray by Nick Veasey

Egg & Nest by Purcell et al.

Scrapbooks: An American History by Jessica Helfand