Two New Hampshire independent booksellers give us their picks for the best reads of 2013. Here's a list of their favorites for the season, as well as a list of the books mentioned during the show.
GUESTS:
- Michael Herrmann - Owner of Gibson's Bookstore in Concord
- Dan Chartrand - Owner of Water Street Bookstore in Exeter
Best of the Season Book List from Michael & Dan:
(scroll down for list of programs mentioned during the show)
Fiction
- The Last First Day- Carrie Brown
- The Gravity of Birds- Tracy Guzeman
- We Are Water- Wally Lamb
- Someone- Alice McDermott
- The Night Guest- Fiona McFarlane
- More Than This- Patrick Ness
- How The Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache - Louise Penny
- Night Film- Marisha Pessl
- Fangirl- Rainbow Rowell
- The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt
- Ocean at the End of the Lane- Neil Gaiman
- Tenth of December- George Saunders
- Dr. Sleep- Stephen King
- Dear Life- Alice Munro
- The Luminaries- Eleanor Catton
- Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic- Emily Croy Barker
Non-Fiction
- Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle East- Scott Anderson
- Report From The Interior- Paul Auster
- Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and The Reinvention of American Taste- Luke Barr
- Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure- Artemis Cooper
- The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend- Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
- Five Days At Memorial: Life And Death In A Storm-Ravaged Hospital- Sheri Fink
- The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America- George Packer
- Amsterdam: A History Of The World's Most Liberal City- Russell Shorto
- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban- Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
- 100 year anniversary of WWI:
- The Sleepwalkers- Christopher Clark
- War that Ended Peace- Margaret Macmillan
- Catastrophe 1914- Max Hastings
- Guns at Last Light- Rick Atkinson
- Bunker Hill- Nat Philbrick
- Bully Pulpit- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- One Summer: America 1927- Bill Bryson
- Stitches- Anne Lamott
- This is the Story of a Happy Marriage- Ann Patchett
- Orr: My Story- Bobby Orr
- The Kid: Immortal Life of Ted Williams-Ben Bradlee Jr.
- Spillover- David Quammen
- Story of the Human Body- Daniel Lieberman
- Complete Art of the Vatican- Workman
- Lonely Planet’s Beautiful World
- A.O.C. Cookbook- Suzanne Goin
- Lean In - Sheryl Sandburg
- Quiet- Susan Cain
- Hyperbole and a Half- Allie Brosh
- Let Me off at the Top!- “Ron Burgundy”
Children's and Teen Favorites
- How To Train A Train- Jason Carter Eaton and John Rocco
- The Day the Crayons Quit- Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
- Star Wars Jedi Academy- Jeffrey Brown
- Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures- Kate DiCamillo and K. G. Campbell
- Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library- Chris Grabenstein
- The Eye Of Minds- James Dashner
- Unbreakable: The Legion Book 1- Kami Garcia
- The Burning Sky- Sherry Thomas
- Mr. Wuffles! - David Wiesner
- Journey- Aaron Becker
- Hostage Three- Nick Lake
- The Eye of Minds- James Dashner
- new series by Alexander McCall Smith
- Counting by 7s – Holly Goldberg Sloan
Local Authors
- Evil Intentions: A Jack Beale Mystery- K. D. Mason
- Outtastatahs: Newcomers' Adventures in New Hampshire- Gary Patton
- Snow Fence Road- Phyllis Edgerly Ring
- Strange Terrain and Be That Empty- Alice Fogel (new NH poet laureate)
- Dwelling in Possibility- Howard Mansfield
- Mud Season- Ellen Stimson
Mentioned during the show:
New Fiction by big authors
- Dirty Love - Andre Dubus III
- Doctor Sleep - Steven King
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
- The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
- MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
- Valley of Amazement - Amy Tan
- The Luminaries- Eleanor Catton
- Dear Life – Alice Munro
- Tenth of December - George Saunders
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- Night Guest - Fiona McFarlance
- Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic- Emily Croy Barker
- Guide for the Perplexed - Dara Horn
- Night Film - Marisha Pessl
- Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
- Fangirl- Rainbow Rowell
- More than This – Patrick Ness
- The Boy on the Wooden Box – Leon Leyson
History
- The Guns at Last Light – Rick Atkinson
- War that Ended Peace- Margaret Macmillan
- Catastrophe 1914- Max Hastings
- The Sleepwalkers- Christopher Clark
- Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
- Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle East- Scott Anderson
- The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend- Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
- Bully Pulpit- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Bunker Hill - Nathaniel Philbrick
Local
- Town histories
- Outtastatahs: Newcomers' Adventures in New Hampshire- Gary Patton
- Women, Animals, and Vegetables - Maxine Kumin
- String Too Short to be Saved - Donald Hall
- NH author Rebecca Rule
- Dwelling in Possibility- Howard Mansfield
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- A Higher Call - Adam Makos
- How to Architect - Doug Patt
- The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream - Thomas Dyja
- Frozen in Time - Zubkov
- The Abominable - Dan Simmons
Music
- Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker - Stanley Crouch
- A Life of Duke Ellington - Terry Teachout
- Beatles Vs Stones - John McMillian
- The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics - Alan Aldridge
- Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life - Graham Nash
- A Brother's Story - Leon Hendrix and Adam Mitchell
- Johnny Cash: The Life - Robert Hilburn
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- South of Broad – Pat Conroy
- Death of Santini
- Names and Places in the White Mountains
- Hiking History of the White Mountain - Mike Dickerman
Book Club
- Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
- The Light Between Oceans- M.L. Stedman
- The Art Forger: A Novel Paperback - B. A. Shapiro
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- The King of Sports by Gregg Easterbrook
- NFL critiques
- The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams: Ben Bradlee Jr.
- America's Climate Century: What Climate Change Means for America in the 21st Century and What Americans Can Do about It - Senator Rob Hogg
- Spillover – David Quammen
- The Unwinding by George Packer
- The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease- Daniel Lieberman
- The Song of the Quarkbeast- Jasper Fforde
- Thursday Next series
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin - Jill Lepore
Personal Christmas Lists
- Michael’s: Ulysses with rare Matisse illustrations
- Dan’s: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure- Artemis Cooper