Holiday Book Suggestions

Fiction

 
The Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian 

by Sherman Alexie

The Archivist's Story 

by Travis Holland

The Book of Lost Things 

by John Connolly

Coal Black Horse 

by Robert Olmstead
(local area author)

Fair and Tender Ladies

by Lee Smith

Then We Came to The End 

by Joshua Ferris

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A Thousand Splendid Suns 

  by Khaled Hosseini

The Uncommon Reader
A Novella

by Alan Bennett

Nonfiction

Alternation: Transform. Embellish. Customize

by Shannon Okey and
Alexandra Underhill
(local authors) [on order]

 
Collapse:
How Societies Choose
to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

Escape 

  by Caroline Jessop
    and Laura Palmer

Father Joe:
The Man Who Saved My Soul

  by Tony Hendra

The Jesuit and the Skull: 
Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man

by Amir Aczel

A Long Way Gone:
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  by Ishmael Beah

The Phenomenon of Man 

  by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[translated by B. Wall]

The Shock Doctrine:
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

  by Naomi Klein

Tales of a Female Nomad: 
Living at Large in the World

by Rita Golden Gelman

Three Cups of Tea:
One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism & Build Nations
...One School at a Time

by Greg Mortenson

A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy

by Sara Bongiorni

Coffee Table Books

1,001 Books You Must
Read Before You Die  

edited by Peter Akroyd
and Peter Boxall

Cartographia:
Mapping Civilizations 

by Vincent Virga and
The Library of Congress
[on order]

30,000 Years of Art:
The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space

edited by Phaidon Press
[on order]

Juvenile Nonfiction

Encyclopedia Prehistorica:
Mega-Beasts 

by Robert Sabuda

 
Skyscraper 

  by Lynn Curlee

Jazz on a Saturday Night 

  by Leo and Diane Dillon

Juvenile Fiction

Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland 

by Lewis Carroll

Invention of Hugo Cabret
A Novel in Words and Pictures

by Brian Selznick

Magic Tree House Series 

  by Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Poppins 

by P.L. Travers

Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas 

by Pauline Chen
(local author; set in Cleveland)
[on order]

The Story of Doctor Dolittle 

  by Hugh Lofting

A Wrinkle in Time 

by Madeline L'Engle

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Additional books mentioned

Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil
by Inga Muscio

Hiding Out
by Jonathan Messinger

How to Enter Vaudeville
by Frederic La Delle

Our Way of Life — poetry
by Ray McNeise (local author)

Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch 
by Lynda Harris

(check your local bookstore)

Stingray — poetry
by Michael Salinger (local author)

A Treetop Bird Family 
by Loretta Magden (local author)

Walks Around Akron:
Rediscovering A City in Transition 
by Russ Musarra and Chuck Ayers
(local authors)

The Wild Braid  — poetry
by Stanley Kunitz