Indie Owners Book Recommendations
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 01:44 PM
Three independent area booksellers visited The Brian Lehrer Show this morning and left their recommendations for holiday gift suggestions:
Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson:
Fiction - Lydia Peele’s Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories
Nonfiction – Graeme Gibson’s The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
Christina Onorati of WORD Bookstore:
Fiction - The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Children’s - The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Graphic Novel - Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Young Adult - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Marva Allen of Hue-Man Bookstore:
Nonfiction - Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges by Byron Pitts (CBS News correspondent)
Children’s – Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson by Sharon Robinson
Young Adult - Poneasequa - Goddess of the Waters by Stephanie A. Duckworth-Elliott
Share your must-reads below.
Comments [3]
[...] independent area booksellers visited The Brian Lehrer Show this morning and left their recommendations for holiday gift [...]
[...] Marva Allen (of Hue-Man Bookstore), Sarah McNally (of McNally Jackson Books), and Christine Onorati (of WORD) talked about indie bookstores and their favorite titles on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show. You can listen to the segment and see a list of all the books they suggested. [...]
[...] a list of their recommendations can be found here. 12 comments | Posted in Culture [...]
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