On today's Your Call, it’s our year-end book show! Call or email us with your favorites. What are you reading right now? What are you recommending to friends? To your children? What books are you giving as gifts? Are there books from past years you still think about? How are you getting your reading material these days? Any favorite local book shops? Join the conversation on the next Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.
Guests:
Sharon Levin, founder of the Bay Area children’s Literature List; children's book specialist at Books, Inc.
Kevin Hunsanger, co-owner of Green Apple Books and music in San Francisco
Resources:
Life, Literature, Laughter (Sharon Levin’s blog)
Email Sharon if you want to join the Bay Area Children's Literature List: sharonlevin@mindspring.com
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BOOK LIST!!! (COMPILED FROM TODAY'S HOUR OF YOUR CALL)
Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers
Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Eating on the Wild Side, by Jo Robinson
You Know When the Men are Gone, by Siobhan Fallon
The Son, by Philipp Meyer
Going Clear, by Lawrence Wright
The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson
I Could Pee on This/ I Could Chew on This (cat/ dog animal blogs)
March, by John Lewis
The Martian, by Andy Weir
The Future, by Al Gore
Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
Martin’s Dream, by Clayborne Carson
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Battle Bunny, by Mac Barnett
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, by Jeannette Walls
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler
The Light Between the Oceans, by M. L. Stedman
The Dinner, by Herman Koch
Mink River, by Brian Doyle
A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki
God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Journey to the Heart of Medicine, by Victoria Sweet
Why We Broke Up, by Daniel Handler
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, by Andrew Sean Greer
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco, by Gary Kamiya
Snitch World, by Jim Nisbet
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo (Note: Don’t read the Introduction first!)
The Absolutist, by John Boyne
Verve: The Sound of America, by Richard Havers
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, by Byron Katie
The 44 Scotland Street series, by Alexander McCall Smith
Freakboy, by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tostoy
S, by J.J . Abrams and Doug Dorst
For Children/Teens:
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The False Prince and The Runaway King, by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Battle Bunny, by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett
The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu
Frog Trouble and Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs, by Sandra Boynton
Counting By 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Jedi Academy, by Jeffrey Brown
Boxers and Saints, by Gene Luen Yang
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman (first of a series)
The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness (#1 of Chaos Walking series)
Much Loved, by Mark Nixon
All the Truth That’s in Me, by Julie Berry
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Biographies/ Autobiographies:
Eslanda: The Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby
Long Walk to Freedom: With Connections, by Nelson Mandela
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life, by Jonathan Sperber
Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers, by Valerie Lawson
The Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Hermann, by Steven C. Smith
The People’s Advocate, by Daniel Sheehan
BOOKSTORES RECOMMENDED ON TODAY'S YOUR CALL:
Sagrada (Oakland)
Adobe Books (a collective)
The Green Arcade
Green Apple Books and Music (San Francisco)
Folio Books (Noe Valley)
Book Shop Santa Cruz
Green Branch Library
Capitola Book Café
Books Inc.
Soleo Books
Thidwick Books
Borderland Books
Leigh’s Favorite Books (Sunnyvale)