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Forum Holidays 2002 Reading List

On December 2, 2002, Forum listeners shared their reading suggestions for holiday books.

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1000 Days in Siberia/Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW -- Peter Sano
1984 -- George Orwell
Across the Street from Adolf Hitler -- Anneliese Korner-Kalman
The Adamant -- Mary Ruefle
The Adventurous Chef: Alexis Soyer -- Ann Arnold
April, 1865: The Month That Saved America -- Jay Winik
Art of Amazement; Discover Judaism's Forgotten Spirituality -- Alexander Seinfeld
Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light -- Leonard Shlain
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress -- Dai Sijie
Banners of Gold -- Pamela Kaufman
Bel Canto -- Ann Patchett
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters -- Greg Palast
Beyond Terror -- Ralph Peters
Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature -- Stephen Pinker
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design -- Richard Dawkins
Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
Carbon Dreams -- Susan Gaines (Creative Art Book Company)
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance -- Larry Gonick
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World -- Mark Kurlansky
Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth -- Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Hamill (ed.)
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 -- Michael Beschloss
Cry of the Peacock -- Gina B. Nahai
Damascus Nights -- Rafik Schami
Darwin's Radio -- Greg Bear
Death Cults: Murder, Mayhem and Mind Control -- Jack Sargeant, ed.
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex -- Olivia Judson
Earth -- David Brin
Egotopia: Narcissism & the New American Landscape -- John Miller
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil -- Hannah Arendt
Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories -- Ellen Gilchrist
Embers -- Sandor Marai
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds -- Charles MacKay
Fence Magazine (poetry journal)
Flashes and Lies -- Claire Vedensky Korn
The Founding Fish -- John McPhee
Frost in May - Antonia White
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin -- Stephen Jay Gould
The Future of Life -- E.O. Wilson
The Golden Compass -- Philip Pullman
Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel -- Steven C. Weisenburger
Greyfriars Bobby -- Eleanor Atkinson
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage -- Alice Munro
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
Horse Heaven -- Jane Smiley
The House of the Scorpion -- Nancy Farmer
I Know This Much is True -- Wally Lamb
I, Roger Williams -- Mary Lee Settle
Idiot's Guide to Hinduism -- Linda Johnsen
In the Next Galaxy -- Ruth Stone
Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores -- Michelle Malkin
The Iron Wall -- Avi Shlaim
Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest-Growing Faith -- Robert Spencer
Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 -- Tanya Reinhart
John Henry Days -- Colson Whitehead
Juneteenth -- Ralph Ellison
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization -- Thomas Friedman
Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography -- William Lee Miller
Little Green Men -- Christopher Buckley
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 -- Thomas Friedman
The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien
Material World: A Global Family Portrait -- Peter Menzel
Mezzanine -- Nicholson Baker
Mr. Ives' Christmas -- Oscar Hijuelos
My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution -- Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889 -- Frederic Morton
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny -- Robert Wright
On a Pale Horse -- Piers Anthony
Outlander -- Diana Gabaldon
Oyster: A Novel -- John Biguenet
Pickup -- Nadine Gordimer
Politics, Logic, and Love: The Life of Jean Van Heijenoort -- Anita Burdman Feferman
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons -- Robert Sapolsky
Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge -- Said Aburish
Salt: A World History -- Mark Kurlansky
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River -- Aldo Leopold
Seabiscuit: An American Legend -- Laura Hillenbrand
Selected Stories -- Alice Munro
Shield of Three Lions -- Pamela Kaufman
Sons of the Profits Seattle -- William Speidel -- out of print
Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety -- Wendy Kaminer
Small Wonder: Essays -- Barbara Kingsolver
Speer -- Joachim Fest
Stonehenge -- Bernard Cornwell
Terrorism: Theirs and Ours -- Ahmad Eqbal
Theodore Rex -- Edmund Morris
Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories -- A. M. Homes
This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie -- Elizabeth Partridge
The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq -- Kenneth Pollack
Tinisima -- Elena Poniatowska
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference -- Malcolm Gladwell
To Say Nothing of the Dog -- Connie Willis
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom -- David Brin
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture -- Apostolos K. Doxiadis
Virgin's Knot -- Holly Payne
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses -- Bruce Feiler
War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War With Iraq -- Milan Rai
A Wave: Poems -- John Ashbery
What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response -- Bernard Lewis
The White Boy's Shuffle: A Novel -- Paul Beatty
Woman and the Ape -- Peter Hoeg
Your Child's Self-Esteem -- Dorothy Corkille Briggs

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