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Forum Holidays 2003 Reading List

On December 16, 2003, Forum listeners shared their reading suggestions for holiday books.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
Already Home: Topography of Spirit and Place -- Barbara Gates
The American Soul -- Jacob Needleman
Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies -- Michael J. Bader
Bel Canto -- Ann Patchett
The Big Book of Tai Chi: Build Health Fast in Slow Motion -- Bruce Frantzis
The Big Red Bus -- Judy Hindley
Blindness -- Jose Saramago
Boys -- Bill Pollock
Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History -- George Crile
Christmas Family Gatherings: Recipes and Ideas for Celebrating With People You Love -- Donata Maggipinto
The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve -- G. Edward Griffin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell -- Janet Wallach
Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco -- Jeff Kraft, Aaron Leventhal and Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World -- Lawrence Lessig
The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood
The Heaven Tree Trilogy -- Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters)
Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, Portrait of a Marriage -- Diane Middlebrook
Hug -- Jez Alborough
I Sailed with Magellan -- Stuart Dybek
Ideas that Conquered the World -- Michael Mandelbaum
Imagining Argentina -- Lawrence Thornton
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington -- Robert Rubin
Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
Is That a Moose in Your Pocket? -- Kim Green
Jung: A Biography -- Deirdre Bair
The Known World -- Edward Jones
The No. 1 Ladies' Detectives Agencies -- Alexander McCall Smith
Leaving: A Novel -- Richard Dry
Life and Times of Michael K -- J.M. Coetzee
Living on the Wind -- Scott Weidensaul
Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Man Without Qualities -- Robert Musil
The Morning Side of Mount Diablo -- Anne Marshall Homan
The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire -- Khassan Baiev, et al
Ordinary Money -- Louis B. Jones
Prey -- Michael Crichton
Timeline -- Michael Crichton
The Princess Bride -- William Goldman
Reading Lolita in Tehran -- Azar Nafisi
Reefer Madness -- Eric Schlossenger
Rubyfruit Jungle -- Rita Mae Brown
Scapegoats at Work -- John M. Dyckman, Joseph A. Cutler
The Secret Life of Bees -- Sue Monk
Shays Rebellion -- Leonard Richards
A Short History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers -- Mary Roach
Sylvie and Bruno -- Lewis Carroll
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out into the Real World -- Maria Shriver
Time for Bed -- Jane Dyer, Mem Fox
Empty Copper Sea (The Travis McGee Series) -- John D. MacDonald
Trumpet of the Swan -- E. B. White
Typee, Omoo and Mardi -- Herman Melville
Understanding Power -- Noam Chomsky
The Virgin Blue -- Tracy Chevalier
Why Cats Paint -- Heather Busch and Burton Silver
Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath -- Kate Moses
The World of Normal Boys -- K. M. Soehnlein

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