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Best Reads in 2009
On November 24, 2009, Forum listeners called in to share their favorite reads of the past year. Below is a list of the books discussed on the show:
"Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades" by Robert Spencer
"Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life" by Carol Sklenicka
"Under the Dome" by Stephen King
"The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver
"The Anthologist" by Nicholson Baker
"You and I: A True Story" by Nicholson Baker
"A Gate at the Stairs" by Lorrie Moore
"Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History" by Canyon Sam
"Collected Stories" by Raymond Carver
"Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems" by Gary Snyder
"Pieces of My Heart: A Life" by Robert Wagner
"Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese
"The Name of this Book is Secret" by Pseudononymous Bosch
"Why does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care)?" by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
"The Thing About Life is that One Day You'll Be Dead" by David Shields
"Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son" by Michael Chabon
"Zetouin" by Dave Eggers
"Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer
"The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America" by Tim Eagan
"Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tilman" by Jon Krakauer
"The Wild Things" by Edmund White
"Berkeley to Beijing: The Journey of a Young Activist" by Karen Boutilier Kendall
"Blame" by Michelle Huneven
"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Kline
"Too Much Happiness " by Alice Munro
"On Human Nature " by Edward O. Wilson
"What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America" by Thomas Frank
"Finding Pete " by Jill Hunting
"Face" by Sherman Alexie
"Chronic: Poems" by D.A Powel
"Failure" by Philip Schultz
"The Children's Book" by A. S. Byatt
"Shop Class as Soulcraft" by Matthew B. Crawford
"The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown
"The Original of Laura" by Vladimir Nabokov
"An Echo in the Bone" by Diana Gabaldon
"Book Life: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st Century Writer" by Jeff VanderMeer
"The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 'On the Origin of Species'" by James Costa
"The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" by Richard Dawkins
"The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President" by Taylor Branch
"Tree Spirits: Tales and Encounters" by Heather Preston
"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo " by Stieg Larsson
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery
"The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria
"Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middleast " by Shareen Blair Brysac
"Justice" by Michael Sandel
"The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper
"Master and Margarita" by Mickhail Bulgakov
"The Last Queen" by C. W. Gortner
"Catherine De Medici" by Leoni Frieda
"Invisible" by Paul Auster
"Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem
"Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
"On Kindness" by Adam Philips
"Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker" by James McManus
"Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes" by Tamim Ansery
"The Case for God" by Karen Armstrong
"Of Love and Summer" by William Trevor
"Peruvian Rebel" by Kathleen Weaver
"The Humbling" by Philip Roth
"Smasher" by Keith Raffel
"The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak
"This Is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper
"Pearl of the Storm" by Tori Murden Mcclure
"Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel
"Drood" by Dan Simmons
"Julie & Julia" by Julia Powel
"Faultline" by Barry Eisler
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shafer
"The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
"Jews, God, and History" by Max Dimont
"Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability" by Michael K Stone
"Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original" by Robin D G Kelly
"Changing Light" by J Ruth Gendler
"Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore
