Good Winter Reading 2010 List

Authors' Recommendations

From Kim Barnes

• Books by Edwidge Danticat (Haitian writer)
• The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn
• The Enders Hotel by Brandon Schrand
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
• In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta A. Ahmed, MD
• Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

From Mitch Wieland

• All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell (about Haiti)
• Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy
• Then Came the Evening by Brian Hart
• All Things, All at Once by Lee K. Abbott
• Tehano by Allen Wier
• Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life by Kelly Cherry

Viewers' Recommendations

• Chad from Facebook: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Courtney from Facebook: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
• Amy from Facebook: My Sweet, Wild Dance by Mikaya Heart
• Marlene from Facebook: The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
• Cecelia from Facebook: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Carlene in Boise: Year of the Horse by Justin Allen
• Robert in Boise: Lonestar Rising by Elmer Kelton and The Big Sky, by A.B. Guthrie
• L.D. in Meridian: Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, by Alan Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa
• Patricia in Boise: We Sagebrush Folks by Annie Pike Greenwood
• Marlene in Firth: Summer's Run: An American Boyhood by James Cotton

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