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Book Doctor Recommendations for May 14, 2008

Jeffrey Ann Goudie's Recommendations

What Now?
by Ann Patchet

Brief Under Water
by Cyrus Console

Featured Travel Book Selection:
Imagined London
by Anna Quindlen



Mark Luce's Recommendations

Harry Revised
by Mark Sarras


Featured Travel Book Selection:
All The Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy


Kaite Stover's Recommendations

The Heroines: A Novel
by Eileen Favorite


Featured Travel Book Selection:
New York
DK Eyewitness Travel Guides


Book Doctor Recommendations for April 17, 2008

Steve Paul's Recommendations

The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

by Jonathan Rosen

A Blue Hand: The Beats in India
by Deborah Parker

Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz

Jeffrey Ann Goudie's Recommendations

The Plague of Doves
by Louise Erdrich

The Outcast
by Sadie Jones

Broken Time
by John Mark Eberhart

John Mark Eberhart's Recommendations

John Adams
by David McCullough

Naked Lunch (The Restored Text)
by William Burroughs

I Was Told There’d Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley

Book Doctor Recommendations for March 20, 2008

Mark Luce's Recommendations

Mountain Home:  The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
Translated by David Hinton

We Disappear
by Scott Heim

Kaite Stover's Recommendations

Libraries in the Ancient World
by Lionel Casson

The Last Cattle Drive
by Robert Day

Steve Paul's Recommendations

The Known World
by Edward P Jones

The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
by Jonathan Rosen


Book Doctor Recommendations for February 18, 2008

Mark Luce's Recommendations

Metamorphoses
by Mary Zimmerman

Born Standing Up
by Steve Martin

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1,2,3
by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Flotsam
by David Wiesner

Ball of String
Lights Out
by Arthur Geisert



Jeffrey Ann Goudie's Recommendations

The Invention of Everything Else
by Samantha Hunt

Nobody Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July

Peter and the Starcatchers
by Dave Barry


Kaite Stover's Recommendations

A Long Way Gone
by Ishmael Beah

Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green
by Johnny Rico

Garden Spells
by Sarah Addison Allen


Book Doctor Recommendations for January 16, 2008

Jeffrey Ann Goudie's Recommendations

Faint Praise:  The Plight of Book Reviewing in America
by Gail Pool

How The Dead Dream
by Lydia Millet

The Jane Austen Book Club
by Karen Joy Fowler

Kaite Stover's Recommendations

Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff

Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones

The God Of Animals
by Aryn Kyle


Book Doctor Recommendations for December 20, 2007

Mark Luce's Recommendations

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel

Flash Man
by George MacDonald Fraser

Doc Savage: “Resurrection Day” and “Repel”
by Kenneth Robeson


BEST OF 2007:

The Falling Man
by Don DeLillo

The Pest House
by Jim Crace

Away
by Amy Bloom

The Shock Doctrine
by Naomi Klein

Kaite Stover's Recommendations

Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangsters in the Public Library
by Don Borchert

Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver

BEST OF 2007:

Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill

Luncheon of the Boating Party
by Susan Vreeland

My Fellow Americans
by Keir Graff

John Mark Eberhart's
Recommendations

Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years
edited by Rolling Stone

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age – the 20s, 30s and 40s
edited by Otto Penzler

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

BEST OF 2007:

Einstein
by Walter Isaacson

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
by David Michaelis

 


Book Doctor Recommendations for November 26, 2007


Jeffrey Anne Goudie's
Recommendations

A Christmas Memory  
By:  Truman Capote

The Girl’s Like Spaghetti
By:  Lynn Truss

Life Happens
By:  Connie Schultz

A West Wind Rises
By:  Bruce Cutler
 

John Mark Eberhart's
Recommendations

Rise and Shine
By:  Anna Quindlen

I Am Legend
By:  Richard Matheson

Roughing It 
By:  Mark Twain
 

Mark Luce's
Recommendations

Gentlemen of the Road
By:  Michael Chabon

The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus letter Z!
By:  Steve Martin, Roz Chast

Woe To Live On
By:  Daniel Woodrell




Book Doctor Recommendations for October 11, 2007

 
Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Doris Lessing

The Wind Blows Away Our Words
The Good Terrorist
The Golden Notebook

JEFFREY GOUDIE's Recommendations

The Melancholy Fate of Captain Lewis
By:  Michael Pritchett

 
The Almost Moon
By:  Alice Sebold
 

STEVE PAUL's Recommendations

The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
By:  Diane Ackerman 

The Farther Shore
By:  Matthew Eck

 

KAITE STOVER's Recommendations

 
Babylon’s Ark
By:  Lawrence Anthony 

The Card
By:  Michael O’Keefe and Teri Thompson

 

Listener Recommended

Persepolis 1 and 2
By:  Marjane Satrapi


Book Doctor Recommendations for September 17, 2007


JOHN MARK EBERHART

The Farther Shore
By: Matthew Eck
 
The Preacher and the President: Billy Graham in the White House
By:  Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
 

The Impact Zone: Mastering Golf’s Moment of Truth
By: Bobby Clampett and Andy Brumer
 

MARK LUCE

Away
By: Amy Bloom

Roget’s Thesaurus in Dictionary Form 3rd Edition

Vintage Didion
By: Joan Didion
 

JEFFREY GOUDIE

Run
By: Ann Patchett
 

The Inheritance of Loss
By:  Kiran Desai 

And Tango Makes Three
By: Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Illustrations By:  Henry Cole
 

Listener Recommended
 

The Center of Everything
By:  Laura Moriarty

House of Meetings
By:  Martin Amis

NPR Books

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