Faith's motto on The Book Show is: Life is short, but it can be ever so wide.
Join Faith and her book buddies for a call-in show recommending terrific books to read in all categories. If you're in a book club, please tell us what you've read and enjoyed.
And, hey, kids, we'd love to hear from you about books you love.
Mystery, classics, science, history, politics, humor, cookbooks, memoirs, biographies, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, instruction, graphic novels, health, happiness, wisdom—you'll hear it all on our book show.
The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2014
- The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant, Roz Chast
- On Immunity, Eula Biss
- Euphoria, Lily King
- All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- Redeployment, Phil Klay
- Department of Speculation, Jenny Offill
- Penelope Fitzgerald, Hermione Lee
- Family Life, Akhil Sharma
Gift Books for the Holidays
Our crew recommends some terrific ideas for the gift season. Faith's list includes the tip that if you're afraid to disturb your bedmate and you don't have a light, the screen of your smart phone is often bright enough to read by. Here's our list of recommendations:
- Goat Song, Brad Kessler
- The History of New York in 101 Objects, Sam Roberts
- Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Gluck
- The Lion and the Bird, Marianne Dubuc
- Unbroken, Laura Hildebrand
- The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
- The Residue Years, Mitchell Jackson
- All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- Transatlantic, Colum McCann
- Liquid Intelligence, Dave Arnold
- The Snow Queen, Michael Cunningham
- Riding the Dog, Sybil Rosen
- The Price of Destiny, David Vonderheide
- Thirteen Soldiers, Mark Slater and John McCain
- What If?, Randall Munroe
- Once Upon an Alphabet, Oliver Jeffers
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
- Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Read The Economist's obituary for P.D. James.
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GUESTS:
- Amy Bloom is the author, most recently, of Lucky Us.
- Roxanne Coady is the president and CEO of RJ Julia Bookseller.
- Jill Lepore is the author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
- Rose Quiello is a professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University.
- Pat Towers was the founding editor of Vanity Fair magazine.
MUSIC:
- “Gne Gne,” Montefiori Cocktail
- “Indian Winter,” Kristian Dunn
- Wonder Woman theme by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel
- “Rewrite,” Paul Simon
Lori Mack, Jonathan McNicol, and Marian Roy contributed to this show.
