Weekday
Holiday Book Fun with Nancy Pearl
December 5, 2007

The list was compiled from listener calls, emails and recommendations, by Nancy Pearl. 
* Indicates Nancy Pearl recommendation

A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry *
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life, by J. Craig Venter *
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
A Story Like the Wind, by Laurens van der Post
Abuela, by Arthur Dorros *
After All These Years: A Novel, by Susan Isaacs
Amazing Grace: Urdu and English, by Mary Hoffman, Caroline Binch, and Shamsu Agha
Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt *
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman
Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, by Ian Fleming
Desert Queen. The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell. Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia., by Janet Wallach *
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff, by Rosemary Mahoney
Escape from Warsaw (Original title: The Silver Sword), by Ian Serraillier
Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit *
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
Freedom at Midnight, by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
George's Secret Key to the Universe, by Stephen Hawking and Lucy Hawking
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell *
Gonzo, by Hunter S Thompson
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, by Jann S. Wenner
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie
Here Be Monsters!, by Alan Snow
Igraine The Brave, by Cornelia Funke
Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke *
Inkspell, by Cornelia Funke *
Isla, by Arthur Dorros and Elisa Kleven *
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, by Adam Hochschild
King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War, by Catrine Clay *
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression, by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Little House on the Prarie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
Magic Hour, by Susan Isaacs
Martha Quest, by Doris Lessing *
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Mouse Noses on Toast, by Daren King and David Roberts
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh/Newbery Summer, by Robert C. O'Brien
Neverwhere: A Novel, by Neil Gaiman
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, by Kaye Gibbons
Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton *
Past Perfect: A Novel, by Susan Isaacs
Run, by Ann Patchett
Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel, by Ann Pancake
Such a Long Journey, by Rohinton Mistry *
Sunshine, by Robin McKinley *
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie *
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, by Alan Greenspan
The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels), by Laurie R. King
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink, by Robert D. Morris *
The Book of the Dun Cow, by Walter Wangerin
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder and Amy Drevenstedt *
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
The Curse of Lono, by Hunter S. Thompson
The Golden Compass, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials, Book 1), by Philip Pullman *
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing *
The Ha-Ha: A Novel, by Dave King *
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel, by Margaret Atwood
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick *
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940, by William Manchester
The Little Brute Family, by Russell Hoban and Lillian Hoban *
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie
The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff: You Wish, by Jason Lethcoe *
The Phenomenon of Life: The Nature of Order, Book 1 An Essay of the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (The Nature of Order, Book 1), by Chris Alexander
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.), by Barbara Kingsolver
The Quiet Girl: A Novel, by Peter Hoeg and Nadia Christensen *
The Scarecrow and His Servant, by Philip Pullman
The Sisters Grimm Book 1: The Fairy-Tale Detectives (Sisters Grimm), by Michael Buckley
The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
The Toughest Indian in the World, by Sherman Alexie
The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
The Witch's Boy, by Michael Gruber *
These is My Words, by Nancy E. Turner
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel J. Levitin *
'Tis: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt
Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy), by Jean-claude Izzo and Howard Curtis
Warriors Box Set: Volumes 1 to 6 (Warriors), by Erin Hunter
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang *