Our Favorites in 2013 on The Point with Mindy Todd
Today’s The Point with Mindy Todd was pre-recorded so no calls from listeners this morning, but if you did have a favorite read in 2013, feel free to post your favorite in the comments, or send us an e-mail at info@falmouthpubliclibrary.org, and we’ll compile all your favorites and share them. Mindy, Melanie, and I all found some great books to read this year, and hope you had a great year of reading, and wishing you many more great reads in 2014.
Mindy’s Picks
Bunker Hill: a city, a siege, a revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
Defiant Brides: the untold story of two revolutionary-era women and the radical men they married by Nancy Rubin Stuart
Superman: the high-flying history of America’s most enduring hero by Larry Tye
E. B. White on Dogs edited by Martha White
Letters of E. B. White Revised Edition, edited by Martha White
Jill’s Picks
Non-Fiction
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong
Glorious Good Times: the first hundred years of the Quissett Yacht Club edited by Prosser Gifford, Nina Hocker, and Stephen Chalmers
Fiction
An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky by Dan Beachy-Quick
S. conceived by J. J. Abrams and written by Doug Dorst
Collected Early Stories by John Updike, edited by Christopher Carduff
Collected Later Stores by John Updike, edited by Christopher Carduff
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Reference
A Reader’s Book of Days by Tom Nissley
The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
No Time for Children’s Favorites of the Year
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by John O’Brien
Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner
Melanie’s Picks
Nonfiction/History
Year Zero: 1945 and the aftermath of war by Ian Buruma
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
Fiction
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
The Last Policeman and Countdown City by Ben H. Winters
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Also Recommended (but no time on show):
Light of the World by James Lee Burke
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Returned by Jason Mott
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Reading Now:
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
One of my favorites, was one I didn’t want to read … “Alive: the story of the Andes survivors” by Piers Paul Read. I also was surprised to like “Agent Garbo: the brilliant eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day”. I never knew I had an interest in WWII books or spies. And “I know why the caged bird sings,” the first autobiography by Maya Angelou detailing the first 16 years of her life. I plan to read more of her autobios.
They are all on the Staff Picks cart in the adult collection room of the main library.