NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

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257 Works 281,099 Books 9,963 Reviews ½ 3.9
Years:
All, 2009 (46), 2008 (58), 2007 (53), 2006 (100)
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The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
2009
The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard
2009
Rose's Heavenly Cakes by Rose Levy Beranbaum
2009
Photowisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art by Lewis Blackwell
2009
Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life by Graydon Carter
2009
Savory Baking by Mary Cech
2009
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
2009
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
2009
The Contact Sheet by Steve Crist
2009
Everything Matters! by Jr. Ron Currie
2009
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
2009
The Craft of Baking: Cakes, Cookies, and Other Sweets with Ideas for Inventing Your Own by Karen DeMasco
2009
Science: The Definitive Visual Guide by Robert Dinwiddie
2009
Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan
2009
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis
2009
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble
2009
Painting Today by Tony Godfrey
2009
Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans by Sarah Greenough
2009
The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven
2009
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog
2009
The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination by Mary Ann Hoberman
2009
Blame by Michelle Huneven
2009
The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones
2009
Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
2009
Stir: Mixing It Up in the Italian Tradition by Barbara Lynch
2009
The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid
2009
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
2009
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
2009
Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle
2009
Asian Dumplings: Mastering Gyoza, Spring Rolls, Samosas, and More by Andrea Nguyen
2009
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life by Todd Oldham
2009
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
2009
Gourmet Today: More than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen by Ruth Reichl
2009
Artisan Breads Every Day: Fast and Easy Recipes for World-Class Breads by Peter Reinhart
2009
The Armies by Evelio Rosero
2009
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera by Ron Schick
2009
The Sartorialist (Volume 1) by Scott Schuman
2009
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka
2009
The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics by Art Spiegelman
2009
Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing by Ilan Stavans
2009
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set by Peter Straub
2009
The Hour Between: A Novel by Sebastian Stuart
2009
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2009
Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi
2009
Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You by Terry Walters
2009
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s by Edmund White
2009
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams
2008
Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert by Scott Adams
2008
The Spice Merchant's Daughter: Recipes and Simple Spice Blends for the American Kitchen by Christina Arokiasamy
2008
ABC3D by Marion Bataille
2008
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman
2008
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2008
The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard
2008
Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley
2008
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
2008
Skyscrapers Of The Midwest by Joshua Cotter
2008
The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein
2008
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
2008
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Rachel Fershleiser
2008
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman
2008
The Chinaman by Friedrich Glauser
2008
Still Alive: A Temporary Condition by Herbert Gold
2008
Alan's War by Emmanuel Guibert
2008
660 Curries by Raghavan Iyer
2008
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy
2008
The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show by Lynne Rossetto Kasper
2008
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
2008
Basrayatha: The Story of a City by Muhammad Khudayyir
2008
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
2008
Performance: Richard Avedon by John^Gregory Lahr, Andre^Nichols, Mike^Tharp, Twyla^Uchida, Mitsuko
2008
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2008
Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz
2008
Stories by Doris Lessing
2008
Baked: New Frontiers in Baking by Matt Lewis
2008
Ten: All the Foods We Love and 10 Perfect Recipes for Each by Sheila Lukins
2008
Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point by Alex MacLean
2008
Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing on Set by Mary Ellen Mark
2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
2008
Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
2008
The Sweet Melissa Baking Book: Recipes from the Beloved Bakery for Everyone's Favorite Treats by Melissa Murphy
2008
Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart by Pauline Nguyen
2008
John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2008
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century by James Orbinski
2008
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
2008
Heavy Liquid by Paul Pope
2008
The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture by Phaidon Press
2008
Things I have learned in my life so far by Stefan Sagmeister
2008
Art of the Modern Movie Poster: International Postwar Style and Design by Judith Salavetz
2008
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
2008
Two Dudes, One Pan: Maximum Flavor from a Minimalist Kitchen by Jon Shook
2008
A Road Trip Journal by Stephen Shore
2008
Death Vows by Richard Stevenson
2008
Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
2008
The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008 by The New York Times
2008
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
2008
Wham-O Super-Book: Celebrating 60 Years Inside the Fun Factory by Tim Walsh
2008
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America by Matt Weiland
2008
Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America by Michael Williams
2008
Local by Brian Wood
2008
Dear Darkness by Kevin Young
2008
Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman
2008
Local
2008
Saveur Cooks: Authentic American by Colman Andrews
2007
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
2007
Away by Amy Bloom
2007
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
2007
One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life; A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard
2007
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
2007
Dior by Farid Chenoune
2007
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
2007
American Ruins by Arthur Drooker
2007
My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes by Melanie Dunea
2007
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province by Fuchsia Dunlop
2007
Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit by Bark Editors
2007
Time America: An Illustrated History by Editors of Time Magazine
2007
L.A. Noir by James Ellroy
2007
The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
2007
Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon
2007
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War by Ashley Gilbertson
2007
The Ghost by Robert Harris
2007
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass
2007
Savory Baking from the Mediterranean: Focaccias, Flatbreads, Rusks, Tarts, and Other Breads by Anissa Helou
2007
Knife Skills Illustrated: A User's Manual by Peter Hertzmann
2007
Great Bar Food at Home by Kate Heyhoe
2007
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
2007
Alison Jackson: Confidential by Alison Jackson
2007
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones
2007
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
2007
The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without by Mollie Katzen
2007
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor
2007
The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays by William Kittredge
2007
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E. L. Konigsburg
2007
Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950 by Alexandra Lapierre
2007
Ghost by Alan Lightman
2007
The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family by John Lithgow
2007
Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen by Deborah Madison
2007
MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin by Don Martin
2007
Nashville Portraits: Legends of Country Music by Jim McGuire
2007
Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich
2007
© Murakami by Takashi Murakami
2007
Modern Indian Cooking by Hari Nayak
2007
The Deep: the extraordinary creatures of the abyss by Claire Nouvian
2007
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler
2007
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
2007
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick
2007
The Assassins Gallery by David L. Robbins
2007
2500 Recipes: Everyday to Extraordinary by Andrew Schloss
2007
Christmas Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
2007
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2007
Where Flavor Was Born: Recipes and Culinary Travels Along the Indian Ocean Spice Route by Andreas Viestad
2007
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations by Vincent Virga
2007
It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh
2007
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
2007
Sundown, Yellow Moon: A Novel by Larry Watson
2007
Dr. Johnson's Doorknob: And Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses by Liz Workman
2007
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
2006
The Artful Dog: Canines from The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art
2006
Mr. Maxwell's Mouse by Frank Asch
2006
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk by Steven Lee Beeber
2006
The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
2006
American Religious Poems: An Anthology by Harold Bloom
2006
Big Sky Cooking by Meredith Auld Brokaw
2006
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
2006
Flamingos on the Roof by Calef Brown
2006
Chowder by Peter Brown
2006
Please, Mr. Einstein by Jean-Claude Carrière
2006
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
2006
Eight Wild Nights: A Family Hanukkah Tale by Brian P. Cleary
2006
Chairs: A History by Florence de Dampierre
2006
On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star by John Dickerson
2006
G is for One Gzonk! An Alpha-Number-Bet Book by Tony DiTerlizzi
2006
Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales: Volume One: Aladdin, Anansi, East of the Sun/West of the Moon, The Five Chinese Brothers by Rabbit Ears
2006
The Dog Ate It: Cooking for Yourself and Your Four-Legged Friends by Linda West Eckhardt
2006
This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt
2006
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
2006
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey
2006
King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking: Delicious Recipes Using Nutritious Whole Grains by King Arthur Flour
2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
2006
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
2006
365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental
2006
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
2006
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment by Linda Gordon
2006
Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan
2006
Winslow Homer: An American Vision by Randall C. Griffin
2006
Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (HOW) by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
2006
Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons From Darwin's Lost Notebooks by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
2006
Instant Entertaining by Donna Hay
2006
Deep South Parties: How to Survive the Southern Cocktail Hour Without a Box of French Onion Soup Mix, a Block of Processed Cheese, or a Cocktail Weenie by Robert St. John
2006
Eddie's Kingdom by D. B. Johnson
2006
Puccini's Ghosts by Morag Joss
2006
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel by Ken Kalfus
2006
Cartoon America: Comic Art in the Library of Congress by Harry Katz
2006
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin
2006
Seedheads in the Garden by Noël Kingsbury
2006
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
2006
Humankind by Yoshio Komastu
2006
Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
2006
Life: A Journey Through Time by Frans Lanting
2006
Kampung Boy by Lat
2006
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear
2006
My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
2006
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape by Barry Lopez
2006
Cats and Their Slaves: An Anthology of Worship by Michelle Lovric
2006
America by the Yard: Cirkut Camera: Images from the Early Twentieth Century by Robert B. MacKay
2006
Life: The Platinum Anniversary Collection: 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography by Editors of Life Magazine
2006
Real Simple: Celebrations by Editors of Real Simple Magazine
2006
Resurrection by Tucker Malarkey
2006
Kate: the Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J. Mann
2006
Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
2006
Magic Time: A Novel by Doug Marlette
2006
Sold by Patricia McCormick
2006
After This by Alice McDermott
2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
2006
Zuzu's Wishing Cake by Linda Michelin
2006
100 Caterpillars: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica by Jeffrey C. Miller
2006
The Best American Comics 2006 by Anne Elizabeth Moore
2006
The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro
2006
The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea by Anne Sibley O'Brien
2006
Jamie's Italy by Jamie Oliver
2006
Shlemiel Crooks by Anna Olswanger
2006
The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
2006
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
2006
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2006
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
2006
Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies by Lauren Redniss
2006
Merry Un-Christmas by Mike Reiss
2006
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex
2006
Happy in the Kitchen: The Craft of Cooking, the Art of Eating by Michel Richard
2006
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts
2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts
2006
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum
2006
Journey to the Blue Moon: In Which Time is Lost and Then Found Again by Rebecca Rupp
2006
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters by Robert Sabuda
2006
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days by James Salter
2006
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
2006
A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz
2006
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
2006
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
2006
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel
2006
The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships by Robert B. Silvers
2006
Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine, and Having Great Relationships by Alpana Singh
2006
The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater
2006
On Agate Hill by Lee Smith
2006
Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
2006
A Field Guide to Roadside Technology by Ed Sobey
2006
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
2006
Mexican Calendar Girls: Chicas de calendarios Mexicanos by Angela Villalba
2006
The Zero by Jess Walter
2006
Triangle by Katharine Weber
2006
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
2006
Dizzy by Jonah Winter
2006
Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories by Bonny Wolf
2006
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
2006
Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods by Julie Zickefoose
2006

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