It’s the time of year for kicking off your boots in front of a crackling fire and disappearing into a good book. Host Jane Lindholm talks with Claire Benedict of Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, and Penny McConnel of The Norwich Bookstore, about what’s flying off the shelves this winter.
And we want to hear from you. What are you reading? Are you immersed in a good thriller? Engrossed in a historical novel? Or maybe you’re Mastering The Art of French Cooking with Julia Child. We want to know what’s keeping you turning pages this winter.
Also, we visit the Rokeby Museum
in Ferrisburgh, and talk with director Jane Williamson. The site was a family farm that became a stop
on the Underground Railroad. And,
Williamson says the story of the farm forces us to rethink our ideas of how the
Underground Railroad worked in the Northeast.
Books included in program:
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
Winter Girls, Laurie Halse Anderson
Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
The Postmistress, Sarah Blake
Await Your Reply, Dan Choan
Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story, Wally Lamb
Holiness and the Feminine Spirit: The Art of Janet Mckenzie
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin
Stones into Schools, Greg Mortenson
Mountains Beyond
Mountains, Tracy Kidder
Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Red Moon at Sharpsburg,
Rosemary Wells
Steal Away
Of Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston
Villa Incognito, Tom Robbins
Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Ash, Malinda Lo
What to Eat, What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison,
Camille Dungy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth
Grahame-Smith
Julie and Julia, Julie Powell
Living Oprah, Robyn Okrant
The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
Thin is the New Happy, Valerie Frankel
Juliet Naked, Nick Hornby
The Wilde Women, Paula Wall
The Rock Orchard, Paula Wall
Bapello, Todd Shepard
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
Secrets of Eden, Chris Bohjalian
Walking to Gatlinburg, Howard Frank Mosher
From Away, David Carkeet
Double Black, Wendy Clinch
The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny
The Eave of Heaven, Andrew X. Pham
Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned
about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat, Gwen Cooper
Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert
Complications, Atul Gawande
How to Rob an Armored Car, Iain Levison
Flawed Light: Women Poets and Alcoholism, Brett Millier
Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich
The Unnamed, Joshua Ferris
Claire Benedict’s Picks:
FICTION
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
Little Bee by Chris Cleave (pb in Feb)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
UPCOMING FICTION
Shadow Tag by Louise
Erdrich
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
Secrets of Eden by Chris
Bohjalian
Walking to Gatlinberg by Howard
Frank Mosher
MYSTERY
The Brutal Telling or
anything by Louise Penny
Thereby Hangs the Tail and
Dog Gone It by Spencer Quinn
The First Rule by Robert
Crais
The Girl Who Played With Fire
and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Hi-tech thrillers, the dark
underworld of Sweden with a frighteningly tough female protagonist
Double Black by Wendy
Clinch
A "ski diva" mystery set in Vermont
Death at the Alma Mater by
G.M. Malliet
Funny satirical, old-school
mystery: Death of a Cozy Writer,
Death and the Lit Chick
MEMOIR
The Mennonite in the Little
Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Lit by Mary Karr
The Happiness Project by
Gretchen Ruben
"Stunt Memoir" i.e. Living Oprah,
Julie and Julia
Stones into Schools by
Greg Mortenson
YOUNG ADULT
Need &
Captivate by Carrie Jones Suspense and romance with a supernatural element – for fans
of Twilight
Wishing for Tomorrow by Hillary McKay a sequel to A Little Princess about the girls Sarah Crewe
left behind at the orphanage
Leviathan by Scott Westerfield Steam Punk genre: dystopian history & fantasy from the
steam era
YA THAT ADULTS READ:
A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper for fans of I Capture the Castle
The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare City of Bones, City of Glass, City of Ash paranormal fantasy
Penny McConnel and the Norwich Bookstore Picks:
"After You’ve Gone" Jeffrey Lent
"The Farmer’s Daughter" Jim Harrison
"Alice I have Been"
"True Confections" Katharine Weber
"The Lacuna" Barbara Kingsolver
"The Privileges" Jonathan Dee
"Swan Thieves" Elizabeth Kostova
"Wolf Hall" Hillary Mantel
"Under The Dome" Stephen King
"War Dance"s Sherman Alexi
"Double Black" Wendy Clinch
"Committed" Elizabeth Gilbert
"Book of Salts" Monique Truong
"Remarkable Creatures" Tracy Chevalier
"Stones Into Schools" Greg Mortenson
"The Postmistress" Sarah Blake
"Shadow Tag" Louise Erdrich
"Manhood For Amateurs" Michael Chabon
"The Women" T.C. Boyle
"The Bird Catcher" Laura Jacobs
"Too Much Happiness" Alice Munro
"Where The God of Love Hangs Out" Amy Bloom
"The Girl Who Fell From The Sk" Heidi Durrow
"Reliable Wife" Robert Goolrick
"The Piano Teacher" Janice Lee