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Recommended Books
Recommended by Booksellers to Susan Stamberg
(Independent Booksellers Picks: Fiction and Food)
The Assassins Gallery, by David L. Robbins, paperback, 544 pages, list price: $7.50
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke, hardcover, 305 pages, $23.95
Away, by Amy Bloom, hardcover 256 pages, list price: $23.95
Ghost, by Alan Lightman, hardcover, 256 pages, list price: $23.00
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, by Pierre Bayard, hardcover, 208 pages, list price: $19.95
Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones, hardcover, 272 pages, list price: $20.00
My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals, by Melanie Dunea, hardcover, 224 pages, list price: $39.95
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World, by E. L. Konigsburg, hardcover, 256 pages, list price: $16.99
Novels in Three Lines, by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante, paperback, 208 pages, list price: $14.00
The Poets' Corner, compiled by John Lithgow, hardcover, 304 pages, list price: $24.99
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote, by Truman Capote, hardcover, 528 pages, list price: $28.95
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink, edited by David Remnick, hardcover, 608 pages, list price: $29.95
Sundown, Yellow Moon, by Larry Watson, hardcover, 320 pages, list price: $25.95
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, hardcover, 1296 pages, list price: $37.00
Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures, 1850-1950, by Alexandra Lapierre and Christel Mouchard, hardcover, 240 pages, list price: $45.00
Gift Books Recommended by Jerome Weeks
(Big-Bang Gift Books: Visual Dazzle, Thoughtful Thrills)
Alison Jackson: Confidential, by Alison Jackson, hardcover, 264 pages, list price: $39.99
American Ruins, By Arthur Drooker, hardcover, 144 pages, list price: $45.00
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age — The '20s, '30s & '40s, Edited by Otto Penzler, paperback, 1158 pages, list price: $25.00
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations, by Vincent Virga, hardcover, 272 pages, list price $60.00
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss, by Claire Nouvian, hardcover, 256 pages, list price: $45.00
Dior, by Farid Chenoune, photography by Laziz Hamani, hardcover, 383 pages, list Price: $150.00
Dr. Johnson's Doorknob: And Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses, by Liz Workman, hardcover, 208 pages, list price: $25.00
Murakami, by Takashi Murakami, Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui, Scott Rothkopf, hardcover, 330 pages, list price: $65.00
Nashville Portraits: Legends of Country Music, by Jim McGuire; introduction by William Ferris, hardcover, 160 pages, list Price: $34.95
Cookbook Recommendations from T. Susan Chang
(The Season for Seasonings: Holiday Cookbooks)
2500 Recipes, by Andrew Schloss, paperback, 384 pages, list price: $24.95
The Art of Simple Food, by Alice Waters, hardcover, 416 pages, list price: $35.00
Knife Skills Illustrated, by Peter Hertzmann, hardcover, 384 pages, list price: $29.95
Modern Indian Cooking, by Hari Nayak and Vikas Khanna, hardcover, 191 pages, list price: $29.95
Pure Dessert, by Alice Medrich, hardcover, 272 pages, list price: $35.00
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook, by Fuchsia Dunlop, hardcover, 256 pages, list price: $29.95
The River Cottage Meat Book, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, hardcover, 543 pages, list price: $40.00
Savory Baking from the Mediterranean, by Anissa Helou, hardcover, 352 pages, list price: $29.95
The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without, by Mollie Katzen, hardcover, 160 pages, list price: $22.95
Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen, by Deborah Madison, paperback, 240 pages, list price: $19.95
Where Flavor Was Born, by Andreas Viestad, hardcover, 288 pages, list price: $40.00
Recommended by Karen Grigsby Bates
(Secrets, Scandals, Simplicity: Stockings Full of Books)
The Completely MAD Don Martin, by the Editors of Mad Magazine, hardcover, 1200 pages, list Price: $150.00
The Ghost, by Robert Harris, hardcover 352 pages, list price: $26.00
Great Bar Food at Home, by Kate Heyhoe, hardcover, 127 pages, list price: $17.95
Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit, by the editors of The Bark, hardcover, 352 pages, list price: $25.00
It's All Too Much, by Peter Walsh, hardcover 240 pages, list price: $22.00
LA Noir, edited by Denise Hamilton, paperback, 348 pages, list price: $15.95
Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan, hardcover, 384 pages, list price: $23.95
One Drop, My Father's Hidden Life by Bliss Broyard, hardcover, 528 pages, list price: $24.99
Saveur Cooks Authentic American, by the editors of Saveur Magazine, hardcover, 320 pages, list price: $24.95
Time America: An Illustrated History, by the editors of Time Magazine, hardcover, 266 pages, list price: $29.95
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, by Judith Jones, hardcover, 304 pages, list price: $24.95
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, by Ashley Gilbertson, hardcover, 260 pages, list price: $35.00
Recommended by Alan Cheuse
Christmas Stories, by Diana Secker Tesdell, hardcover, 400 pages, list price: $23.16
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, by Ben Ratliff, hardcover, 272 pages, list price: $24.00
Martha Graham - Dance on Film, starring Martha Graham, 2 B&W DVDs, list price: $39.99
The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays, by William Kittredge, paperback, 256 pages, list price: $15.00
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, hardcover, 384 pages, list price: $25.95.
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, by Garrison Keillor, hardcover, 256 pages, list price: $25.95.
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005, by Robert Hass, hardcover, 96 pages, list price: $22.95.
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