Around Noon Summer Book Call-In Show

Aired July 6, 2004

With panelists:
Suzanne DeGaetano From Mac’s Backs Paperbacks,
Bob Ethington, from the Akron-Summit County Public Library
Jane Kessler from Appletree Books

Larry McMurtry

• All My Friends are Going to Be Strangers
• Some Can Whistle

Joe Formicella

• The Wreck of the Twilight Limited

Eliot Pattison

• Beautiful Ghosts
  The latest in a series following a Beijing detective inspector living among the outcast monks in the mountains of Tibet, called Meaty Mysteries.

David Sedaris

• Dress Your Family in Denim & Corduroy
  The latest from the NPR favorite, Sedaris’s book hit the stands at Number One on the bestsellers list only to be upset by Bill Clinton’s My Life
• Me Talk Pretty One Day and Naked
  Old Sedaris favorites now available in paperback

J. Maarten Troost

• The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
  A comic look at culture clash.

Dennis McFarland

• Prince Edward
  Told through the eyes of a ten year old boy, this historical novel tells of the fateful summer of 1959 when Virginia’s Prince Edward County closed it’s public schools rathern than open them to black children.

John Grisham

• A Painted House

Brett Milano

• Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting

Peter McWilliams

• Ain’t Nobodies Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country

Alton Brown

• I’m Just Here for the Food
  The Food Network Favorite describes what happens when food meats heat. Not just a typical cookbook, Alton makes food scientific and fun.

Susan Orlean

• The Orchid Thief

Dan Chaon

• You Remind Me of Me
  This is the local authors’ first novel. Chaon has already received a lot of attention for his previous short story collections: Among the Missing & Fitting Ends.

Sarah Willis

• A Good Distance
  Another local author, Willis’s latest novel reveals the challenges and rewards of caring for a mother with Alzheimer’s.

Jeanne Duprau

• City of Ember
  A good introduction to science fiction for young readers.

Christopher Paolini

• Erogon
  From a 17-year-old author, this is a fantasy for young readers.

W.E.B. Griffin

• Brotherhood of War
  Griffin, a Retired Army Colonel has written several series, all focused on the military.

Jane Jacobs

• Dark Age Ahead
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Gore Vidal

• Understanding America’s Terrorist Crisis: What Should Be Done?

Norman Davies

• Rising ‘44
  Focuses on the Warsaw Rising of 1944, a two month battle that left the city in ruins as Polish insurgents battled the Germans.

Lemony Snicket

• A Series of Unfortunate Events
  A series recommended for young readers.

Sue Kidd

• The Secret Life of Bees

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

• The Muslims Of America

Tracy Kidder

• Mountains Beyond Mountains

Sherwood Anderson

• Winesburg, Ohio

Nevil Shute

• On the Beach
• A Town Called Alice
• In the West

Claudio O’Keefe

• Mother: Famous Writers Celebrate Motherhood With a Treasury of Short Stories, Essays, and Poems

Further Recommendations:

Dan Brown

• The DaVinci Code

Ian Caldwell

• The Rule of Four

Karen Joy Fowler

• Jane Austen Book Club

Mark Winegardner

• The Godfather Returns

Mark Haddon

• Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Shirley Hazzard

• Great Fire (winner of The National Book Award 2003)

Edward P. Jones

• The Known World (winner of the Pulitzer )

Cokie Roberts

• Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Nation

Caroline Alexander

• The Bounty: True Story of Mutiny on the Bounty

Jon Krakauer

• Under the Banner of Heaven

Erik Larsen

• Devil in the White City

Davy Rothbart

• Found: Best Lost Tossed and Forgotten Items From Around The World

Hunter S. Thompson

• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 1972

David Foster Wallace

• Oblivion (Short stories)

Chuck Palahniuk

• Stranger than Fiction

Paul Feig

• Kick Me – Adventures in Adolescence