In this season of tight wallets and open hearts, it might be wise to choose holiday gifts that will stay around for a while. And who better to turn to for reliably stirring seasonal picks than your trusty independent bookseller?
This year, the booksellers reach into their shelves and pull out tomes on a wide range of weighty topics, from a family in mourning in Jonathan Topper’s This Is Where I Leave You to a Nigerian girl, re-building a family under duress, in Little Bee. Other selections are heavy simply by virtue of their page count: the four-volume collection of Paris Review Interviews packs 50 years of conversations with some of our greatest writers into some 2000 pages. Which should just about keep the book lover on your list occupied until next year.
List of books and full story at NPR
The books are
The books selected are:
The Hour Between: A Novel
http://bit.ly/5nXlAh
Await Your Reply
http://bit.ly/4pb9n2
Little Bee
http://bit.ly/5GoOea
Blame
http://bit.ly/6QrYie
Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life
http://bit.ly/5FkWMx
Bad Things Happen
http://bit.ly/5JRR82
Going Away Shoes
http://bit.ly/8TPk4k
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
http://bit.ly/6tZ4BY
This is Where I Leave You
http://bit.ly/51xWUs
The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination
http://bit.ly/8TZtsx
The Paris Review Interviews, Vols. 1-4 [BOX SET]
http://bit.ly/4Z1NzF
Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death,
Happiness, and the Meaning of Life
http://bit.ly/5tjaN0
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
http://bit.ly/7Hwqzn
The Contact Sheet
http://bit.ly/6lyG15
Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens
http://bit.ly/6htBJu