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HOLIDAY READING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR KIDS
1. Madeleine L’Engle’s A WRINKLE IN TIME 2. Madeleine L’ Engle’s AND BOTH WERE YOUNG 3. Judith Guest’s ORDINARY PEOPLE 4. J. D. Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE 5. Betty Smith’s A TREE GROWS IN...
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Book of the Week: LOVE STORY by Erich Segal
Erich Segal’s, LOVE STORY; Very young, potent love; very young, potent death.
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Book of the Week: THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe’s, THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES; the collision of snobbish Wall Street with the backstreet of the Bronx.
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Book of the Week: MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN by Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George’s, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN; Sam Gribley is an unhappy city boy who runs away to the mountains, learns to survive solitude, and thrive within the peculiarities of nature.
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Book of the Week: THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, THE SCARLET LETTER; the daring Hester Prynne has an affair, births a daughter, and manages their lives, despite a narrow minded society.
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January 2017 Book Recommendations
Arnost Lustig’s, A PRAYER FOR KATERINA HOROVITZOVA; just before a young girl is gassed by the Nazis, she gets her revenge. Jerzy Kosinski’s, THE PAINTED BIRD; an abandoned boy wanders through dangerous...
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Book of the Week: A PRAYER FOR KATERINA HOROVITZOVA by Arnost Lustig
Arnost Lustig’s, A PRAYER FOR KATERINA HOROVITZOVA; just before a young girl is gassed by the Nazis, she gets her revenge.
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Book of the Week: THE PAINTED BIRD by Jerzy Kosinski
An abandoned boy wanders through dangerous World War II Europe–and survives.
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Book of the Week: JAY’S JOURNAL by Anonymous
An intelligent, popular high school student falls in with a gaggle of bad kids, drugs, and the occult.
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Book of the Week: THE FIRST FOUR YEARS by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Difficulties and desolation on the prairie.
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Book of the Week: THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS by James M. Cain
A posthumously discovered mystery by the author of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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February 2017 Book Recommendations
Barbara Pym’s, QUARTET IN AUTUMN; a story of how four older people—connected only casually— manage their isolation. Ernest Hemingway’s, A MOVEABLE FEAST; a gaggle of literati moves to 1920s Paris. Fran...
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Book of the Week: QUARTET IN AUTUMN by Barbara Pym
A story of how four older people—connected only casually— manage their isolation.
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Book of the Week: A MOVEABLE FEAST by Ernest Hemingway
A gaggle of literati moves to 1920s Paris.
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Book of the Week: THE FRAN LEBOWITZ READER by Fran Lebowitz
Acerbic humor from the 1970s and 1980s by the author of Social Studies and Metropolitan Life.
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March 2017 Book Recommendations
John Mills’s, STONER; a lonely World War 1 era farm boy defies his parents, and becomes a professor with dreams that never happen. Christina Baker Kline’s, ORPHAN TRAIN; A foster teenager and a...
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Book of the Week: GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee
Scout comes of age, and so do her prejudices.
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Book of the Week: STONER by John Williams
A lonely World War I era farm boy defies his parents, and becomes a professor with dreams that never happen.
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Book of the Week: ORPHAN TRAIN by Christina Baker Kline
A foster teenager and a well-off elderly widow discover poignant similarities in their pasts.
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Book of the Week: FEAR OF DYING by Erica Jong
Forty years after Fear of Flying, Isadora Wing and her alter-egos stare down aging and mortality.
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