"As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her."
-- Erma Bombeck
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Looking for a good book to read? Try these links...
-- Page Turners' list
-- Jim's Lists
-- LAPL Reads
Also, check the L. A Times "Books" section, and the N. Y. Times "Book" page, especially the Sunday page for its book reviews and best seller lists. And, try BookmarksMagazine.com with reviews of current and recent books sorted by genre. In addition, try BookPage.com with interviews and reviews of recent books, and free e-newsletters.
At the end of each Board and annual meeting, we share information on some of our readings and viewings. Here are the
recent recommendations:
Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum - That Used To Be Us: How America Fell
Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Geraldine Brooks - Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Laura Hillenbrand - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Lyanda Lynn Haupt - Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
David L. Ulin (Editor, Los Angeles Times Book Review) - The Lost Art of Reading; Why Books
Matter in a Distracted Time
Nicholas Carr - The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing To Our Brains
Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize)
Maria Riva - Marlene Dietrich
Tea Obreht - Tiger's Wife: a Novel
Midnight in Paris (film)
J. M. G. Le Clezio - Wandering Star
Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain - Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti
Temple Grandin (film)
Lisa See - Shanghai Girls
Kee Malesky - All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge
Roz Savage - Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna
Noam Chomsky - Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
Michael Crosby - Encino (Images of America series)
Walter Mosley - The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Nora's Will (film)
Daisy Hay - Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives
John Buntin - L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Zoe Ferraris - City of Veils
Opera in Cinema Series: Live Performances shown at the movies: Laemmle Theaters in
the Southland.
Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (and the film)
Jeffrey Archer - Paths of Glory
PBS original documentary - Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
Bill Boyarsky, Mark Catalena, Brian Tessier, and Peter Jones - Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers
and Their Times (book)
Isabel Allende - Island Beneath the Sea
Rita Williams-Garcia - One Crazy Summer (ages 9-12, or adult)
Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire (and the film)
Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (and the film)
David Sax - Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of
Jewish Delicatessen
Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Alice Schroeder - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Dave Eggers - Zeitoun
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall : A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
Daniel Levin - The Last Ember
David Weinberger - Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Andrew Lih - The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's
Greatest Encyclopedia
Kathryn Stockett - The Help (and the audiobook)
E. L. Doctorow - Homer & Langley: A Novel
Pearl S. Buck - Peony
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
T.C. Boyle - The Women: A Novel
Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind
Leo Carrillo - The California I Love
Michael Connelly - The Scarecrow
Jeff Jarvis - What would Google Do?
Abigail Yasgur & Joseph Lipner & Barbara Mendes illus. - Max Said YES! The Woodstock
Story (picture book)
Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers; the Story of Success
Harry L. Freund - Love with Noodles; an Amorous Widower's Tale
Barack Obama - Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
William Faulkner - Light in August
Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing
Jeffrey Toobin - The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Dick Francis & Felix Francis - Silks
Ildefonso Falcones - Cathedral of the Sea
Bookmarks - magazine for avid readers, and their website www.bookmarksmagazine.com
Phyllis Lee Levin - Abigail Adams: A Biography
Achy Obejas - Days of Awe (novel about Cuban-Americans and Cuba)
James Frey - Bright Shiny Morning
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Harry Harrison - 50 in 50: Fifty Stories for Fifty Years!
Joyce Cheney - Aprons: A Celebration
James M. McPherson - "To the Best of My Ability:" The American Presidents
Joyce Carol Oates - The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
Joanne Fluke - The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swenson Mysteries)
Noah Gordon - The Last Jew
Allegra Goodman - Intuition
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote
Peace . . . One School at a Time
E. L. Doctorow - Ragtime
Mark Glamack - Littluns and the Book of Darkness (www.littluns.net)(for teens & above)
Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen - The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes
Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages that Feature Them
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India
and Indonesia
Diane Ackerman - Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Sophie Kinsella - Confessions of a Shopaholic
Lauren Bacall - By Myself and Then Some
Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Bill Boyarsky - Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics
Michael Chabon - Gentlemen of the Road; A Tale of Adventure
Robert Whitaker - The Mapmaker's Wife
Ryszard Kapuscinski - Shadow of the Sun
Vanora Bennett - Portrait of an Unknown Woman, a Novel
Tim Clissold and Horacio Pons - Mr. China
The Bible
Jon Stewart - "The Daily Show" (Comedy Central) (TV) -- often interviews authors
Thomas Mullen - Last Town on Earth (audiobook)
James Bradley - Flyboys; A True Story of Courage (audiobook)
J. K. Rowlings - Harry Potter series (audiobooks)
Candace Bushnell - Lipstick Jungle
Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants, A Novel
John Bayley - Elegy for Iris
Cokie Roberts - Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Phillippa Gregory - The Queen's Fool, A Novel
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake: A Novel
Amy Tan - Bone Setter's Daughter
Katharine Graham - Personal History
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
Albert Gore - An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming
and What We Can Do About It
Art Buchwald - Too Soon To Say Goodbye
William Brodrick - 6th Lamentation, a Novel
Alexander McCall Smith - Dream Angus: the Celtic God of Dreams
Stephen Greenblatt - Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine (classic reissued) and sequel, Farewell Summer
Will Thomas - To Kingdom Come, Some Danger Involved,
and The LimeHouse Text
Margaret Maron - Bootlegger's Daughter
Winston Churchill - History of the English Speaking People (4 volumes)
Michael Connelly - The Lincoln Lawyer
John Dunning - On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans, and Never Let Me Go
Marjorie Fasman - The Diary of Henry Fitzwilliam Darcy
Carrie Debris - Pride and Prescience (Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mysteries)
Ruth Reichl - Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, and
Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Rachel Reichl - Garlic & Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
James L. Swanson - Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
James Bradley - Fly Boys: A True Story of Courage
Julie Otsuka - When the Emperor Was Divine
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
Richard A. Clark - Scorpion's Gate
Anne Rivers Siddons - Fault Lines
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