Friday, December 16, 2016

Nancy Pearl and Boswell's Daniel Goldin on Wisconsin Public Radio's Kathleen Dunn Show.

This week I was able to be on the Kathleen Dunn Show with Nancy Pearl! You can listen to the show here on Wisconsin Public Radio's website. Here are the books that were mentioned on the show.

The Pearl Pick: Moonglow, by Michael Chabon: "This is the book that Michael Chabon was born to write!" 

The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon


Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson


Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

Evicted, by Matthew Desmond

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer

News of the World, by Paulette Jiles

In Other Words, by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Color of Lightning, by Paulette Jiles

Hero of the Empire, by Candice Millard

The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman (it's not out of print!)

Territory, by Emma Bull

The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

Twelve Kings in Sharakai, by Bradley Beaulieu

The Treasure of Nemakagon, by James A Brakken (available from us by special order, advance purchase required)

The Christmas Crocodile, by Bonny Becker, with illustrations by David Small

The Dive from Clausen's Pier, by Ann Packer

Route 66, by Michael Wallis (I read a number of Michael Wallis books years ago. It's a nice mix of text and pictures. I don't think it's in print but you can get a second-hand copy in the marketplace)

Plotted: A Literary Atlas, by Andrew Degraff and Daniel Harmon

Speaking American, by Josh Katz

Everyone Brave is Forgiven, by Chris Cleave

Listen to more pearls from Nancy Pearl on the KUOW podcast.

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