Thursday, July 26, 2018

You asked for it! All the books discussed on Wisconsin Public Radio's Morning Show with Carrie Kaufman


Here's every book mentioned on last week's Wisconsin Public Radio's Morning Show with Carrie Kaufman. You can listen (or relisten to the show here).

Daniel picks
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
Asyemmetry, by Lisa Halliday
My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Homesick for Another World, by Ottessa Moshfegh
Bob, by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead
Half Magic, by Edward Eager
Illegal, by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, with illustrations by Giovanni Rigano
Annihilation and other novels in the Southern Reach series, by Jeff VanderMeer
Girl Waits with Gun, by Amy Stewart
The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality, by Anna Lisa-Cox
There, There, by Tommy Orange
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney

Call-in picks
Flight of the Great Wolf, by Mel Elliss (also out of print)
Educated, by Tara Westover
A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Sabbath’s Theater, by Philip Roth
Nancy Drew
A Coyote in the House, by Elmore Leonard
Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
Sceptical Essays and The History of Western Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
My Favorite Thing is Monsters, by Emil Ferris
Blankets, by Craig Thompson
Good-bye, Chunky Rice, by Craig Thompson
Every Last Word, by Tamara Ireland Stone
Fan Girl, by Rainbow Rowell
and other novels, by Rick RiordanThe Lightning Thief
Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
An Ember in the Ashes, by Sabaa Tahir
The Singularity Is Near, by Ray Kurzweil (not a novel)
The List, by Amy B. Siskind
Deathbird Stories and other works by Harlan Ellison
Dr. No and other books by Ian Fleming
The Deep Blue Good-by and other Travis McGee mysteries from John D. MacDonald
Staggerford and other novels by John Hassler
Danger, Man Working, and other books from Michael Perry
America's War for the Greater Middle Eat and other works of history, by Andrew J. Bacevich
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
The Imperial Cruise, by James Bradley
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
The Eyre Affair, and other Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde
The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
Stranger in a Stranger Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig
The Relic and other books in the Pendergast series, from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Sunday Sundaes and other books for kids in the Sprinkle Sundays series by Coco Simon
Almanac of the Dead, by Leslie Marmon Silko
Hunger, by Roxane Gay
Bad Blood, by John Carreyeau

Carrie’s pick

Winston the Book Wolf, by Marni McGee (alas, it’s out of print--somebody needs to bring this back!)

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