But, where to start? At “RadioWest, we turn to our local experts, Ken Sanders, Betsy Burton and Catherine Weller, who help narrow down the many choices. So, tune in for a conversation about fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, cookbooks, kids books, local topics … we’ve got everyone covered. Join us this Wednesday at 9 a.m. for a conversation about one of our favorite topics — books!
GUESTS
Ken Sanders | owner of Ken Sanders Rare Books
Betsy Burton | Co-founder of The King’s English Bookshop
Catherine Weller | book buyer for Weller Book Works
Airdate: Thursday, Dec. 14, at 9 a.m. and Saturday, Dec. 16, at 11 a.m.
Holiday Reading List:
Poetry & Literature
“Excuse Me as I Kiss the Sky,” by Rudy Francisco. Button Poetry, 2023. Paperback, $18
“Sun House,” by David James Duncan. Little, Brown and Company, 2023. Hardcover, $35
“A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories,” by Terry Pratchett. Harper, 2023. Hardcover, $26.99
“Toy Gun,” by Matt Coonan. Button Poetry, 2023. Paperback, $18
“So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men,” by Claire Keegan. Grove Press, 2023. Hardcover, $20
“Bathhouse and Other Tanka,” by Ishii Tatsuhiko and Hiroaki Sato (translator). New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023. Paperback, $17.95
“The MANIAC,” by Benjamin Labatut. Penguin Press, 2023. Hardcover, $28 “Roman Stories," by JhumpaLahiri. Knopf Publishing Group, 2023. Hardcover, $27
“Always Something,” by Jim Dodge. Limberlost Press, 2023. Paperback, $20
“The Wolves of Eternity,” by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Martin Aitken (translator). Penguin Press, 2023. Hardcover, $35
“All of This Was Once Under Water : Poems by Natalie Padilla Young.” Quarter Press, 2023. Paperback, $15.99
“Kairos,” by Jenny Erpenbeck. New Directions, 2023. Hardcover, $25.95 “Prophet Song,” by Paul Lynch.Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023. Hardcover, $26 Illustrated
Graphic & Gift Books
“A Wild Promise: An Illustrated Celebration of the Endangered Species Act,” by Allen Crawford and Terry Tempest Williams (introduction). Tin House Books, 2023. Hardcover, $35
“Ranger of the Lost Art: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of our National Parks,” by Douglas Leen and Douglas Brinkley (foreword). Paragon Press, 2023. Hardcover, $100
“Watership Down: The Graphic Novel," by Richard Adams, James Sturm (adapted by) and Joe Sutphin (illustrator). Ten Speed Graphic, 2023. Paperback, $26.99
“My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel,” by Elena Ferrante, Chiara Lagani (adapted by), Mara Cerri (illustrator) and Ann Goldstein (translator). Europa Editions, 2023. Hardcover, $26
“Monica,” by Daniel Clowes. Fantagraphics Books, 2023. Hardcover, $30
“The Mysteries,” by Bill Watterson and John Kascht (illustrator). Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2023. Hardcover, $19.99
“Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones,” by Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren and Rebecca Seaver. Ten Speed Press, 2023. Hardcover, $50
“Ed Mitchell's Barbeque,” by Ed Mitchell, Ryan Mitchell and Zella Palmer. Ecco Press, 2023. Hardcover, $37.50
Regional Interest
“Dr. Martha Cannon of Utah: The Unexpected Victorian Life of America's First Female State Senator,” by Joan Jacobsen. History Press, 2023. Paperback, $24.99.
“Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator,” by George B. Handley. University of Illinois Press, 2023. Paperback, $14.95
“First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming,” by Steven R. Simms. University of Utah Press, 2023. Paperback, $34.95
“Rocky Mountain Reflections,” by Michael Shoemaker. Poets Choice, 2023. Paperback, $25
“The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism,” by Sara M. Patterson. Signature Books, 2023. Hardcover, $34.95
“A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church: Addendum,” by Peter Crawley. Brigham Young University, 2023. Paperback, $40
“Useful to the Church and Kingdom: The Journals of James H. Martineau, Pioneer and Patriarch, 1850–1918,” by Noel A. Carmack and Charles M. Hatch (Editors). Signature Books, 2023. Hardcover, $39.95
Children’s & Young Adult
“What You Need to Be Warm: A Poem of Welcome,” by Neil Gaiman, Yuliya Gwilym (illustrator), Nadine Kaadan(illustrator), Chris Riddell (illustrator), et al. Quill Tree Books, 2023. Hardcover, $18.99
“The Puppets of Spelhorst,” by Kate DiCamillo and Julie Morstad (illustrator). Candlewick Press, 2023. Hardcover, $17.99
“Once, a Bird,” by Rina Singh and Nathalie Dion (illustrator). Orca Book Publishers, 2023. Hardcover, $21.95
“The Lost Library,” by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass. Feiwel & Friends, 2023. Hardcover, $17.99
“Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!,” by Mo Willems. Union Square Kids, 2023. Hardcover, $18.99
“Dogtown,” by Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, and Wallace West (illustrator). Feiwel & Friends, 2023. Hardcover, $17.99
General Non-Fiction
“Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope,” by Sarah Bakewell. Penguin, 2023. Hardcover, $30
“Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir” by Werner Herzog. Penguin, 2023. Hardcover, $30
“The Best Minds: A Story of the Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions" by Jonathan Rosen. Penguin, 2023. Hardcover, $32
“Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World” by John Vaillant. Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Hardcover, $32.50
“Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet” by Ben Goldfarb. W. W. Norton, 2023. Hardcover, $30
“Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World” by Naomi Klein. FSG, 2023. Hardcover, $30
“Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell” by Sy Montgomery. Mariner Books, 2023. Hardcover, $28.99
“Sonic Life: A Memoir” by Thurston Moore. Doubleday Books, 2023. Hardcover, 2023.
Nonfiction
“My Name is Barbra” by Barbra Streisand, Penguin audiobook read by the author, $45
“True West” by Betsy Gaines Quammen, Torrey House hardcover, $28.95
“A Man of Two Faces” by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove hardcover, $28
“The Good Virus” by Tom Ireland, Norton hardcover, $30
“The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese, Grove hardcover, $30
Expensive but Glorious Nonfiction
“Among Friends: an Illustrated Oral History of Publishing and Bookselling in the 20th Century,” edited by Buz Teacher, Running Press hardcover, $200
“Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds,” an Illustrated Edition" by Merlin Sheldrake, Random House hardcover, $40
“Native American Art from the Thomas Weisel Collection” edited by Hillary C. Olcott, Christina Hellmich, and Deana Dart, Delmonico DAP hardcover, $85
Fiction
“Let Us Descend” by Jesmyn Ward, Scribner hardcover, $28
“The Vaster Wilds” by Lauren Groff, Riverhead hardcover, $28
“The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride, Riverhead hardcover, $28
“The End of Drum Time” by Hanna PylvAinen, Henry Holt hardcover $28.99
“The Vulnerables” by Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead hardcover, $28
Mystery/Thriller
“The Secret Hours” by Mick Herron, Soho hardcover, $27
“The Last Ranger” by Peter Heller, Knopf hardcover, $27
“Gaslight” by Femi Kayode, Mulholland hardcover, $29
“A Man with One of Those Faces” (and the Dublin Trilogy) by Caimh McDonnell Whitehaired Irishman paperback $12.99
Children’s Picture Books
“Wombat” by Philip Bunting, Charlesbridge hardcover, $17.99
“A Toni Morrison Treasury” by Toni Morrison & Slade Morrison illustrated by Joe Cepeda, Pascal Lemaitre, Giselle Potter, Sean Qualls, and Shadra Strickland, Simon & Schuster hardcover, $29,99
“Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn” by Shannon Hale illustrated by Leuyen Pham, Abrams hardcover $18.99
“Snowmen’s Twelve Nights of Christmas” by Caralyn Buehner, illustrated by Mark Buehner, Dial hardcover $18.99
Children and Young Adult Chapter Books
“Saints of the Household” by Ari Tison, Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover, $19.99
“Warrior Girl Unearthed” by Angeline Boulley, Henry Holt hardcover, $19.99
“The Brothers Hawthorne” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown hardcover, $19.99
“Ryan and Avery” by David Levithan, Knopf hardcover, $18.99
“Murtagh” by Christopher Paolini, Knopf hardcover, $29.99
Fiction:
“Crook Manifesto” by Colson Whitehead, hardcover, Doubleday Books, $29.00
“Fraud” by Zadie Smith, hardcover, Penguin Press, $29.00
“Gutton” by A.K. Blakemore, hardcover, Scribner, $28.00
“Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride, hardcover, Riverhead Books, $28.00
Iliad by Homer, new translation by Emily Wilson, hardcover, WW Norton & Co, $39.95
“Land of Milk and Honey” by C. Pam Zhang, hardcover, Riverhead Books, $28.00
“Let Us Descend” by Jasmyn Ward, hardcover, Scribner, $28.00
“Managua Trilogy” by Sergio Ramirez, paperback, McPherson & Co, $16.00 each
“North Woods” by Daniel Mason, hardcover, Random House, $28.00
“Vaster Wilds” by Lauren Groff, hardcover, Riverhead Books, $28.00
Non-Fiction:
“Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet” by Ben Goldfarb, hardcover, WW Norton, $30.00
“Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America” by Heather Cox Richardson, Viking, $30.00
“Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” by Naomi Klein, hardcover, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, $27
“Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World” by Mary Beard, hardcover, Liveright Publishing, $39.99
“Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution” by Cat Bohannon, hardcover, Knopf, $35.00
“Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways that Planted the Seeds to Empire” by John Keahey, hardcover, St. Martins Press, $30.00
“How to Say Babylon: A Memoir” by Safiya Sinclaire, hardcover, 37 Ink, $28.99
“Listen: On Music, Sound, and Us” by Michael Faber, hardcover, Hanover Square Press, $30.00
“Path to Paradise: The Francis Ford Coppola Story” by Sam Wasson, hardcover, Harper, $32.99
“Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman” Empire by Emma Southan, hardcover, Harry N. Abrams, $27.00
“This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America” by Navied Mahdavian, paperback, Princeton Architectural Press, $25.95
“This is What it Sounds Like: A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music” by Susan Rogers, paperback, WW Norton, $17.95
“True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America” by Betsy Gaines Quammen, paperback, Torrey House Press, $19.95 or hardcover $28.95
Cooking, Humor, Etc.:
“Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s” by B. Dylan Hollis, hardcover, DK Publishing, $32.00
“Dirty Guide to a Clean Home: Housekeeping Hacks You Can’t Live Without” by Melissa Dilkes Pateras, hardcover, Dial Press, $26.00
“Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods” by Sarah Lohman, hardcover, Norton, $28.95
“Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art” by Mark Small, hardcover, Chronicle Books, $19.95
“Parenting Advice to Ignore in Art and Life” by Nicole Tersigni, hardcover, Chronicle Books, $14.95
“Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair” by Mercury Stardust, hardcover, DK Publishing, $24.99
“Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook” by Sohla El-Waylly, hardcover, Knopf, $45.00
Kids:
“101 Ways to Read a Book” by Timothee de Fombelle et al., hardcover, Red Comet Press, $20.00 (7-10 years, everyone really)
“Beautiful Noise: The Music of John Cage” by Lisa Rogers (illus) and Il Sung Na, hardcover, Anne Schwartz Books, $18.99 (6- 10 years)
“City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm” (Bk. 1) & “City of Dragons: Rise of the Shadowfire” (Bk.2) by Jaimal Yogis, paperback, Graphix, $12.99 (8-12 years)
“Deephaven” by Ethan M. Aldridge, hardcover, Quill Tree Books, $18.99 (8-12 years)
“Dim Sum Palace” by X. Fang, hardcover, Tundra books (3-7 years)
“Every Dreaming Creature” by Brendan Wenzel, hardcover, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99 (4-8 years)
“Godly Heathens” by H. E. Edemon, hardcover, Wednesday Books, $20.00 (14-18 years)
“Gwen & Art Are Not in Love” by Lex Croucher, hardcover, Wednesday Books, $20.00 (14-18 years)
“How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?” by Mac Barnett (illus) and Jon Klassen, hardcover, Candlewick Press, $18.99 (4-8 years)
“Mr. S.” by Monica Arnaldo, hardcover, Katherine Tegen Books, $19.99 (4-8 years)
“Sam Francisco, King of the Disco: A Picture Book About Dancing Cats” by Talib Binny (illus) and Sarah Tagholm, hardcover, Annick Press, $18.99 (4-7 years)
“Stuff Kids Should Know: The Mind-Blowing Histories of (Almost) Everything” by Chuck Bryant et. al., hardcover, Henry Holt & Co., $19.99 (8-12 years)
“Three Tasks for a Dragon” by Eoin Colfer, hardcover, Candlewick Press, $19.99 (8-12)
“Welcome Home” by Amy June Bates, hardcover, Simon & Schuster, $18.99 (4-8 years)