Read All Day

by Nina Sankovitch

Books Make The Best Gift Holiday Buying Guide: BOOKS for everyone on your list Great NEW Christmas Books: For the hipsters:  You Better Not Cry by Augusten Burroughs For the more traditional folks:  Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb For the anglophiles:  A Rumpole Christmas by John Mortimer For mystery lovers:  Holiday Grind by Cleo Coyle Gifts for every category of person.  Am I missing one?  Let me know! Husband:     Spooner by Pete Dexter                     Scout's Honor by Peter Applebome                     One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash                     Crusader's Cross by James Lee Burke Wife:     Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann                 Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro                 Little Bee by Chris Cleave                 In the Woods by Tana French                           Teenager:     American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang                      A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines                      Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan                            The Love of the Last Tycoon  by F. Scott Fitzgerald                           Middle-Schooler:  Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem                              Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling                              Scat by Carl Hiaasen                              Masterpiece by Elise Broach Mother:   The Calling by Mary Gray Hughes                 Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar                  By Chance by Martin Corrick                  Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan Father:    The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley                 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder                 Indignation by Philip Roth                 The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike Female Friend:  The History of Love by Nicole Krauss                           How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall                            Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson                            The Open Door by Elizabeth Maguire Male Friend:  Payback by Margaret Atwood                        Man in the Dark by Paul Auster                         The Sun Field by Heywood Braun                         The Nick Adam Stories by Ernest Hemingway Down-to-Earther:  Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt                               The Hidden Life of Deer by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas                                The Peregrine by J.A. Baker                               Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Mystery Lover:  The Long Fall by Walter Mosley                           The Sting of Justice by Cora Harrison                            Revelation by C.J. Sanson                            In the Woods by Tana French                            Nobody Move by Denis Johnson                          Tennis Player:   A Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher                                   The Inner-Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey Runner:    What I Talk About When I Talk About Running                         by Haruki Murakami Optimist:  Will War Ever End? by Paul K. Chappell                  On Kindness by by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor Moons Over Memoirs:  Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill                                       The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn                                        Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman History Buff:  A Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher                        The King and the Cowboy by David Fromkin Noir Addict (likes a bit of edge):  Rome Noir                                                     Delhi Noir                                                                             Armchair Traveler:  The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis                                  Algren at Sea by Nelson Algren                                   Akashic Books: Noir Collection: Pick your city! Favors Nonfiction:  In the Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski                                The Devil's Tickets by Gary M. Pomerantz                                        Sweet on Short Stories:    The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters                                         For Grace Received by Valeria Parrella                                          Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester                                          The Calling by Mary Gray Hughes                                           Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro                                            Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan                                                   Craves New Authors:    Hold Love Strong by Matthew Goodman                                       Ruins by Achy Obejas                                       Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep                                       The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal                                            Goes for Graphic Novels:  Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli                                        Stitches by David Small                                           Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto                                          Uses Books as Aphrodisiac: Waiting in Vain by Colin Channer                                 A Great Day for a Ballgame by Fielding Dawson Loves Energy, Wit, Warmth:    The English Major by Jim Harrison                                                  Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep                                                  Deaf Sentence by David Lodge Reads for Inspiration:   Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones                                       The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa                                       The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery                                       By Chance by Martin Corrick Wants to Laugh and Cry:  The House Beautiful by Allison Burnett                                            Spooner by Pete Dexter                                                       Just Wants to Laugh:    Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton                                       The Provincial Lady in London by E.M. Delafield                                       The Duppy by Anthony C. Winkler                                                                    Likes Spooky Atmosphere: The Ghost in the Mirror by Susan Hill                           The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton                         Have Comments? Write to me at sankovitch@readallday.org. Site and content wholly written, created, and owned by Nina Sankovitch and cannot be used without the express consent of Nina Sankovitch. Some books reviewed on www.readallday.org were review copies supplied by the publishers.