The December Book Sense Picks

The following are the December Book Sense Picks:

  • Seasoned in the South: Recipes From Crook's Corner and From Home by Bill Smith, preface by Lee Smith (Algonquin, $19.95, 1565124790).
  • Goodnight Nobody: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, $26, 0743470117).
  • A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies: A Novel by Ellen Cooney (Pantheon, $23.95, 0375423400).
  • Christmas Jars: A Novel by Jason F. Wright (Shadow Mountain, $7.95 paper, 1590384814).
  • The Jungle Law: A Novel by Victoria Vinton (MacAdam/Cage, $25, 1596921498).
  • Beasts of No Nation: A Novel by Uzodinma Iweala (HarperCollins, $16.95, 006079867X).
  • A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq by Paul William Roberts (Raincoast Books, $16.95 paper, 1551928191).
  • A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li (Random House, $21.95, 1400063124).
  • Music Lust: Recommended Listening for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nic Harcourt (Sasquatch, $16.95 paper, 1570614377).
  • Third Girl from the Left: A Novel by Martha Southgate (Houghton Mifflin, $24, 0618470239).
  • The Mayor of Lexington Avenue: A Novel by James Sheehan (Yorkville Press, $14.95 paper, 097674421X).
  • Burning Fence: A Western Memoir of Fatherhood by Craig Lesley (St. Martin's, $24.95, 0312318464).
  • Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll by James Greer (Grove/Black Cat, $16 paper, 0802170137).
  • Trail of Feathers: Searching For Philip True by Robert Rivard (PublicAffairs, $27.50, 158648222X).
  • The Rosary by Garry Wills (Viking, $24.95, 0670034495).
  • Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter, with Eddie Muller (Algonquin, $24.95, 1565124669).
  • New and Selected Poems: Volume Two by Mary Oliver (Beacon, $24.95, 0807068861).
  • A Century of November: A Novel by W.D. Wetherell (University of Michigan Press, $14 paper, 0472031228).
  • The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin (Perennial, $13.95 paper, 0060520760).
  • The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe by Paula Fox (Holt, $18, 0805078061).

[Many thanks to the ABA and Book Sense!]
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