Book Sense Notable Picks: December

The Book Sense Notable Picks for December are:

Fiction

  • Eating Heaven by Jennie Shortridge (NAL, $12.95 paper, 0451216431).
  • The Guest by Hwang Sok-Yong, Kyung-Ja Chun and Maya West (Trans.) (Seven Stories, $27.95, 1583226931).
  • Popco by Scarlett Thomas (Harvest, $14 paper, 015603137X).
  • Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153012).
  • Sleeping With Schubert by Bonnie Marson (Random House, $21.95, 1400060419).

Nonfiction

  • All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross (Hyperion, $14.95 paper, 0786888202).
  • The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz (Little, Brown, $29.95, 0316803529).
  • Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316156116).
  • Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West by Clemens P. Work (University of New Mexico Press, $34.95, 0826337740).
  • Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World by Nicholas A. Basbanes (HarperCollins, $29.95, 0060593237).
  • The Flower Shop: Charm, Grace, Beauty & Tenderness in a Commercial Context by Leonard Koren (Stone Bridge, $19.95 paper, 1933330007).
  • Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War by John T. Halliday (Scribner, $27.50, 0743274881).
  • Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies, & Bull Riders: A Year Inside the Professional Bull Riders Tour by Josh Peter (Rodale, $24.95, 1594861196).
  • Laughing With Lucy: My Life With America's Leading Lady of Comedy by Madelyn Pugh Davis, with Bob Carroll, Jr. (Emmis, $19.95, 1578602475).
  • Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora by Andrew Lam, foreword by Richard Rodriguez (Heyday, $14.95 paper, 1597140201).
  • Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country by Joe Queenan (Picador, $14 paper, 031242521X).

Cooking

  • The Best Recipes in the World by Mark Bittman (Broadway, $29.95, 0767906721).
  • Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers: Fresh Ideas for the Weeknight Table by Moosewood Collective (Clarkson Potter, $32.50, 0609609122).

Mystery and Suspense

  • Jamaica Me Dead by Bob Morris (St. Martin's Minotaur, $22.95, 0312328915).
  • Six for Gold: A John the Eunuch Mystery by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer (Poisoned Pen, $24.95, 1590581458).
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