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On today's Your Call, we’ll make a list of the best books of the past year, new and classics. What were your favorite books of this year? Do you have friends or family you’d love to give a book to if only you had a recommendation? We’ll also get recommendations from independent bookstore owners. Join us at 10am Pacific Time or post a comment here with your book ideas. What are you reading now? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan, and you.
Guests:
Rosie Levy Merlin, program outreach librarian at San Francisco Public Library
Sharon Levin, founder of Bay Area Children’s Literature List
Kevin Hunsanger, co-owner of Green Apple Books and Music in San Francisco
Resources:
For information about the Bay Area Children's Literature List, email Sharon Levin
Your Call Book List - Best of 2012!
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Behind the Beautiful Forever by Kathyrn Boo
Buddha in the Attic by Julie Osaka
Who Could That Be At This Hour? by Lemony Snickett
Martian Summer by Andrew Kessler
Ending the Culture of Violence by Penny Hess
Fall of Giants by Ken Follets
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Dreaming in French by Alice Kaplan
Black Fire by Robert Graysmith
Season of the Witch by David Talbot
Where’d You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet
How Should A Person Be? by Sheila Heti
10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said by Charles Wheelan
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Monstress by Lesley Tenorio
Peppermint Twist by John Johnson Jr., Joel Selvin, and Dick Cami
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Distractors by Malik Sompura (sp?)
In the Sunlight, In the Shadow by Mark Halprin
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Watch for me from the Mountain by Forrest Carter
Lucking Out by James Wilcox
Life After Murder by Nancy Mullane
We’re With Nobody by Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian
Subversives by Seth Rosenfeld
A Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Building Stories by Chris Ware
Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Sisters Brothers Patrick Dewitt
All Natural by Nathanael Johnson
Krampus: the Yule Lord by Brom
Children and Young Adult Books:
The Christmas Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood
Dreaming Up by Christy Hale
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by Barack Obama
The Littlest Angel by Charles Caswell
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook by Joanne Rocklin
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
First Girl Scout by Ginger Wadsworth
If I Lie by Corrine Jackson
Except If and Oh No, Little Dragon by Jim Averbeck
First Mothers by Beverly Gherman and Julie Downing
Dangerously Ever After by Dashka Slater, illustrated by Valeria Docampo
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen
Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Adam Rex and Hank Blowfeather
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Love, Amalia by Alma Flor Ada
In the Land of Milk and Honey by Joyce Carol Thomas
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara