Reading Book Club discussion

All the Light We Cannot See, Fourth of July Creek, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush and more. The best books of 2014.

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Guests

Janet Potter, staff writer at The Millions. Co-host of “The Book Report” on YouTube. (@sojanetpotter)

Laurie Hertzel, senior editor for books, Minneapolis Star Tribune. Author of News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist (@stribbooks)

Mark Laframboise, book buyer for the Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.

From The Reading List

NPR Books: NPR’s Book Concierge – “Maybe you’re looking to crack open a few books this holiday season. Maybe you’re looking to buy some as holiday gifts. Well, we have for you a guide of sorts to 2014’s great reads. We call it our Book Concierge. This is not a best-of list, but it’s suggestions from NPR staff and critics about what they’ve liked in fiction, nonfiction, biography, young adult literature and plenty of other genres.”

http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2014/#/_

Publisher’s Weekly: The Future of Reading: 10 Trends for 2014 and Beyond — “The Internet has been disrupting the businesses of publishing and bookselling for the past two decades. Despite it all, a few stubborn concepts have retained their shape: the integrity of narrative (stories have a beginning, middle, and end); the book as container of ideas, fixed in time and place; the necessary involvement of authors and editors, as well as publishers and distributors; and, most remarkably to some, the boundary between physical objects and the digital domains.”

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by...

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Our critics choose their 10 favorite books – “Maybe you’re shopping for the holidays, maybe you’re just cobbling together your own reading list for the coming winter. Either way, here are recommendations for you, one suggestion each from 10 of the Star Tribune’s most trusted book critics. The best books of the year? Maybe. Books that you should read? Definitely. And books that will make fabulous gifts? Absolutely.”

http://www.startribune.com/entertainm...

Janet Potter’s Best Books

1. Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush by Geoff Dyer
2. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
3. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
4. On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
5. Painted Cities by Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski
6. Red or Dead by David Peace
7. California by Edan Lepucki
8. Thrown by Kerry Howley
9. The Secret Place by Tana French
10. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Laurie Hertzel’s Best Books

1. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
2. The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
3. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder, annotated by Pamela Smith Hill
4. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
5. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
6. Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
7. Underground: New and Selected Poems by Jim Moore
8. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
9. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
10. When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C. Rosbottom

Mark Laframboise’s Best Books

1. Lila by Marilynne Robinson
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
3. American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen
4. Thrown by Kerry Howley
5. Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
6. The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
7. Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
8. Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre
9. Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart by William Alexander
10. Take This Man: A Memoir by Brando Skyhorse