Faith's motto on The Book Show is: Life is short, but it can be ever so wide.
Join Faith and her book buddies for a call-in show recommending terrific books to read in all categories. If you're in a book club, please tell us what you've read and enjoyed.
And, hey, kids, we'd love to hear from you about books you love.
Mystery, classics, science, history, politics, humor, cookbooks, memoirs, biographies, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, instruction, graphic novels, health, happiness, wisdom—you'll hear it all on our book show.
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Roxanne’s Picks:
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande
- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, Jeff Hobbs
- All the Light We Cannont See, Anthony Doerr
- The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags, Daphne Merkin
Faith’s Picks:
- The Rise & Fall of Great Powers, Tom Rachman
- Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal, Jennifer Cognard-Black, Melissa Goldthwaite, Marion Nestle
- 1,339 quite interesting facts to make your jaw drop, John Lloyd
Rose’s Picks:
- On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
- The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, Debby Applegate
Lee's picks:
- The Remarkable Courtship of General Tom Thumb, Nicholas Rinaldi
- Sudden Mischief, Robert B. Parker
- The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi-Adler Olsen
- Spies of the Balkans, Alan Furst
- The Means of Escape, Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
GUESTS:
- Roxanne Coady is the president and CEO of RJ Julia Bookseller.
- Lee Jacobus is the author, most recently, of A World of Ideas.
- Rose Quiello is a professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University.
MUSIC:
- “Gne Gne,” Montefiori Cocktail
- “What’d I Say,” Ray Charles
- “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody),” Talking Heads
- “Rewrite,” Paul Simon
Lori Mack and Jonathan McNicol contributed to this show.
