I sat down with WAMU guest host Sam Litzinger this afternoon for a chat about books. We were joined by Barbara Hoffert of the Library Journal and Megan Graves of Hooray For Books in Alexandria VA. If you missed the Kojo Nnamdi Show today, here’s my abbreviated list of recommendations for the season (list with blurbs here). You can listen to the show in Real Audio or Windows Media. Stop in soon, we have lots more suggestions.

Fiction
Sway by Zachary Lazar
Indignation by Philip Roth
World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler
Peace by Richard Bausch
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, translated by Richard Pevear
Roseanna, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke and The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjowall and Per Waloo

Nonfiction
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
Like a Rolling Stone: The Strange Life of a Tribute Band by Steven Kurutz
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@*#! by Art Spiegelman
Washington Burning by Les Standiford
God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis

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