Holiday Book Recommendations

Jessa Crispin, Bookslut.com

1. Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
2. Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna
3. The Arrival by Shaun Tan
4. I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
5. Apollo's Fire by Michael Sims
6. Electricity by Ray Robinson
7. Signed, Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy
8. Ambition & Survival by Christian Wiman
9. Wise Children by Angela Carter
10. The Pines by Alice Notley

Al Gini, Loyola University

1. The Italian Lover by Robert Hellenga
2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
5. When the World was Young by Tony Romano
6. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
7. Triangle by Katherine Weber
8. The Overlook by Michael Connelly
9. Lincoln by Gore Vidal
10. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Kimberla Lawson Roby, Author

1. Nappily Married by Trisha R. Thomas
2. Christmas 101: Celebrate the Holiday Season from Christmas to New Year's by Rick Rodgers
3. Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews
4. Like Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard
5. Eleanor vs. Ike by Robin Gerber
6. The Pastor's Wife by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
7. Gotta Keep on Tryin' by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant
8. The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank
9. Get Yours!: How to Have Everything You Ever Dreamed of and More by Amy Dubois Barnett
10. Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny by Suze Orman