BOOKS
Books recommended on Your Call's book show
December 20, 2006
Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Rockin' Down the Highway: The Cars and People That Made Rock RollPaul Grushkin
Mike Nessby Paul Grushkin and Mike Ness
World War Z by Max Brooks
Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook Revised Edition by Editors at America's Test Kitchen
Absurdistanby Gary Shteyngart
Go Longby Jerry Rice
$40 million Slavesby William Rhoden
Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
The Urban Fiction books by Iceberg Slim
Motown in Love: Lyrics from the Golden Eraby Herb Jordan
What I Know for Sure by Tavis Smiley
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me by Rain Pryor
Well Paid Slaveby Kurt Flood
Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball-and America by Steve Jacobson
Harlem of the West - The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era by Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts
Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas by Carl Safina
Body and Soul by Frank Conroy
Birdsongs by Lee Bolesky The Court of the Lion: A Novel of the T'Ang Dynastyby Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altier
The God Delusionby Richard Dawkins
Civilization One: The World Is Not as You Thought It Was by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler
A Dirty Job: A Novel by Christopher Moore
The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
November 16, 2006
Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone
Goat: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali by Benedikt Taschen, Howard L. Bingham
SoMa by Kemble Scott
Life, Death & Bialys: A Father/Son Baking Story by Dylan Schaffer
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice by Greil Marcus
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
A Year of Betrayal by Eunice Brock
Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World by Michael Chorost
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
My Lost and Found Life by Melodie Bowsher
August 7, 2006
You Can't Win by Jack Black
Going on Being by Mark Epstein
Giant by Edna Ferber
People Who Knock at the Door by Patricia Highsmith
Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
Look For Me by Edeet Raval
Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson
Voice In, Voice Out by William Crossman
Sleep Toward Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Addicted to War by Joel Andreas
King of California by Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky
The Searchers by Alan Le May
on Beauty by Zadie Smith
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
June 14, 2006
Oscar Villalon's Picks
Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz
The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman
The Warlord's Son & Prisoner of Guantanamo by Dan Fesperman
Sandip Roy's suggestions
English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Listeners' Recommendations
Covering by Kenji Yoshino
Going on Being by Mark Epstein
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Tails of Devotion by Emily Scott Pottruck
The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvat Shangvi
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Jesus Land by Julia Scheer
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
The Unknown Soldier by Vaino Linna
A Time of Gifts & Between Woods and Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Kindred by Octavia Butler
No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod
Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell
Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
April 20, 2006
Oscar Villalon's Picks
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
March by Geraldine Brooks
Assasin's Gate by George Packer
Terrorist by John Updike
Everyman by Philip Roth
The March by E.L. Doctorow
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried Historyby Mark Danner
Listeners' Recommendations
If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics by Marilyn Waring
For Those I Loved by Martin Gray
31 Days by Barry Worth
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West
Hedge Fund Mistress by Lee Roystone
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin, Richard Falk
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
April 4, 2005
David Kipen's Picks
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Wrong Side of the Wall: The Story of Blackie Schwamb, the Greatest Ballplayer in Prison History by Eric Stone
Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California edited by Lauren Coodley
The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair
The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman
Three Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger
Red Jungle by Kent Harrington
A Case of Need by Michael Crichton
Listeners' Recommendations
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Absolute Friends by John LeCarre
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Red Death by Walter Moseley
Top Copy by Eric Ambler
The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
Rogue Mail by Geoffrey Householder
Bel Canto by Anne Patchett
Autobiography of a Face and Truth and Beauty by Lucy Grealy
Madame Secretary by Madeleine Albright
Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni
November 29, 2004
"Nick Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby
"What's the Matter with Kansas?" by Thomas Frank
"All About Love: New Visions" by bell hooks
"Iron Council" by China Mieville
"Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind" by Donald Johanson
"The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq" by Christian Parenti
"The People's Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy" by Lee Drutman, Charlie Cray, Ralph Nader
"Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left" by John Ross
"The Closing of the Western Mind : The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason" by Charles Freeman
"The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell
"You're an Animal, Viskovitz" by Alessandro Boffa
"Four Paws Five Directions: A Guide to Chinese Medicine for Cats and Dogs" by Cheryl Schwartz
"The Fortress of Solitude : A Novel" by Jonathan Lethem
"The Bear Comes Home" by Rafi Zabor
"The Forbidden Book" by Craig Lampe
"The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
"Second Nature" by Michael Pollan
"One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy" by Thomas Frank
"The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods" by Julia Hill
"The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp)" by P. B. Kerr
"The Great Gracie Chase: Stop That Dog!" by Cynthia Rylant
"My California: Journeys By Great Writers" by Donna Wares
"City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles" by Mike Davis
"Land of the Lost Mammoths: A Science Adventure" by Mike Davis
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Audible Books
August 2, 2004
David Kipen's picks
My California: Journeys by Great Writers edited by Donna Wares
Absolute Friends by John le Carre
Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Chrichton
Farai's picks
Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco
Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? by Micah Sifry and Nancy Watzman
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Listener recommendations
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
Driving Forces: The Grand Prix Racing World Caught in the Maelstrom of the Third Reich by Peter Stevenson
Swollen by Melissa Lion
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill by Mark Pittner
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Great Influenza by John Barry
Links by Nuruddin Farah
When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories by Bernestine Singley
Sleeping With Schubert by Bonnie Marson
Marrying Mozart by Stephanie Cowell
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
The Murder Room by P.D. James
May 31, 2004
Pat's Picks of the Month:
Survival of the Coolest: An Addiction Memoir by William Pryor
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
When Did You Stop Loving Me? by Veronica Chambers
Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett Davis
Symptomatic by Danzy Senna
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor edited by Tara Herivel & Paul Wright
April 19, 2004
Pat's Pick of the Month:
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
Against All Enemiess by Richard Clarke
Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes 1963-1964 by Michael Beschloss
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Anan Toer
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series) by Alexander McCall Smith
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Speaking with the Angel by Nick Hornby
Booty Nomad by Scott Mebus
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Rope Trick by Lloyd Alexander
Silver on the Tree (Dark is Rising Sequence) by Susan Cooper
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Weetzie Bat by Francesa Lia Block
February 2, 2004
Pat's Pick of the Month:
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Listeners' recommendations:
The Way of the Dreamcatcher: Spirit Lessons with Robert Lax: Poet, Peacemaker, Sage by Steve T. Georgiou
The Witches' Kitchen by Cecilia Holland
The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years by Haynes Johnson
Family Circle : The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak & Norton Mezvinsky
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker by Arlene Croce
Another America/Otra América by Barbara Kingsolver (Preface), Rebeca Cartes
Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
Jerusalem Poker by Edward Whittemore
Jericho Mosaic by Edward Whittemore
Nile Shadows by Edward Whittemore
Quin's Shanghai circus by Edward Whittemore
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
The First World War by John Keegan
