Avid readers often find themselves foisting their favorite titles on unsuspecting loved ones. Well, send your book suggestions our way! On the next Vermont Edition, it’s our Fall Book Show. The long, dark autumn evenings were made for curling up with a captivating story, and we are here to help you fill out your reading wish lists. We’ve invited independent Vermont booksellers to share their suggestions of great books that should be on our reading lists, and we want to hear from YOU too.
Post your reading recommendations to Facebook and listen on Nov. 12 live at noon (rebroadcast at 7 p.m.).
Carin Pratt's picks
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Euphoria by Lily King
What If by Randal Munroe
Jenny Lyon's picks
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamont
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin (forthcoming)
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
Vintage Pies by Anne-Haynie Collins*
The Vermont Difference, A collection of essays*
Before After by Matthias Arégui and Anne-Margot Rammstein
David Jenemann's picks
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
The Grandma Dowdel Series by Richard Peck
Vermont Writers' picks
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Greenglass House by Kate Milford
Dublin Detective Novels by Gene Kerrigan
War Stories: New Military Science Fiction
The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
Listener picks
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos
On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee
How Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman
Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong
Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler
Will Poole's Island by Tim Weed*
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The new Mitford Novel by Jan Karon
The Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King
The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin
The Night Malcom X Spoke at the Oxford Union by Stephen Tuck
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown and Daniel Brown
The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Major Pettigrew's Next Stand by Helen Simonson
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Audio book of The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Orfeo by Richard Powers
The All-Girl's Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
Revenants by Daniel Mills
Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Series by Archer Mayor
The Maisie Dobbs Series by Jacqueline Winspear
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Bossypants by Tina Fey
10% Happiness: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works-- A True Story by Dan Harris
11 22 63 by Stephen King
The Shape of the Sky by Shelagh Shapiro*
Books related to Jane Austen
Texts from Jane Eyre and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg
The Austen Project Series by Joanna Trollop
Longbourn by Jo Baker
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
A Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell
The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St. Aubyn
* Denotes a Vermont author