Hosting All Sides Weekend: Books on WOSU 89-7 NPR News is always a joy. My thanks to Kassie Rose and Robin Nesbitt who are the 'regular' anchors of this program. Their passion and love for books informs everything great about the show.
The following list reflects some of their choices, and some of mine, and some of our listeners. The revival of the opera Adriana Lecouvreur had me reading a book I've owned since 1972 for the first time, Jack Richtman's Adrienne Lecouvreur. The mildew smell was my fault, not Jack or Adrienne's
This was the year the Michelle Obama worked hard to bring decency back to the political discourse with Becoming. Thank you Mrs. Obama.
Rebecca Makkai's searing The Great Believers brought us back to the early days of the AIDS crisis. Those of us who remember got a shiver, but kept turning the pages. Makkai skillfully keeps us between the 1980s and today.
Two thousand eighteen was the year of The Great American Read. PBS provided TV specials and the opportunity to vote for favorite novels. Thousand participated, and the final vote went to To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm grateful that my beloved A Confederacy of Dunces lasted several rounds.
TGAR encouraged me to read Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolpho Anaya, often called the first Latino novel. First or not, it is a beautiful book.
I was delighted to read for the second time John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany. (At my age, I'm trying not to re-read. Clock's ticking)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in Silicon Valley by John Carreyou is a real life thriller. A page turner.
My favorite of all for 2018 was The Overstory by Richard Powers. A long and dense-in a great way-novel where trees are the protagonist. This will change your worldview for the better.
+Wallis in Love by Andrew Morton
The following list reflects some of their choices, and some of mine, and some of our listeners. The revival of the opera Adriana Lecouvreur had me reading a book I've owned since 1972 for the first time, Jack Richtman's Adrienne Lecouvreur. The mildew smell was my fault, not Jack or Adrienne's
This was the year the Michelle Obama worked hard to bring decency back to the political discourse with Becoming. Thank you Mrs. Obama.
Rebecca Makkai's searing The Great Believers brought us back to the early days of the AIDS crisis. Those of us who remember got a shiver, but kept turning the pages. Makkai skillfully keeps us between the 1980s and today.
Two thousand eighteen was the year of The Great American Read. PBS provided TV specials and the opportunity to vote for favorite novels. Thousand participated, and the final vote went to To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm grateful that my beloved A Confederacy of Dunces lasted several rounds.
TGAR encouraged me to read Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolpho Anaya, often called the first Latino novel. First or not, it is a beautiful book.
I was delighted to read for the second time John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany. (At my age, I'm trying not to re-read. Clock's ticking)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in Silicon Valley by John Carreyou is a real life thriller. A page turner.
My favorite of all for 2018 was The Overstory by Richard Powers. A long and dense-in a great way-novel where trees are the protagonist. This will change your worldview for the better.
* Favorite
** Great American Read (PBS)
+ interviewed author
Origin by
Dan Brown
+The Encore:
A Memoir in Three Acts by Charity Tilleman-Dick
The
Senator’s Children by Nicholas Montemarano (John Edwards)
*Leonardo da
Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Hacks by Donna
Brazile
*The Force
by Don Winslow (Denny Malone)
Promise me, Dad
Joe Biden
Maestros and
Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting by John Mauceri
*Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Africa)
Flash and
Fury by Michael Woolf
Balancing
Acts: Inside National Theatre by Nicholas Hytner
Conducting
Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro Leonard Slatkin
Sense of
Occasion by Harold Prince
Exit West
Moshin Hamid
The Cartel
Don Winslow
+The
Immortalists Chloe Benjamin
The House of
Impossible Beauties Joseph Cassara
*Manhattan
Beach by Jennifer Egan
Instrumental:
A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music James Rhodes
Heir
Apparent: Life of the Playboy Prince Edward VII Jane Ridley
Munich by Robert
Harris
Reading With
Patrick by Michelle Kuo
Endurance by
Scott Kelly
The Seven
Storey Mountain Thomas Merton
The Magdalen
Martyrs Ken Bruen
Priest Ken
Bruen
Jefferson’s
Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in young America by Catherine
Kerrison
Reservoir 13
Jon McGregor
*And After
the Fire (Bach-Mendelssohn) Lauren Belfer
*Grant Ron
Chernow
A Wrinkle in
Time by Madeliene L’Engle
The Perfect
Nanny by Leah Slimani
The Rooster
Bar John Grisham
All-American
Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez James Patterson
Purgatory by
Ken Bruen
Green Hell by
Ken Bruen
The Savior
Eugene Drucker
The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty
Defends Our Constitution Against Ring-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs. Ed Asner
My Father’s
Wake by Kevin Toolis
Red Hot
Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker by Lauren Rebeca Sklaroff
Blitzed:
Drugs in Nazi Germany Norman Ohler
*An American
Marriage Tyari Jones
Stray City by
Chelsey Johnson
A Higher
Loyalty James Comey
In the
Enemies House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Codebreaker who Caught
the Russian Spies by Howard Blum
Mrs. By Caitlyn
Macy
Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen
Something
Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein by Todd S. Purdum
Unmasked
Andrew Lloyd Webber
**The Stand by
Stephen King
**Little
Women Louisa May Alcott
Varina by Charles
Frazier (Mrs. Jefferson Davis)
**Frankenstein
Mary Shelly
Sweet and
Low by Nick White
*****The
Overstory Richard Powers
*Property:
stories between two novellas Lionel Shriver
(“The Chandelier”
“The Subletter” “Domestic Terrorism”)
Eunice: The
Kennedy Who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara
Sometimes I
Lie by Ann Feeney
The Woman in
the Window A.J. Finn
**Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolpho Anaya
Robin
(Williams) Dave Itzkof
**And then
There Were None Agatha Christie
Rogue Lawyer John Grisham
Mary Pickford: The Woman who created the Movies by Eileen
Whitfield
"The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great
Fights, and Other Appreciations," by John McCain
** The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
**Goodbye Columbus Phillip Roth
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
My Girls Todd Fisher
Gray Mountain John Grisham
*On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein by
Charlie Harmon
The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper
*The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai
The Outsider Steven King
Darkness Visible William Styron
Unhinged Omorosa
**Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Stranger Albert Camus
+Wallis in Love by Andrew Morton
Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow
Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser
Unnecessary Roughness: Trial of Aaron Hernandez Jose Baez
Beethoven’s Tenth by Richard Kluger
Providence by Caroline Kempner
The Cloister James Carroll
Betty Ford by Lisa McCubbin
The Big Game: Inside the NFL in Dangerous Times Mark
Leibovitch
The Girl on the Balcony Olivia Hussey
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Fear by Bob Woodward
*****A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
*Ticker: The quest to create an artificial heart by Mimi
Swarz
*Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
The First Family Michael and Daniel Palmer
Gone So Long Andre by Dubus III
*Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in Silicon Valley John Carryeou
Life in Pieces by Sally Field
Handel by Christopher Hogwood
*Hallelujah! The story of musical genius and the city that
brought a masterpiece to life Stephen Bardon
*Ohio Stephen Markley
November Road by Lou Berney
*Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret Craig Brown
*Becoming Michelle Obama
Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty
Elevation Stephen King
Dinner at Camelot: Joseph Esposito
Vanity Fair Thackeray
The President is Missing James Patterson and Bill Clinton
*The Essential Composers Anthony Tommasini
There Will be No Miracles Here Casey Gerald
*Ladder to the Sky John Boyne
The Reckoning John Grisham
Novotna My Life in Song Jarmila Novotna
Gun, with Occasional Music Jonathan Lethem
Adrienne Lecouvreur Jack Richtman
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