Five Books To Give Yourself This Year. . .

This caught my eye, enjoy!

"You've shopped for the family, put up the tree, baked the kugel, prepped the brisket and mailed off your packages. Now give yourself a present: time alone with a good book."


View the list here and check out the opinionated reader's comments as well for some more ideas:-)

10 Best Books of 2008

The editors of the New York Times Book Review have selected 10 titles from the list of 100 Notable Books of 2008.

To view the entire list with a synopsis of each book, go to the Book Review page.

Fiction Titles include:
DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: Thirteen Stories By Steven Millhauser

A MERCY By Toni Morrison

NETHERLAND By Joseph O’Neill

2666 By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH By Jhumpa Lahiri

Nonfiction Titles:

THE DARK SIDE
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
By Jane Mayer

THE FOREVER WAR By Dexter Filkins

NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF By Julian Barnes

THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust

THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS
The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul By Patrick French

Consider one of these for your vacation reading.