Forum opens up the phone lines to hear from listeners about their favorite books of 2011. Call or write in and let us know about the books you think everyone should read and why.
Here is a list of books mentioned during the show:
- Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades — Robert Spencer
- Iron Heel — Jack London
- The Great Disruption — Paul Gildings
- The Killing of Crazy Horse — Thomas Powers
- The Wisdom of the Tortoise — Sanelle Sibanda
- Fair Foods — Oran B. Hesterman
- Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol
- Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life — Michael Krasny
- A spoonful of promises — T. Susan Chang
- Concise Oxford English Dictionary —
- The Road — Jack London
- Salt: A World History — Mark Kurlansky
- Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews — Geoff Dyer
- Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens — Christopher Hitchens
- The Art of Fielding: A Novel — Chad Harbach
- Daughters of the Revolution — Carolyn Cooke
- Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout — Lauren Redniss
- State of Wonder — Ann Patchett
- Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease — Bharat B. Aggarwal PhD
- Fabulous Small Jews — Joseph Epstein
- The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain — John E. Sarno M.D.
- The 30-Day Vegan Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Cleaner, Getting Leaner, and Living Compassionately — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
- The Storied Ice: Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica’s Peninsula Region — Joan N. Boothe
- The Lost Coin — Monica Cane and Erin K Brown
- The Talk Funny Girl — Roland Merullo
- Robopocalypse: A Novel — Daniel H. Wilson
- Living In The Rear View Mirror: From Substance Abuse to a Life of Substance — Kim Vasquez
- A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism — Daniel Byman
- The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life — Bill Bryson
- Cleopatra: A Life — Stacy Schiff
- Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi — Steve Inskeep
- The River of Smoke — Amitav Ghosh
- Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History — Trevor R. Getz
- A Prayer for Owen Meany — John Irving
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot
- Cutting for Stone — Abraham Verghese
- Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) — Patrick O’Brian
- Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur Charles Clarke
- Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, No. 5) — Mary Pope Osborne
- The Buddha at War: Peaceful Heart, Courageous Action in Troubled Times — Robert Sachs
- Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction — Elissa Schappell
- Over qualified — Joey Comeau
- Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves: Ditch Your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar — Amy Ahlers
- The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China — Hannah Pakula
- It’s a Battlefield — Graham Greene
- American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China — Matthew Polly
- East of Eden — John Steinbeck
- Green Hills of Africa — Ernest Hemingway
- Maisie Dobbs — Jacqueline Winspear
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise — Julia Stuart
- The Monkey Ranch Gang — Edward Ebby
- A House with No Roof — rebecca wilson
- The Best of It: New and Selected Poems — Kay Ryan
- Cloud Atlas: A Novel — David Mitchell
- What It Is — Lynda Barry
- Loving Frank: A Novel — Nancy Horan
- The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity — Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Eisenhower: The White House Years — Jim Newton
- Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK — Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann
- The Hunger Games — Susan Collins
- African Yamassee, An American Story — Dan Richman
- Ollie & Moon — Diane Kredensor
- Life — Keith Richards
- The Good Son — Michael Gruber
- Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow’s Spectacular Last Case — David E. Stannard
- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader — Anne Fadiman
- The Land of Painted Caves: A Novel (Earth’s Children Series) — Jean M. Auel