2009 Holiday Gift Book Ideas from Marquand Books & iocolor
It’s been a busy year, but we still managed to squeeze some reading time in, and we are all looking forward to reading a few more in the coming year. Here are a few hand-picked gift recommendations from the Marquand Books and iocolor staff:
Art and Photography:
Dan Graham: Rock/Music Writings, Dan Graham (Primary Information)
Mitch Epstein: American Power, Mitch Epstein (Steidl Photography International)
The Ferris Gallery, Kristine McKenna (Steidl & Partners)
On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art), Hollis Frampton and Bruce Jenkins (The MIT Press)
Hidden Beauty: Microworlds Revealed, France Bourely and Laurel Hirsch (Harry N. Abrams)
Fiction:
Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam Adult)
Look At The Birdie, Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte Press)
War Dances, Sherman Alexie (Grive Press)
Fine Just the Way it Is: Wyoming Stories 3, Annie Proulx (Scribner)
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi: A Novel, Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)
Birds of America: Stories, Lorrie Moore (Picador)
The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Jim Harrison (Grove Press)
Non-Fiction:
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art, Don Thompson (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Library at Night, Alberto Manguel (Yale University Press)
How Fiction Works, James Wood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Richard Dawkins (Free Press)
Measure of the Heart: A Father’s Alzheimer’s, A Daughter’s Return, Mary Ellen Geist
World Affairs:
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice, Malalai Joya (Scribner)
Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid (Viking Adult)
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, Pietra Rivoli (Wiley)
Children/Young Adults:
Andy Warhol’s Colors, Susan Goldman Rubin (Chronicle Books)
Bill and Pete, Tomie de Paola (Putnam Juvenile)
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Chris van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)
Scaredy Squirrel, Melanie Watt (Kids Can Press)
From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg (Aladdin Paperbacks)
After Tupac & D Foster, Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam Young Adult)
Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt
Culinary:
Sunday Suppers at Lucques: Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table, Suzanne Goin and Teri Gelber (Knopf)
One Pot Spanish: More Than 100 Easy, Authentic Recipes, Penelope Casas (Sellers Publishing)
So Easy: Luscious, Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week, Ellie Krieger (Wiley)
Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater, Matthew Amster-Burton (Houghton Mifflin Co)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan (Penguin)
Arts & Craft:
Adventures with Pinhole and Home-made Cameras, John Evans (RotoVision)
The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, Joanne Mattera (Watson-Guptill)
The Oil Painter’s Pocket Palette Palette, Rosalind Cuthbert (North Light Books)
The Candlemaker’s Companion: A Complete Guide to Rolling, Pouring, Dipping, and Decorating Your Own Candles, Betty Oppenheimer (Storey Publishing)
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