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Warm wishes for a season full of reading from your friends at Washington State University Libraries.
WSU Libraries faculty and staff favorite reads of 2012
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Al: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Alex: Reamde by Neal Stephenson
Allie: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Anna: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Barb: Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son by Anne Lamott
Bob: Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings and Stuart McArthur
Bonny: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Brian: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
Carol: An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
Cheryl: Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson
Dan: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Eileen: The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterson by G.K. Chesterton
Erica: I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
Gabriella: The Rest is Jungle and Other Stories by Mario Benedetti
Greg: Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy
Helen: Raven’s Shadow, book one: Blood Song by Anthony Ryan
Jay: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Kathi: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Kevin: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
Lani: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Linda C.: Redshirts by John Scalzi
Linda F.: Capital by John Lanchester
Lipi: The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams
Marilyn: Open City by Teju Cole
Nick: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Nono: The Caliph’s House: A Year In Casablanca by Tahir Shah
Rhonda: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Robert: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Sue: Floating gold: a natural (and unnatural) history of ambergris by Christopher Kemp
Susan: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Suzanne: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson
Talia: The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Trevor: The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story by Elliott West
Vicki: Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers
Wendy: How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants by David Rees
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