Experts Detail Best Book Picks of 2006

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Published November 27, 2006 at 7:40 AM PST

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Were entering the season of gift buying and a little extra free time, at least later in the month. So its a good time to talk about good books. San Diego-based author Debra Ginsberg and critic Tif

Tom Fudge : If literacy in America is on the wane, you wouldn’t know it from the number of books published every year. Because there are an awful lot.

The big sellers this holiday season may be ghost-written celebrity memoirs or self-help tomes. But there is a fair amount of good stuff out there as well.

Guest

Debra Ginsberg , San Diego-based author of two critically acclaimed memoirs Waiting and Raising Blaze . She has just published her first novel called Blind Submission .
Tiffany Lee-Youngren, freelance book critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Books discussed on the show:

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Fiction

Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
Literacy and Longing in L.A., by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
A Spot of Bother, by Mark Haddon
Severance, by Robert Olen Butler
Twilight of the Superheroes, by Deborah Eisenberg
Carte Blanche, by Carlo Lucarelli
Small Acts of Sex and Electricity, by Lise Haines
Kafka’s Soup, by Mark Crick

Non-Fiction

The Great Deluge, by Douglas Brinkley
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

Experts Detail Best Book Picks of 2006

Were entering the season of gift buying and a little extra free time, at least later in the month. So its a good time to talk about good books. San Diego-based author Debra Ginsberg and critic Tif

Were entering the season of gift buying and a little extra free time, at least later in the month. So its a good time to talk about good books. San Diego-based author Debra Ginsberg and critic Tif