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Around Noon Year-Ender Call-in Show: Books

Book list from today's program

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

Harry Potter books by JK Rowling

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Palestein: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

The Isreal Lobby by John Mearsheimer

Witness in Palestine by Anna Baltzer

Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Confessions of a Carb Queen by Susan Blech

The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer and Jim Mason

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen by Michael Ruhlman and Anthony Bourdain

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace by Greg Mortenson

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Kline

Peter and the Star Catchers by Dave Barry (audio book read by Jim Dale)

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon by Dave Barry

Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (first book in trilogy)

The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer

The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass

The Pesthouse by Jim Crace

Lights in the Dream (Meditation with Egg People) by NS Dickinson

Beverly Cleary Books

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

Paint It Black by Janet Fitch

Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish by Joe Mackall

A Ticket to Ride by Paula McLain

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography book by David Michaelis

Dave DeOreo is coordinating producer for Ideastream Public Media’s arts and culture team.