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The Year in Books

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Books discussed on today's program:

A Is for Africa by Ifeoma Onyefulu
Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager
Central Park in the Dark by Marie Winn
Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield
Home by Marilynne Robinson
I Wonder as I Wander by Langston Hughes
King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Wil Haygood
Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Life and Fate by Vasilii Grossman
Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Merle's Door: Lessons From a Freethinking Dog by Ted Kerasote
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer
Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes
Punk Rock and Trailer Parks by Derf
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Territory by Emma Bull
World Without End by Ken Follett

Darkangel Trilogy: The Darkangel, A Gathering of Gargoyles and The Pearl of the Soul of the World by Meredith Ann Pierce

Twilight Series: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyers

The Shack by William P. Young

Harry Potter Series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

Vampire Chronicles: Interview With the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

Saint Germain Series: Better in the Dark, Blood Roses, Borne in Blood, Come Twilight, Communion Blood, Dangerous Climate, Dark of the Sun, Feast in Exile, Mansions of the Dark, Midnight Harvest, Night Blooming, Path of the Eclipse, Roman Dusk, States of Grace and Writ in Blood by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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