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9 Book Picks To Add To Your Holiday Shopping List
Here & Now's Robin Young gets a few picks for great reads to give this holiday season from Petra Mayer (@petramatic) of NPR Books.
Petra Mayer's Recommendations
Nonfiction
- "What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories," by Laura Shapiro
- "Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City," by Julia Wertz
- "Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World," by Rob Sheffield
- "The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris," by Tom Sancton
Fiction
- "The Book Of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage," by Philip Pullman
- "Jade City," by Fonda Lee
- "The Ninth Hour," by Alice McDermott
- "Five-Carat Soul," by James McBride
- "Magpie Murders," by Anthony Horowitz
This segment aired on December 19, 2017.