Holiday Picks

Architecture and Religion:

• St. Peter's Church: Faith in Action for 250 Years

An Aesthetic Leaning:

• Van Gogh: The Life
• The Louvre: All the Paintings 
• de Kooning: A Retrospective
• History of the World in 100 Objects

Young Readers:

• The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, Eric Carle
• The Lego Ideas Book
• Wonderstruck
• The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
• Bumble-Ardy
• Big Nate on a Roll
• The Wizard of Oz
• Grandpa Green
• You Will Be My Friend
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• The Man in the Moon
• The Splendid Spotted Snake
• How do you Feed A Hungary Giant
• I Want My Hat Back
• King Jack and the Dragon
• The High Street
• Pie
• The Flint Heart
• Breadcrumbs
• Stars
• The Candy Makers

Tween and Teen( Ages 12 and up)

• Legend
• Cleopatra’s Moon
• The Future of Us

Well written, good reads

• The Art of Fielding
• 1Q84
• The Marriage Plot
• The Sense of An Ending
• Rules of Civility
• The Night Circus
• The Prague Cemetary
• Salvage the Bones
• Buddha in the Attic
• The Cat’s Table

Illuminating Lives

• Steve Jobs
• Charles Dickens: A Life
• Catherine the Great
• Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

The Engaged Intellect

• Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
• A Little History of Philosophy
• The Redstone Inkblot Test: The Ultimate Game of Personality
• Physics of the Future
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture
• Swerve

Significant Moments, Events and Pursuits:

• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
• The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
• Civilization: The West and the Rest
• Jerusalem: The Biography

And, The Night Before Christmas: Or, a Visit from St. Nicholas