Salt Lake City, Utah – With Thanksgiving behind us, it's time to turn our attention to the holiday gift giving list. We suspect you may have a few bibliophiles to think about, so we've invited Salt Lake's local book sellers to give us their suggestions. They're bringing children's books, novels, non-fiction, Western titles and miscellanea ... a little something for everyone.
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem, Doubleday, $27.95
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred A. Knopf, $35.00
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon, The Penguin Press, $27.95
Poetry
Leaving by Wendell Berry, Counterpoint, $22.95
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen, Chiasmus Press, $14.95
Grand Canyon and Other Selected Poems by Amil Quayle, Black Star Press, $15.00
Western and Regional Titles
Ghosts of Glen Canyon: History beneath Lake Powell by C. Gregory Crampton, Cricket Productions, $29.95
The Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869 and 1871-1872 by William Culp Darrah, Ralph V. Chamberlin, and Charles Kelly (Editors), The University of Utah Press, $19.95
The Exploration of the Colorado River and the High Plateaus of Utah by the Second Powell Expedition of 1871-1872 by Herbert C. Gregory, William Culp Darrah, and Charles Kelly (Editors), The University of Utah Press, $24.95
Miscellaneous
Revolutions for Fun and Profit by Ryan Shattuck, Bullshattuck Publishing, $16.99
Think of the Self Speaking by Harry Smith, Elbow / Cityful Press, $50.00
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of A Thief, A Detective and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Bartlett, Riverhead Books, $24.95 Return to Top
2666 by Roberto Bolano, paperback, 2009, Picador, $18.00
Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz, hardcover, 2009, $40.00
Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan, hardcover, 2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27.00
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds edited by Billy Collins, illustrated by David Allen Sibley, hardcover, 2009, Columbia University Press, $22.95
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, hardcover, 2009, Little Brown and Company, $25.99
Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, hardcover, 2009, Scribner, $25.00
Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name by Toby Lester, hardcover, Free Press, $30.00
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls, hardcover, 2009, Scribner, $26.00
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, hardcover, 2009, Scribner, $26.99
Invisible by Paul Auster, hardcover, 2009, Henry Holt, $25.00
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel, hardcover, 2009, FSG, $25.00
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, paperback, 2009, Bloomsbury USA, $22.95
Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese translated by Kenneth Rexroth, paperback, $12.95
Stitches by David Small, hardcover, 2009, W. W. Norton, $24.95 Return to Top
