Book Your Stocking with Christie Grimes

Book Your Stocking: December 14

Welcome back today's Book Your Stocking, a new holiday series this December, in which readers share their Reading Wish-lists or Give-Lists. 

Please welcome today's reader, Christie Grimes.

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To Give and To Read

Nonfiction
To Give:

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America's Food by Matthew Gavin Frank
• Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves by James Nestor
• Writing Poetry To Save Your Life: How To Find The Courage To Tell Your Stories by Maria Gillan

To Read:

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• Life Reimagined The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

 

Mystery/Thriller
To Give:

• books (like Relic) from the Agent Pendergast Series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• The Salt Line by Holly Godard Jones

 

Fiction
To Give:

• Oryx and Crake trilogy by Margaret Atwood
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• When the English Fall by David Williams
• Shotgun Lovesongs by Nicholas Butler 
• Lexicon by Max Barry

To Read:

• Artemis by Andy Weir 
• Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
• Hollow by Owen Egerton

 

Short Story Collections
To Give:

• Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell
• Volt by Alan Heathcock
• Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• The Miniature Wife and Other Stories by Manuel Gonzales
• The Subway Stops at Bryant Park by N. West Moss

To Read:

• A Lesson in Manners by Misty Urban
• The Whole World at Once by Erin Pringle

Poetry
To Give:

• The House of Blue Light by David Kirby
• All That Lies Between Us by Maria Gillan

YA to read: Warcross by Marie Lu

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About today's reader:

Christie Grimes,
used with permission

Christie Grimes writes fiction and poetry. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been a noted finalist in contests held by Gulf Coast, Glimmer Train, and the Cincinnati Review. Her poems have been published in journals, as well as in two anthologies. Her narrative poetry collection, Finding Fruit Among Thorns, was published in 2016 by Jane’s Boy Press. Find out more at www.christiegrimes.com

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