With tens of thousands of books being published every year, it's nearly impossible to decide what to read. And it's even harder when you're hunting for that literary gift for a friend or relation with totally different interests. Las Vegas Clark County Library District Chief Executive Jeanne Goodrich joins us to talk about the top books and what people in the Las Vegas Valley are reading.
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Jeanne Goodrich's Recommended Reading
Fiction and Non-Fiction
- Jonathan Bate, Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
- Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
- Jill Ciment, Heroic Measures
- Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
- Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
- Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin
- Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made
- Nick Hornby, Juliet Naked
- Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
- Barbara Kingsolver, Lacuna
- Jeff Johnson, Tattoo Machine
- Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls
- Eric W. Sanderson, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
- Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Young Adult and Children