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What to Read: Fall 2003

(List compiled by Nancy Pearl, Weekday listeners and Weekday staff) Nancy Pearl is author of Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason and KUOW Book Critic.

1. "A Gay and Melancholy Sound" - Merle Miller (used bookstores only)
2. "Death Comes for the Archbishop" - by Willa Cather
3. "Perdido"
4. "Red Sky at Morning: A Novel" - Richard Bradford
5. "The Sea of Grass" - Conrad Richter
6. "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" - Gregory Maguire
7. "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood" - Oliver Sacks
8. "The Power of the Dog: A Novel" - Thomas Savage
9. "The Girls from the Five Great Valleys: A Novel" - Elizabeth Savage (Montana Book)
10. "One Sweet Quarrel: A Novel" - Deirdre McNamer (Montana Book)
11. "The Last Good Kiss: A Novel" - James Crumley (Montana Book)
12. "The Edge of the Crazies" - Jamie Harrison (Montana Book)
13. "On the Black Hill" - Bruce Chatwin
14. "Bruce Chatwin" - Nicholas Shakespeare (biography)
15. "When Christ and His Saints Slept" - Sharon Kay Penman
16. "The Sunne in Splendour" - Sharon Kay Penman
17. "Red Planet" - Robert A. Heinlein
18. For Young Adults, particularly boys, books by Chris Crutcher
19. "Uniform Justice" and other mysteries about Venice by Donna Leon
20. "Any Four Women Could Rob a Bank in Italy" - Ann Cornellsen
21. "The Gastronomical Me" - MFK Fisher
22. "Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family" - Patricia Volk
23. "Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table" - Ruth Reichl
24. "River" - Rumer Godden
25. "The Art of Course Acting" - Michael Green
26. "My Family and Other Animals" - Gerald Malcolm Durrell
27. "The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving" - Leslie Thomas
28. "The Dog Who Wouldn't Be" - Farley Mowat