As my friends and family know I am an avid reader. For the past few years I've been keeping track of all the books I read each year - Goodreads has made this super easy too. Since I've had this blog I've been posting my top 10 books of the year - these are my top picks of what I've read in the past year. This year I read 78 books, which is hard for me to believe! So here are my top 10 - 5 each in Fiction and Non-Fiction and in alphabetical order by the author's name.
Fiction
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
After You by Julie Buxbaum
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 by David Petersen
The Promised World by Lisa Tucker
Non-Fiction
Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colon
Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien
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Hi Jessica,
How nice to make your list. Thanks for including my book, Columbine.
(And I apologize in advance if my name attracts any spammers. There are a few following me.)
Cool.
My wife commented about your list. A couple of yours matched hers
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Jessica, thanks so much for supporting my book Columbine on your blog. Tuesday is the eleventh anniversary of the tragedy and I hope you might mention that the book was recently released in an expanded paperback edition featuring:
— A 12-page afterword: "Forgiveness." Vignettes on three victims in very different places eleven years later, and the central role "forgiveness" played in their recovery. Includes startling new revelations about the killers' parents.
— Actual journal pages from Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold.
— Book Club Discussion Questions.
— Diagram of Columbine High School and environs.
Friday I'm attending the LA Times Book Awards, where Columbine is a finalist--up against Tracy Kidder and Dave Eggers--and then on to NYC for the Edgars (nominated in the True Crime category). Last month it won Barnes & Noble's Discover Award. The paperback is now on the NY Times bestseller list.
I'm excited about the way students have embraced the book. They tell me they are taken in by the vivid way it captures teen-age lives and the adolescent experience. So this year, I'm devoting most of my touring to high schools and colleges. I posted some photos (http://www.davecullen.com/tv-tour/tour-photos-schools.htm) and will be adding video footage. I am also creating Instructor Guides (http://www.davecullen.com/columbine/lesson-plans.htm) for teachers and profs to use the book in classes, and have posted the first guide for English/Writing--more are coming for psychology, journalism, etc.
Some links and background info follows. Thanks again for helping get the word out to a wider audience.
Dave Cullen
Links:
- Book Trailer (3-minute intro video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_BUR8u8a0Q
- Book Summary: http://www.davecullen.com/columbine.htm
- Awards & Reviews: http://www.davecullen.com/columbine/reviews.htm
- Bio: http://www.davecullen.com/bio.htm
Columbine spent eight weeks on the NY Times bestseller list in hardcover, and is currently on the paperback list. It appeared on two dozen 2009 Best lists, including the NY Times, Publishers Weekly, Salon, EW, Amazon and iTunes. It is a finalist for the Edgar Award, LA Times Book Award, and Audie Award, and has won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction of 2009. It was declared Top Education Book of 2009 by the American School Board Journal. Cullen has appeared on Today, ABC World News, Rachel Maddow, BBC-America and most of the major NPR shows.
Columbine relays the before, during and after stories of the massacre. It offers haunting portraits of two very different killers, and the remarkable stories of eight victims grappling with the aftermath for the next decade. Columbine has been cited as the definitive work on the tragedy by Newsweek, the Daily Beast, GQ, the New York Post and the Columbia Journalism Review.
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Dave Cullen www.davecullen.com
COLUMBINE -- expanded paperback in stores now
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