Whether you spend winter break curled up in a comfortable chair, lounging at the beach, or hanging around the ski chalet after a day on the moguls, make sure you have a good book on hand to entertain, empower, enlighten and enervate. Grab your kindle or head out to your local library or bookstore for a few good titles to get you through the short days and long nights of the winter season.
Bialik Bookblasters have recommendations which range from fantasy to mystery, from classics to the latest bestsellers. Graphic novels and the supernatural are popular, but so are books about great debates and controversies such as the Books That Shook the World series. Arthur Conan Doyle is right up there alongside John Grisham, and George Orwell’s 1984 ranks right next to Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother. Gallop alongside King Arthur and his knights, fly through the air with a magical dragon; take a ringside seat while the heroes and gods do battle in modern cities. Solve a mystery, conquer the universe, combat evil and wrongdoing. Take your imagination for a holiday ride!
Novels and Memoirs
1984 by George Orwell
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Client by John Grisham
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Feed by M.T. Anderson
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Richard Adams
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Sword in the Stone by T.H White
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Series
A Dream of Eagles by Jack Whyte (The Skystone )
Dune by Frank Herbert
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass )
Earth’s Children by Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)
Pendragon by D.J.MacHale
Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan(Lightning Thief)
Septimus Heap by Angie Sage
The Young James Bond
Books That Shook The World
Darwin’s Origin of Species by Janet Browne
Plato’s Republic by Simon Blackburn
Marx’s Das Kapital by Francis Wheen
Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man by Christopher Hitchens
Homer’s The Iliad and the Odyssey by Alberto Manguel
The Bible by Karen Armstrong
The Qur’an by Bruce Lawrence
