Holiday Gift Suggestions
from
Harvard Book Store
Carole Horne headed our buying department from 1978 until July 2007, when she became our General Manager. A booklover since her childhood in Texas, after moving to Boston she went on to get her M.A. in English Literature. She has been active in the bookselling community, having served as President of the New England Booksellers Association, and on the Board of Directors of the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and the Independent Booksellers Consortium. A frequent speaker at regional and national conventions, Carole has also been on the faculty of ABA Booksellers School since 1988, teaching in the U.S. and in Central Europe. (Ask her about beer and bookselling in Budapest and Warsaw.)
Carole suggests:
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
HarperCollins, paperback, $16.95
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams ed. by Margaret A. Hogan
Harvard University Press, hardcover, $35.00
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
W.W. Norton, hardcover, $27.95
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes
Knopf, hardcover, $28.95
New editions in the Library of America:
Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick, hardcover, $35.00
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 by Philip Roth, hardcover $35.00
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and '40s by Edmund Wilson, hardcover, $35.00
Food Writing: An Anthology edited by Molly O’Neill, hardcover, $40.00
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Ballantine, hardcover, $21.95
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
Simon & Schuster, hardcover, $25.00
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Holt, hardcover, $24.00
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
by David Attenborough
Yale University Press, hardcover, $37.50
Bird Songs from Around the World by Les Beletsky
Chronicle Books, hardcover, $45.00
Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg
Little, Brown, paperback, $17.99
How Many?: Spectacular Paper Sculptures by Ron Van Der Meer
Random House, hardcover pop-up, $24.99
The Art of William Steig by William Steig
Yale University Press/The Jewish Museum, hardcover, $40.00
My Life in France by Julia Child
Anchor Books, paperback, $14.95
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Penguin, paperback, $16.00
Megan Sullivan is the Head Buyer at Harvard Book Store. She studied Classics and Philosophy at Skidmore College, and began a Master’s program at Tufts before becoming a full-time buyer at the bookstore. She’s been working at the store for over eight years now, reading books for twenty-nine years (she started very early in life), and running a literary blog for over three years. On Bookdwarf.com, Megan writes about books she reads as well as book news.
Megan suggests:
Creole by Babette de Rozieres
Phaidon, hardcover, $39.95
Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges by Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Broadway, hardcover $40.00
The Country Cooking of France by Anne Willan
Chronicle, hardcover, $50.00
The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen
by Michael Ruhlman
Scribner, hardcover, $24.00
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
Soft Skull Press, hardcover, $25.00
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
FSG, hardcover, $27.00
Signed, Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy
Little Brown, hardcover, $23.99
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
FSG, paperback, $15.00
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
New York Review of Books, paperback, $14.95
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anchor, paperback, $14.95
Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
Riverhead, hardcover, $24.95
Falling Through the Earth by Danielle Trussoni
Picador, paperback, $14.00
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
St. Martin’s, hardcover, $24.95
Maps of the Imagination by Peter Turchi
Trinity University Press, hardcover, $22.95
Churchill Pitts began his tenure at Harvard Book Store in 2003, and he became a buyer in 2006. He studied English Literature and Art at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He collects vintage paperbacks for the cover art, books about cats, and atlases of all types. When he is not reading science fiction, he enjoys printmaking, model making, and cooking.
Churchill suggests:
100 British Documentaries by Patrick Russell
BFI Screen Guides/University of California Press, paperback, $22.50
100 European Horror Films by Steven Schenieder
BFI Screen Guides/University of California Press, paperback, $22.50
100 Shakespeare Films by Daniel Rosenthal
BFI Screen Guides/University of California Press, paperback, $22.50
100 Videogames by James Newman
BFI Screen Guides/University of California Press, paperback, $22.50
The Big Lebowski by J. M. Tyree
BFI Screen Guides/University of California Press, paperback, $14.95
60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Boston by Helen Weatherall
Menasha Ridge Press, paperback, $16.95
Cool Green Stuff: A Guide to Finding Great Recycled, Sustainable,Renewable Objects You Will Love by Dave Evans
Random House, paperback, $14.95
Good Spirits: Recipes, Revelations, Refreshments, and Romance,Shaken and Served with a Twist by A. J. Rathbun
Harvard Common/NBN, hardcover, $29.95
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records by Ashley Kahn
W. W. Norton, paperback, $18.95
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Yale University Press, hardcover, $65.00
Knife Skills Illustrated by Peter Hertzmann
W. W. Norton, hardcover, $29.95
The Rough Guide to Shopping with a Conscience by Duncan Clark
Rough Guides, paperback, $16.99
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Artof Diagramming Sentences
by Kitty Florey
Harcourt, paperback, $14.95
The Sports Book by DK Publishing
DK Publishing, hardcover, $35.00
Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden and Mike Ashworth
Penguin, paperback, $25.00
Very Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide by Sander Bais
Harvard University Press, hardcover, $20.95
Kari Patch has been a voracious reader since the age of four, when she discovered the whereabouts of the wild things. Born in central Nebraska, Kari spent much of her childhood in Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies or vacationing in the Enchanted Forest, Narnia, Tortall, and Neverland. She took a brief respite from her travels to study literature (with a smattering of creative writing) at the University of Houston. Kari has been at Harvard Book Store for four and a half years as a bookseller, supervisor, and buyer. She spends most of her time reading new young-adult titles and, occasionally, a grown-up book or two.
