Nancy Pearl’s Newest Picks

Nancy Pearl, author of the Book Lust series, has offered some new recommendations on her “Under the Radar” segment for National Public Radio (“Librarian Nancy Pearl's Picks for the Omnivorous Reader, Nov. 27, 2012”). When asked how she makes her selections, Pearl said, “I just pick some of the titles that I've most enjoyed since the last time I was on, without concern for whether they're fiction or nonfiction, genre or not, or aimed or classified as being for children or teens.”

America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield

Heft by Liz Moore

Among Others by Jo Walton

The Double Game by Dan Fesperman

Code Named Verity by Elizabeth Wein