Recommendations Wanted - Good Books for Christmas Gifts

vanity | 10/13/06 | randita

[randita]

Have you read any great books in the past year? Ones that inspired you, intrigued you, informed you, kept you on the edge of your seat? Ones that, if you hadn't read them already, you would have been delighted to receive as Christmas gifts?

If so, please share your choices with your fellow Freepers. Some of us still have shopping to do and one of the suggestions may just be the perfect ticket for one of those hard to buy for relatives or friends.

As far as I'm concerned, recommended books do not need to be recent releases -- just recently read and appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Merry Christmas to all!

[aspen64]

The Truth About muhammad by Robert Spencer

[Spok]

If you can find it, 'The Joy of Yiddish' by Leo Rosten.

[SunkenCiv]

Pingworthy?

[SunkenCiv]

This is a few years old, more than a few, but I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Fortune Is a River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History by Roger D. Masters

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