Recommended reading from Midmorning

Books that take you to different places and times

"Out of Africa," by Isak Dinesen

"Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton," by Sara Wheeler

"Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica," by Sara Wheeler

"Travels in a Thin Country," by Sara Wheeler

"In Patagonia," by Bruce Chatwin

"Angela's Ashes," by Frank McCourt

"Brian's Winter," by Gary Paulsen

"Riding the Iron Rooster," by Paul Theroux

"The Great Railway Bazaar," by Paul Theroux

"Dark Star Safari," by Paul Theroux

"Italian Education," by Tim Parks

"Passage to India," by E.M. Forster

"Dubliners," by James Joyce

"The Sheltering Sky," by Paul Bowles

"Tales of the Alambra," by Washington Irving

"Travels with Charlie," by John Steinbeck

"Log from the Sea of Cortez," by John Steinbeck

"The Anatomy of Biblomania," by Holbrook Jackson

"The Innocents Abroad," by Mark Twain

"The Comedians," by Graham Greene

"The Quiet American," by Graham Greene

"Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure," by Sarah Macdonald

"Eat, Pray, Love," by Elizabeth Gilbert

"On the Road," by Jack Kerouac

"The Farming of Bones," by Edwidge Danticat

"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe," by Fanne Flagg

"Far Tortuga," by Peter Matthiessen

"Eleni," by Nicholas Gage

"The Shadow of the Sun," by Ryszard Kapuscinski

"Travels with Herodotus," by Ryszard Kapuscinski

"McCarthy's Bar," by Pete McCarthy

"A Time of Gifts," by Patrick Leigh Fermor

"Between the Woods and the Water," by Patrick Leigh Fermor

"No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo," by Redmond O'Hanlon

"A Walk in the Woods," by Bill Bryson

"West with the Night," by Beryl Markham

"The Missing," by Tim Gautreaux

"As They Were," by M.F.K. Fisher

"Undaunted Courage," by Stephen Ambrose

"Hawaii," by James Michener

"Shogun," by James Clavell

"Last Letters from Hav," by Jan Morris

"The Sun Also Rises," by Ernest Hemingway

"A Moveable Feast," by Ernest Hemingway

"Life and Death in Shanghai," by Nien Cheng

"Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife," by Margaret Williamson

"Home to Harlem," by Claude McKay

"Passing," by Nella Larsen

"A Tale of Two Cities," by Charles Dickens

"Until I Find You," by John Irving

"You Shall Know Our Velocity," by Dave Eggers

"Wind, Sand and Stars," by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"In Arabian Nights," by Tahir Shah

"Extra Virgin," by Annie Hawes

"The Wild Trees," by Richard Preston

"Fingerprints of the Gods," by Graham Hancock

"Full Tilt," by Dervla Murphy

"Bitter Lemons," by Lawrence Durrell

"The Poisonwood Bible," by Barbara Kingsolver

Books that made a difference when you were young

"Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley

"The Good Earth," by Pearl S. Buck

"Johnny Tremain" by Esther Forbes

"Cry, The Beloved Country," by Alan Paton

"Separate Peace," by John Knowles

"So Far from the Bamboo Grove," by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

"A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story," by Elaine Brown

"Ethan Frome," by Edith Wharton

"Ball Four," by Jim Bouton

"The Outsiders," by S.E. Hinton

"Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking," by Steve Allen

"Awakening," by Kate Chopin

Authors:

Gordon Korman

M.T. Anderson

Pete Hautman

Memoirs recommended by Midmorning guests and listeners

"The Glass Castle" by Jeanette Walls

"Hurry Down Sunshine" by Michael Greenberg

"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt

"Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant" by Ulysses S. Grant

"Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela" by Nelson Mandela

"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

"George F. Kennan: Memoirs, 1950-1963" by George F. Kennan

"Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer

"The Late Homecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" by Kao Kalia Yang

"1 Dead in the Attic: After Katrina" by Chris Rose

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers

"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion

"The House on Sugar Beach" by Helene Cooper

"The Tender Land: A Family Love Story" by Kathleen Finnernan

"Fate is the Hunter" by Ernest K. Gann

"Personal History" by Kathleen Graham

"Dreams of My Father" by Barack Obama

"Wasted" and "Madness" by Marya Hornbacher

"High Infatuation: A Guide to Love and Gravity" by Steph Davis

"The Long Loneliness" by Dorothy Day

"Building a House with My Husband" by Rachel Simon

"My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey" by Jill Bolte Taylor

Books recommended to 'Recapture the Art of Reading- -- From Sept. 3, 2009

Peter Carey's new book -- coming next year

"The Dragon Lance Chronicles" (young adult)

"The Corrections"

"Four Hasidic Masters"

"Count of Monte Cristo"

"Wuthering Heights"

Stephen King's Dark Tower series

"Desert Queen: A Biography of Gertrude Bell"

"The Lost City of Z"

"The Sporting Life"

Flannery O'Connors's short stories

Louise Erdrich's novels

Joyce Carol Oates novels

"A Choice of Weapons"

"Lights on a Ground of Darkness"

Raymond Carver's stories -- newly released by the Library of America

"Dracula"

"Haroun and the Sea of Stories"

Neil Gaiman's novels