Recommended Reading from Midmorning

St. Paul, Minn. — Here is a list books recommended by Midmorning guests and listeners.

"The Waitress Was New" - Dominique Fabre

"The Crucible" - Arthur Miller

"Beginner's Greek" - James Collins

"Middlesex" - Jeffrey Eugenides

"1776" and "Mornings on Horseback" - David McCullough

"Atonement" - Ian McEwan

"The Yiddish Policeman's Union" - Michael Chabon

"So Big" - Edna Ferber

"A Spot of Bother" - Mark Haddon

"The Road" and "All the Pretty Horses" - Cormac McCarthy

"The Reluctant Dragon" - Kenneth Grahame and Inga Moore

"The Scarlet Letter" - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"What is the What" - Dave Eggers

"Little Brother" - Cory Doctorow

"Pattern Recognition" - William Gibson

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" - Junot Diaz

The novels of Edith Wharton

"Love Medicine" - Louise Erdrich

"FieldWork" - Mischa Berlinski

"House on Beartown Road" by Elizabeth Cohen

"Speak Memory" by Vladimir Nabokov

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

"Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

"This Boy's Life" by Tobias Wolff

"Duke of Deception" by Geoffrey Wolff

"Dancing with Rose" by Lauren Kessler

"My Life in France" by Julia Child

"A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold

"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers

"Madness" by Marya Hornbacher

"Wasted" by Marya Hornbacher

"Waking" by Matthew Sanford

"A Year by the Sea" by Joan Anderson

"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

"West With the Night" by Beryl Markham

"The Florist's Daughter" by Patricia Hampl

"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt

"Petal Pusher" by Laurie Lindeen

"Ava's Man" by Rick Bragg

"Jaguar: One Man's Struggle To Establish The World's First Jaguar Preserve" by Alan Rabinowitz

"Small Wonder" byBarbara Kingsolver

"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver

"The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant"

"Leap of Faith" by Queen Noor

"Oh the Glory of it All" by Sean Wilsey

"A Hungry Heart: A Memoir" by Gordon Parks

"Surprised by Joy" by C.S. Lewis

"Iron & Silk" and "Lost in Place" by Mark Salzman

"Family Man" by Calvin Trillin

"A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean

"Any Human Heart" by William Boyd

"Love And War in the Apennines" by Eric Newby

"The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life"

"Providence" by Daniel Quinn

"Apprentice: My Life In the Kitchen" by Jacques Pepin

"Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam" by Robert Mason

"Before Night Falls" by Reinaldo Arenas

"Aquariums of Pyongyang" by Kang Chol-Hwan

"Dry" by Augusten Burroughs

"Reading Lolita in Tehran," Azar Nafisi

"So Long See You Tomorrow" by William Maxwell

"News from the Border: A Mother's Memoir of Her Autistic Son" by Jane Taylor McDonnell

"The Spiral Staircase" by Karen Armstrong

"A Three Dog Life" by Abigail Thomas

"Growing Up" by Russell Baker

"Lucky Man" by Michael J. Fox

"Wanderer" by Sterling Hayden

"A Mermaid's Tale" by Amanda Adam

"Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence" by Paul Feig

"A Hole in the World" by Richard Rhodes

"Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

"Living My Life" by Emma Goldman

"Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller

"The Confessions of St. Augustine"