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Share Your Holiday Reading Recommendations
'Tis the season to get cozy with a book. What are you reading? What would you recommend for the festive season?
As the wintery winds roll through Alameda rustling the orange, red and yellow leaves, the chilly air brings with it a need for comfort and immersion in warmth from the inside out.
Getting tucked up with a book is one of winter's most sacred delights. Whether it's a beloved paperback with frayed pages, or a brand new e-book, downloaded at the click of a button — the options are ample for literary escape.
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What is everyone else reading?
Here are the most recent best sellers at :
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- Steve Jobs (Hardcover) By Walter Isaacson
- Inheritance (Hardcover) By Christopher Paolini
- The Hunger Games (Paperback) By Suzanne Collins
- Heroes of Olympus, The, Book Two: The Son of Neptune (Hardcover) By Rick Riordan
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Hardcover) By Michael Lewis
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover) By Daniel Kahneman
- Blue Nights (Hardcover) By Joan Didion
- 1Q84 (Hardcover) By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
- Guinness World Records 2012 (Hardcover) By Guinness World Records
- Momofuku Milk Bar (Hardcover) By Christina Tosi, David Chang
Nationally, here are the best sellers this week, according to the New York Times:
- 11/22/63, by Stephen King
- THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham
- THE NEXT ALWAYS, by Nora Roberts
- ZERO DAY, by David Baldacci
- THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks
COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION
- STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson
- KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
- HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
- BACK TO WORK, by Bill Clinton
- SEAL TARGET GERONIMO, by Chuck Pfarrer
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