Kate's Picks

 

Kate's Picks

I read fiction, narrative nonfiction, investigative journalism, classic fiction, short stories, science, history, and mysteries: about 35 books a year.  I will read a memoir if it is written by Abraham Verghese or if it is highly recommended by Sally. I have little patience for contrived drivel. Even my fiction has to have a  grounding in reality, either in the characters, plot, or sense of place.

I love my work at Broadway Books.  It is absolutely wonderful to learn about the current “best reads” from Roberta, Sally, my co-workers, and our customers.  Of course I love sharing my new discoveries and my old favorites.  

Right now I am reading Davis Country: H.L. Davis’s Northwest, an anthology of the work of H.L. Davis, the only Oregonian to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.  Davis’ writing is simply beautiful and it makes me ache to know that I only have a few more pages to read.  My current favorite novel is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell.  This book has it all, history, intrigue, love, and gorgeous language.  Highest on the list for nonfiction is Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.   Again, a “has it all” experience only in a well-researched nonfiction gem.

 

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America By Gilbert King Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780061792267
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Harper Perennial - February 19th, 2013

Alexander Hamilton By Ron Chernow Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9780143034759
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Penguin Books - March 29th, 2005

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781571313560
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Milkweed Editions - August 11th, 2015

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage International) By Richard Flanagan Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780804171472
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Vintage - April 14th, 2015

Sometimes a Great Notion By Ken Kesey, Charles Bowden (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Ken Kesey, Charles Bowden (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780143039860
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Penguin Classics - August 29th, 2006

Independent People (Vintage International) By Halldor Laxness Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780679767923
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Vintage - January 14th, 1997

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) By Anne Fadiman Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374533403
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 24th, 2012

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster By Jon Krakauer Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780385494786
Availability: On Our Shelves Now as of 24 Hours Ago. Call first to confirm.
Published: Vintage - October 19th, 1999

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West By Stephen E. Ambrose Cover Image
$20.99
ISBN: 9780684826974
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Simon & Schuster - June 2nd, 1997

Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul By Melody Beattie Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062511218
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: HarperOne - May 18th, 2010

The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I By Robert A. Caro Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780679729457
Availability: Backordered. There will likely be a delay in getting this book
Published: Vintage - February 17th, 1990

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II By Robert A. Caro Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9780679733713
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Vintage - March 6th, 1991

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III By Robert A. Caro Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780394720951
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Vintage - April 25th, 2003

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV By Robert A. Caro Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780375713255
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Vintage - May 7th, 2013

Davis Country: H.L. Davis's Northwest By Brian Booth, Glen A. Love Cover Image
$22.95
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9780870715778
Published: Oregon State University Press - October 1st, 2009

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel By David Mitchell Cover Image
$19.00
This book has been declared out of stock indefinitely, so we are unlikely to be able to get it.
ISBN: 9780812976366
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - March 8th, 2011

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781400052189
Availability: We can usually get this book in 3 to 7 days, except during a pandemic. We are doing our best
Published: Crown - March 8th, 2011