Salt Lake City, Utah – Tuesday on RadioWest we bring you our annual holiday book show. Here's how it works: we gather up our experts from local bookstores in Utah and ask them to make a list of the best books of the year so you can find just the right gift. They'll bring dozens of books with them into the studio - novels, mysteries, children's books, some meaty history and biography. There's sure to be a title that matches someone on your list.
WebExtra Our panel of local booksellers agreed to stay with us after the show to not only talk about their favorite books ... but also to show us their favorite books:
The Man Who Never Died The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by William M. Adler, Bloomsbury, $30.00
The Mormon Rebellion: America's First Civil War, 1857-1858 by David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, University of Oklahoma Press, $35.00
Fire in the Pasture: 21st-Century Mormon Poets by Tyler Chadwick (editor), Peculiar Pages and B10 Mediaworx, $27.99
A Selection of Early Mormon Hymnbooks 1832-1872 Hymnbooks and Broadsides from the First 40 Years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Shane J. Chism, $45.00
Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife by Philip K. Fradkin, University of California Press, $24.95
Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism by Terryl L Givens and Matthew J Grow, Oxford University Press, $34.95
Decades of Daring Midget Racing in the Rocky Mountains by Bill Hill, Bill Hill Productions, $75.00
Pie in the Sky: How Joe Hill's Lawyers Lost His Case, Got Him Shot, and Were Disbarred by Kenneth Lougee, iUniverse, Inc., $14.95
In Search of Dominguez & Escalante: Photographing the 1776 Spanish Expedition through the Southwest by Greg MacGregor & Siegfired Halus, Museum of New Mexico Press, $50.00
A History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary by John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito, Utah State University Press, $37.95
Last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws: Moab's Bill Tibbetts by Tom McCourt, Canyonlands Natural History Association, $14.99
Bones in the Well: The Haun's Mill Massacre, 1838 by Beth Shumway Moore, Arthur H. Clark Company, $29.95
The Savage View: Charles Savage, Pioneer Mormon Photographer by Bradley W. Richards, M.D., Carl Mautz Publishing, $25.00
3D Atlas of Zion National Park by Steven L Richardson and Benjamin M. Richardson,, 2i3D Imaging, $29.95
Literature
El Sicario The Autobiography of Mexican Assassin by Charles Bowden & Molly Molloy, Nation Books, $15.99
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27.00
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.00
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30.50
Just Kids by Patti Smith, Ecco Press, $16.00
Woolgathering by Patti Smith, A New Directions book, $18.95
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Penguin Classics, $20.00
New Poetry
it doesn't get any better than this by Shana Agid, Brooklyn Artists Alliance, $7.00
Names by Jane LeCroy, Brooklyn Artists Alliance, $7.00
Like a Cure by Jane LeCroy (editor), Brooklyn Artists Alliance, $7.00
Scream at the Librarian by Joel J. Rane, Brooklyn Artists Alliance, $7.00
Art & Music
Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson by Kevin Avery, Fantagraphics Books, $30.00
The Alphabet in Woodcut by Royden Card, Self-published, $20.00
R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection by R. Crumb, W.W. Norton, $27.95
Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook by Utah Phillips, Dream Garden Press, $30.00
F*** You: Finally a book about me by Frank Anthony Smith, Global Interprint, Inc, $38.00
Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, hardcover, Little Brown & Co., $25.99
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie, hardcover, Random House, $35.00
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller, hardcover, WW Norton, $25.95
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond by John Powell, paperback, Little Brown and Co. $19.99
Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846 - 1847 by Winston Groom, hardcover, Knopf, $27.95
Lenningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-44 by Anna Reid, hardcover, Walker & Co., $30.00
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: The Tipsy Baker's Guide to the Best Homemade Foods by Jennifer Reese, paperback, Free Press, $24.00
Moby Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish, paperback, Tin House, $39.95
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff, paperback, Soft Skull Press, $14.95
R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection by R. Crumb, hardcover, WW Norton, $27.95
Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, hardcover, Alfred A Knopf, $23.95
Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt, hardcover, WW Norton, $26.95
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh, hardcover, Random House, $40.00
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941 - 1942 by Ian W. Toll, hardcover, W.W. Norton, $35.00
Rome: A Cultural, Visual and Personal History by Robert Hughes, hardcover, Knopf, $35.00