Reading List: 1997

Wisconsin Women Library Workers

The annual Cookie/Book Exchange always yields a rich list of recommended readings. Here are some works that made an impression on WWLW members in 1997.

FICTION

• Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice and A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie R. King (mysteries)
• Cloud Chamber, by Michael Dorris
• The Deep End of the Ocean, by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, by Nancy Farmer (for young readers)
• Honor Bound, by Faith Baldwin
• Hunters and Gatherers, by Francine Prose
• The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
• Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson (for young readers)

NON-FICTION

• Always Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964
• Books that Made the Difference: What People Told Us, by Gordon & Patricia Sabine
• Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs, by Sue Hubbell
• Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys, by Dave Barry
• Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. 1, 1884-1933, by Blanche Wiesen Cook
• Gay New York, by George Chauncey
• Life on the Screen: Identify in the Age of the Internet, by Sherry Turkle
• Lost bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota, by Renee Sansom Flood
• Patty's Journey: From Orphanage to Adoption and Reunion, by Donna Scott Norling
• The Price You Pay: The Hidden Cost of Women's Relationship to Money, by Margaret Randall
• Quivey's Grove Heritage Cookbook, by Margaret Guthrie
• The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War, by Lynn H. Nicholas
• Scientist in the City, by James Trefil
• Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, by Shelby Foote
• Talking from 9 to 5, by Deborah Tannen
• Terrible Honesty: Tales of Mongrel Manhattan, by Ann Douglass
• Travelers' Tales: A Woman's World, ed. by Marybeth Bond
• VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever

POETRY

• In a Time of Violence, by Eavan Boland

TV SHOWS

• Wishbone (PBS series)

--Compiled by Sue Searing

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