Holiday Book list - 2001
with Brad Zellar and Faith Sullivan
December 18, 2001

Midmorning's annual holiday booklist. Author Faith Sullivan and bookstore owner Brad Zellar reveal a list of their favorite books, just in time for the holidays.

Brad Zellar is the Midwest correspondent for Publisher's Weekly and the co-owner of Rag and Bone Books, a used bookstore in Minneapolis.

• The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban, illustrated by David Small.
  Reissue of a classic tale, with stunning new illustrations by Caldecott-winner David Small.
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro.
  Another terrific collection of short stories by the living master of the form.
• Our Band Could Be Your Life, Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad.
  Profiles of legendary and semi-legendary punk and indie bands, including the Replacements and Hüsker Du.
• The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.
  A new, fully-revised edition of the classic work on baseball analysis and statistics, by the guy who revolutionized the way statisticians look at the game. Lively, entertaining, and often very funny.
• Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald.
  A stunning novel by an absolutely unique writer who was killed in a car accident in December.
• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech.
  A powerful story of a boy who learns to grieve for a lost pet through poetry.
• Among the Missing by Dan Chaon.
  National Book Award-nominated collection of short stories.
• Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold.
  Magic, history, mystery, and Warren Harding.
• Jay's Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Sideshow Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments by Ricky Jay.
  A visually spectacular and colorfully written book that is every bit as colorful as its title.
• Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins.
  More nutballs, eccentrics, and big dreamers. The undertow of celebrity and history.
• My Ears Are Bent and McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, both by Joseph Mitchell.
  Reissues of two classics of New Yorker journalism/literary reportage.
• Collected Stories by Eudora Welty.
Still the pinnacle of off-kilter Southern fiction. Better than ever.
• Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competetive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis.
• The Library of America.
  Durable and handsome editions of the classics of American literature, from Twain and Thoreau to Dawn Powell and the great crime novelists.
• The Phaidon 55 series.
  Beautiful and affordable collections of photographs - 30 different photographers to choose from.
• The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Peter Constantine.
  New edition of the entire output of an inimitable writer who died in a Soviet concentration camp.

Faith Sullivan, a Minnesota novelist, is the author of The Cape Ann and The Empress of One. Her latest book is, What A Woman Must Do.

• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
• Shop Girl by Steve Martin.
• Fried Green Tomatoes or anything by Fanny Flagg.
• Northanger Abbey or anything by Jane Austin.
• The Inimitable Jeeves or anything by P.G. Wodehouse.
• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym.
• Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken by Shannon Olson.
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Ann Fadiman.
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot.
• The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault.
• How to Talk Minnesotan by Howard Mohr.
• Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Lanvik.
• The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth by Bill Holm.
• The Bean Trees: A Novel or Pigs in Heaven:A Novel, both by Barbara Kingsolver.
• Christmas Pudding or Love in a Cold Climate, both by Nancy Mitford.
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
• Dispatch from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion by Robert Siegel.
• Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Pages 1985-1995 by Bill Watterson.
• The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey.
• Licks of Love by John Updike.
• Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance by Larry Millett.
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.
• John Adams by David McCullough.
• Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000 by Jonathan Croall.
• Heartbeat: George Bush in His Own Words
• The Kennedy Men by Laurence Leamer.
• The Kennedy White House by Carl Anthony.
• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris.
• Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour.
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg.
• Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende.
• I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage.
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich.
• Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
• Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy.
• Range of Light by Valerie Miner.
• Hell's Bottom, Colorado by Laura Pritchett.
• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Araya.