Oblong Books & Music

Suzanna Hermans, Oblong's co-owner and manager of our Rhinebeck store, appears regularly on The Roundtable, WAMC's morning show.

Here's a list of her book picks and links to hear each segment:

June 29, 2010 

Listen

The Passage by Justin Cronin
Double Happiness by Mary-Beth Hughes
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
One Day by David Nicholls
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

April 13, 2010 

Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

 

February 23, 2010 

A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew
Selby and Greg Campbell
A Very Big Bunny by Marisabina Russo
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Ultimate Guide by Rick Riordan
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk

December 22, 2009 

October 22, 2009

Picture Books
Otis by Loren Long
Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman
The Christmas Magic by Lauren Thompson, illustrated by Jon Muth

Middle Grade
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
The Secret Science Alliance & the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

Young Adult
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
The Amanda Project: invisible i by Stella Lennon

 

August 18, 2009

Listen

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay

The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin

The Film Club by David Gilmour

Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

 

The 39 Clues Series, Various Authors

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Hoot, Flush, and Scat by Carl Hiaasen

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Genesis by Bernard Beckett

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

 

Life List by Olivia Gentile

The Craftsman by Richard Sennett

Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York by Eric Sanderson, illustrations by Markley Boyer

A Walk in New York by Salvatore Rubbino

Sergio Saves the Game! by Edel Rodriguez

The Enemy: A Book About Peace by Davide Cali & Serge Bloch

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

 

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

The Kept Man by Jami Attenberg

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

French Milk by Lucy Knisley

Humpty Dumpty Climbs Again by Dave Horowitz

Pete & Pickles by Berkeley Breathed

A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter

The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A Northern Light by Liza Donnelly

 

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

American Lion by Jon Meacham

Traitor to His Class by HW Brands

Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz

Listening to Stone by Dan Snow

A Platter of Figs by David Tanis