The Books

Selections for December 2007 through March 2008:

Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (adult fiction)

No One Makes It Alone, Andrew Valdez (adult nonfiction)

Princess Academy, Shannon Hale (young adult)

DEX: The Heart of a Hero, Caralyn Buehner & Mark Buehner (children)

Past Selections

Spring/Summer 2007

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (fiction and young adult)

Amelia's Road by Linda Jacobs Altman (children)

Autumn/Winter 2006

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (fiction)

The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II by Klancy Clark De Nevers (nonfiction)

Yoko by Rosemary Wells (children)

Journey to Topaz by Yoshiko Uchida (young adult)

Spring/Summer 2006

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (fiction)

The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea (nonfiction)

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say (children/young adult)

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (children/young adult)

Autumn/Winter 2005

Adult nonfiction: Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

Adult fiction: An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg

Children's/Young Adult: Charlotte's Rose by Ann Cannon

Spring/Summer 2005

Adult fiction: Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Children's/Young Adult: City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Children's/Young Adult: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Autumn/Winter 2004

SLC Reads Together no longer recommends its first nonfiction selection, written by an author who refers to himself as Nasdijj. Many "facts" he recounts in his book are fabrications and misrepresentations. The author is not who he represents himself to be and has engaged in outrageous and malicious conduct that should not be countenanced. In light of the behavior of and fraud perpetrated by the author, which The Navajo Times and LA Weekly have amply documented, we no longer recommend the book.

Adult fiction: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Chiuldren's: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien