Included as one of 'Listener Favorite Holiday Books' on Michael Krasny's Forum program, November 29, 2005 KQED Archive http://www.kqed.org/kqedstore/forum.jsp Gilead -- Marilynne Robinson The Street of Crocodiles -- Bruno Schulz Is There No Other Way?: The Search for a Nonviolent Future -- Michael Nagler Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds -- Dan Shapiro China Boy -- Gus Lee What Painting Is -- James Elkins Against All Odds -- Amalie Hedwig Langmueller Fabric of the Cosmos -- Brian Greene Spychips -- Katherine Albrecht, Liz McIntyre We Need to Talk About Kevin -- Lionel Shriver The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq -- George Packer Noah's Flood -- Walter Pitman, William Ryan Class Matters -- Bill Keller Black Elk Speaks -- John G. Neihardt Cosmic Banditos -- A. C. Weisbecker Crashing America -- Katia Noyes The Burn Journals -- Brent Runyon Pengey the Penguin -- John Burns (at www.pengey.com) Crossing to Safety -- Wallace Stegner Enchanted, Inc. -- Shanna Swendson The Underdog: How I Survived the World's Most Outlandish Competitions -- Joshua Davis Light on Life -- B. K. S. Iyengar The Life of Pi -- Yann Martel The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini The Professor's Daughter -- Emily Raboteau Guns, Germs and Steel -- Jared Diamond A Girl Named Zippy -- Haven Kimmel Too Close to the Falls -- Catherine Gildiner The Rule of Four -- Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason Hungry Planet -- Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio Not Wanted on the Voyage -- Timothy Findley The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology -- Ray Kurzweil Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games: An Introduction. -- John David Funge This Thing of Darkness -- Harry Thompson The Discovery of Slowness -- Sten Nadolny A Million Little Pieces -- James Frey America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction -- John Stewart, the writers of The Daily Show The War on Truth: 9/11 Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism -- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed The Phantom Tollbooth -- Norton Juster Words to Live By: A Journal of Wisdom for Someone You Love -- Emily and Kate Marshall Caught Stealing -- Charlie Huston Giving from Your Heart -- Dr. Bob Rosenberg, Guy Lampard A Different Universe -- Robert B. Laughlin The Glory of Their Times -- Lawrence Ritter Atrocity Archives -- Charles Stross Declare -- Tim Powers How to Argue and Win All the Time -- Gerry Spence Birds Without Wings -- Louis De Bernieres Complications -- Atul Gawande Love's Executioner -- Irving D. Yalom Case Histories -- Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum -- Kate Atkinson History of Love -- Nicole Krauss The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri Cryptonomicon (a series) -- Neal Stephenson Game of Shadows -- Mark Phenoruana , Lance Woods (not published yet, two Chronicle Journalists) Death of Innocents -- Sister Helen Prejean Class: A Guide Through the American Status System -- Paul Fussell His Dark Materials Trilogy -- Philip Pullman A Night in Lonesome October -- Roger Zelazny Strange Saint -- Andrew Beahrs Worrwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl -- Mary Mycio Little Beauties -- Kim Addonizio Timely Insights Into Timely Truth -- Kenneth J. Brown The Peace Finder: Riley McFee's Quest for World Peace -- Joan McWilliams The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved -- Todd Oppenheimer If the River Was Whiskey -- T.C. Boyle Fathers and Sons -- Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Maharinis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament -- Lucy Moore In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching -- P.D. Ouspensky The Historian -- Elizabeth Kostova Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal -- Christopher Moore Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Stories -- Peter Phillips, Project Censored Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson The Case of the Seven of Calvary (out of print) -- Anthony Boucher On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction -- William Zinnser The Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2005 Edition -- Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize Editors