10 books to add to your reading list in December
LA TimesCritic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your December reading list. The Voyage Home: A Novel By Pat Barker Doubleday: 288 pages, $29 The final volume of Barker’s “Women of Troy” trilogy is narrated not by enslaved princess Briseis but by her friend Ritsa. Woo Woo: A Novel By Ella Baxter Catapult: 272 pages, $27 Skewering the art world in fiction is almost a tradition — think of “Cat’s Eye” by Margaret Atwood, and now, Ella Baxter’s second novel. Nonfiction Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic Film By Julie Gilbert Pantheon: 400 pages, $35 When Edna Ferber published her version of oil-country mores in “Giant” in 1952, it set many a Texan’s teeth on edge; its big-screen adaptation starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson set many a moviegoer’s pants on fire. Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures With a Clueless Craftsman By Patrick Hutchison St. Martin’s Press: 304 pages, $29 Who could resist a house selling for less than $10,000 with the name “Wit’s End”?
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