Indies First: What are authors giving and hoping to get this season?
As part of the Indies First celebration on Small Business Saturday 2015, we asked a dozen authors—some local, some further-flung—for their own holiday book-gift suggestions: one book they are giving this year, and one they'd love to receive. You can find their choices (and their own books) on display at Phinney Books:
Martha Brockenbrough, author of The Game of Love and Death
Give: Rhythm Ride by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Receive: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (her last copy got ruined in the wash—really)
William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days
Give: A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Receive: The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Sanae Ishida, author of Little Kunoichi, the Ninja Girl
Give: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Receive: Mr. Brown's Fantastic Hat by Ayano Imai
T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Welcome to Braggsville
Give: Erasure by Percival Everett
Receive: Honey from the Lion by Matthew Niell Null
Stephanie Kallos, author of Language Arts
Give: Syllabus by Lynda Barry
Receive: The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernières
Sonya Lea, author of Wondering Who You Are
Give: Thunder and Lightning by Lauren Redniss
Receive: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Peter Mountford, author of The Dismal Science
Give: How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
Receive: The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
David Neiwert, author of Of Orcas and Men
Give: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
Receive: Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
Mary Norris, author of Between You and Me
Give: Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
Receive: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes by Rick Riordan
Ann Pancake, author of Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley
Give: Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel by Robert Gipe
Receive: Our Only World: Ten Essays by Wendell Berry
Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back
Give: Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
Receive: Erratic Facts by Kay Ryan
