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Indie Bookstore Proprietors Reveal Their Top 5 Holiday Reads

by Sophy on Dec 23rd, 2011

Carla Edgar

Business Day‘s Wanted magazine has approached five of South Africa’s favourite indie bookstore proprietors, asking them to share their top five holiday reads.

Last week we featured Mervyn Sloman’s top 5, which revived some older gems like The Marginal Safari by Justin Fox, while voicing support for recently released titles, including Ivan Vladislavic’s The Loss Library.

Today we bring you the favourite holiday reads of Kalk Bay Books‘ Ann Donald, Love Books‘ Kate Rogan, The Book Cottage and, finally, Carla Edgar of Nice Books. Pay close attention, friends, this is a particularly unique batch:

Ann Donald, Kalk Bay Books:

An Inconvenient YouthLiving Longer, Living BetterThe Price of CivilizationThe Prague CemeteryThe Art Museum

1. An Inconvenient Youth by Fiona Forde: essential — if troubling — reading for every South African who cares about the future. Forde offers valuable insight into the making of Julius Malema.

2. Living Longer, Living Better by Lionel Opie: the world’s leading medical researcher on heart/brain health, SA’s Professor Lionel Opie provides the scientific facts behind health myths and offers a sensible, readable approach to living well and long.

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Kate Rogan, Love Books:

The Art of FieldingFire SeasonThe Astonishing Secret of Awesome ManMade in SicilyTweeting the Universe

1. The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach: this is the next big thing in American fiction. Baseball, love and family all come together in a very fine debut.

2. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors: this is an ode to the great American wilderness and a tribute to solitude. It’s an outstanding book and is destined to become a classic.

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The Book Cottage:

Idees vol vreesThe Hare with Amber EyesSteve JobsRoomKoekemakranka

1. Idees vol vrees by Kobus Galloway: if you’ve lived in SA for long enough to know that a robot is not family of R2-D2, and you like puns, homophones and other equally enthralling figures of speech you have to own a copy.

2. The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal: this is more than about the injustice to a family that caused a loss of art and money. It also deals with the role of religion in our lives and how we respond to it.

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Carla Edgar, Nice Books:

Steve JobsThe Night CircusThe Shadow WorldThe Mysterious StrangerDiary of a Wimpy Kid

1. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: an intimate autobiography from the man who changed our digital lives forever.

2. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: selected by Amazon as one of the top books of 2011, it follows a circus that quietly appears in different towns and only opens at night.

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