Thanksgiving Day 2010: 19 Books HuffPost Readers And Editors Are Thankful For This Year (PHOTOS)

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[anyanwubutler]

07:37 PM on 12/02/2010

I am currently reading and loving Charles de Lint's The Painted Boy. Jay has left his overbearing grandmother in Chicago and arrived in the desert southwest with only a change of clothes. She tells him he's got a dragon inside him as well as on his chest. He's a charming kid, speaks all languages, and though he's only worked in Chinese restaurants before, he starts working and cooking for Rosalie's Tio's Mexican restaurant.
I've also loved this year Mudbound by Hillary Jordan that takes place in Mississippi in 1946-7 on a farm in the Delta, where change doesn't comes as fast as two (all?) of the characters need it to come.
Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis are two books set during World War II in England and are about the heroism and sacrifices of the people who were not the soldiers, but were fighting the war.
The Lonely Polygamist by Barry Udall is about a man with four wives and 28 children going through a doozy of a midlife crisis.
Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chaltis Anke’s father is raping her older sister, beating her older brother and he terrorizes the whole family, and she’s jealous. It's heartbreaking and wonderful.

[WHTrout]

02:50 PM on 11/29/2010

I can't believe that the new "Autobiography" by Mark Twain isn't on this list! The publication of Twain's "Autobiography" is a MAJOR addition to American Literature -- and quite a romp of a read!

[EmmaFrost]

07:19 PM on 11/28/2010

I am fond of Isabel Allende. Just finished Island Beneath the Sea, a very interesting period piece that takes place in 1770 in the Antilles. Reading about harsh slavery in the cane fields can be very painful but the book has a lyrical quality and much historical information. Wonderful characters, lush descriptions.

[codemo]

06:16 PM on 11/28/2010

"A Confederacy of Dunces" John Kennedy Toole.

[Mahi Joe]

06:47 AM on 11/29/2010

Ever read "The Neon Bible" by Toole? Such a tragedy to have lost such a great author like JKT.

[codemo]

06:15 PM on 11/28/2010

"Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban, written in the English spoken in England four thousand years from now. I've read it twice - once aloud to a friend.

[lezanelson]

03:03 AM on 11/27/2010

"A Fine Balance" - one of the best I've ever read!

[Rodolfo Rabonza]

04:07 PM on 11/26/2010

'Attaining the World Beyond' by Michael Laitman

[peterz]

10:48 AM on 11/26/2010

horrible that the HP Book page highlights the likes of Palin, Little Bush, Football, and the Pope along side Faulkner and Heller....please create a Comic Book page for this other stuff.....

[Berlusca]

01:20 PM on 11/26/2010

Hey now, Snoopy and Woodstock do not deserve that kind of company.

[peterz]

03:05 PM on 11/26/2010

Sorry, you are correct!

[egaeus]

08:24 AM on 11/26/2010

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton

1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Next by Michael Crichton

[jakiew]

03:39 AM on 11/26/2010

'The Five Rules of Thought' and all her books, by Mary T.Browne.

[TheGreyDuck]

02:02 AM on 11/26/2010

A little explanation of what's beyond the books' covers could have gone a long way.

[Shzron1946]

05:31 AM on 11/28/2010

They don't read. HP needs to find a well-read editor, someone who can speak knowledgeably about the book world. I just ventured into this section for the first time to read a couple of articles and I must tell you, this is a real disappointment, so far.

[ShambalaMountain]

01:50 AM on 11/26/2010

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by D.T. Suzuki

[codemo]

06:00 PM on 11/28/2010

Good one.

[ShambalaMountain]

06:36 PM on 11/28/2010

Thanks for recognizing the title. That book changed my life.

[EmmaFrost]

07:19 PM on 11/28/2010

Yes to Suzuki.

[ethancorso]

12:56 AM on 11/26/2010

Milan Kundera...'The Joke' & 'The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'.

[EmmaFrost]

07:23 PM on 11/28/2010

"Unbearable Lightness of Being" is one of my most memorable books.

[namewithheld]

12:23 AM on 11/26/2010

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

[ItsBarranti]

12:20 AM on 11/26/2010

Deer Hunting With Jesus, which should be required reading for the Democratic intelligentsia in this country, because it hit the nail on the head. Why does 1/3rd of the country vote against its own interests? Because they're numb, and because the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy is actually trying to reach out to them, instead of just making fun of them.