Phoenix Library Top Holiday Book List

Library’s Top Holiday Book List Includes Cooking, Living, Coping

Phoenix Public Library’s “top holiday reads” include inspirational books for the season of thanks and giving. Kathleen Sullivan, Phoenix Public Library’s collection development coordinator, recommends the following:

1. Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito have written a book many consider “the” cookbook for the season. “Baked: New Frontiers in Baking” offers excellent modern recipes for everything from granola to fancy cakes.
2. In “Quiet Mind: One Minute Retreats from a Busy World,” author David Kundtz offers the reader mini-meditations to calm the mind and spirit in the midst of a busy day.
3. If you know someone who wants to write a story, autobiography or journal, a great resource and user-friendly guide is SARK’s (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) “Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories, and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It.”
4. “Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health” offers 175 recipes for making teas, tonics, oils, salves and tinctures to support family health.
5. In “Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time,” Pavel G. Somov offers comfort and practical advice for healthy eating year round.
6. “The Smart Cookies’ Guide to Making More Dough” by The Smart Cookies. The subtitle says it all: “How Five Young Women Got Smart, Formed a Money Group, and Took Control of their Finances.”
7. “The Little Book of Thrifty Fixes for the Home” by Bridget Bodoano is the perfect gift for the do-it-yourself person. It offers practical advice on how to prioritize projects and choose those that offer the most “bang for the buck.”
8. For the person who wants to make “living their life” their work of art consider “Live Boldly” by Mary Anne Radmacher. It offers gentle challenges to readers to help them reach this goal.
9. One recipe for happiness is sharing a delightful book with a child. Sandra Boynton’s “Moo, Baa, La, La, La!” is a charming and inexpensive board book that parents can read again and again to their child. It also is available in Spanish as “Muu, Beee, Asi Fue!”
10. For the fiction reader on your list, consider “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer. This is an inspirational story told in the form of letters, about how the residents of England’s Channel Islands survived the Nazi occupation.

Phoenix Public Library is a system of 14 branch libraries and the Burton Barr Central Library. For more information, call 602-262-4636 or visit phoenixpubliclibrary.org.

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