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In the past week, I have received two requests for holiday titles — first for a Christmas pick with a female perspective (more on that next week) and then the next day for ideas for Thanksgiving ideas.
Here’s what I’ve come up with so far after a preliminary search for Thanksgiving reads…
- Thanksgiving Night: A Novel by Richard Bausch
- Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich
- Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
- Bitter Harvest by Susan Bowden
- The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
- Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
- Thanksgiving: A Novel in Celebration of America by Terry Coleman
- Souvenir of Cold Springs by Kitty Burns Florey
- Pushing 30 by Whitney Gaskell
- Dear James by Jon Hassler
- Dear Mrs. Lindbergh by Kathleen Hughes
- Dolce Agonia by Nancy Huston
- Bitter Harvest by Susan Bowden
- Courting Disaster by Julie Edelsone
- Model Behavior by Jay McInerney
- Good Grief by Lolly Winston
- Thanksgiving Over Water by Sandy Stephen
MyShelf has a Thanksgiving recommendations
as does this library site
Now, most of these recommendations seem to simply take place around Thanksgiving…
So, I’m throwing this topic out to my readers. What books do you think bring home the idea of gratitude? Or, from a historical perspective, what books bring to life the early days of the settlers?
Thank you so much for posting this!
For a fictional account of the Plymouth Colony there’s “Plymouth: A Light Enkindled” by Jamie Ogle. Since my husband is descended from four of the passengers of the Mayflower – Thanksgiving has always been to us about the foundation of our country and of course, family and ancestry. It is our day to remember who we are, where we came from and how we got here.
I was asking about this during the Sunday Salon awhile back. Thanks for the recommendations. Now I’m not sure about books that bring home the idea of gratitude…I’ll have to think about that!
Thank you, Cynthia!! And please let me know if you think of any, Amy…
I’m still thinking, too
Nonfiction–I just listened to Sarah Vowell read her own latest work–The Wordy Shipmates–excellent for Thanksgiving time! Funny and educational!
Thanks for the recommendations. Now I’m not sure about books that bring home the idea of gratitude. It is our day to remember who we are, where we came from and how we got here.