Readers

PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
BOSTON 2006

Readers' Maps:

Blending Fiction and Nonfiction Readers' Advisory
Through Reading Itineraries

 

From India to the USA...

 

 

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

(Houghton Mifflin, 2003; Mariner, 2004)

 

 

 

Other Books Along the Way:

 

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakarunit

 

Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa

 

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

 

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

 

 

Where to go next?

 

Minaret by Leila Aboulela

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot

The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

The Armchair Traveler

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Presented by

Nancy Pearl, Author/Speaker; Retired
Cathleen Towey, Library Development Specialist, Gold Coast Library
Neal Wyatt, Collection Management Senior Librarian, Chesterfield County Public Library