Tess Uriza Holthe: Holiday Gift Book Lists

This holiday, why not give the gift of literature? We will be posting reading lists and book buying suggestions from Filipino American authors here. We've previously posted lists from Eileen Tabios, Barbara Jane Reyes, Oliver de la Paz, Vangie Buell, Veronica Montes, Karen Llagas, Luis Francia, Ninotchka Rosca and Jessica Hagedorn, Tony Robles, Cecilia Brainard, Benito M. Vergara, Jr., Albert B. Casuga, R. Zamora Linmark, and Penélope V. Flores. This next list is from Tess Uriza Holthe:

NOTHING TO ENVY by Barbara Demick (Spiegel & Grau, 2009).

NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage, 2006).

JULIE & JULIA by Julie Powell (Back Bay Books, 2006).

DARKNESS TAKE MY HAND by Dennis Lehane (Harper, 2003). 

THE TOWN: A NOVEL by Chuck Hogan (Also sold as THE PRINCE OF THIEVES) (Scribner, 2004).

CUTTING FOR STONE by Abraham Verghese (Knopf, 2009).

CITY OF THIEVES by David Benioff (Viking, 2008).

SH*T MY DAD SAYS by Justin Halpern (It Books, 2010).

ALL THE PRETTY HORSES by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, 1993).

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy (Harper Perennial, 1998).

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS:
HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY by Suzanne Collins(Scholastic, 2010).

A NORTHERN LIGHT by Jennifer Donnelly (Graphia, 2004).

SHIVER/LINGER by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic, 2010).