# 25 Aug 2005, 01:35PM: Recommended Books:
An acquaintance asked for book recommendations. I thought of a few. I'll share them here:
- "The Twinkie Squad" by Gordon Korman
- "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope
- "The Bug" by Ellen Ullman
- "Crescent" by Diana Abu-Jaber
- "Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ted Chiang
- "21 Dog Years" by Mike Daisey
- "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell
- "America: The Book" by The Daily Show
- "Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael" by Francis Davis
- "The Innocents Abroad: Or, The New Pilgrims Progress" by Mark Twain
- "First Test" (Protector Of The Small Vol. 1) by Tamora Pierce
