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Top Ten Books I'd Like for Hanukkah

Happy Top Ten Tuesday! Hanukkah starts next Thursday night, so I decided to put this list out to the powers that be this week. I'd been carefully cultivating this list for a while, and then I added the last half of it in one go, and discovered that all I really want right now is cookbooks, or more accurately, food history. That might not have been all I wanted in the past or all I want in the future, but hey, all we have is the present. We are who we are right now, and if we didn't already know that, many of us have had to learn this year.

Top Ten Books I'd Like for Hanukkah

  1. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
  2. Man Fast by Natasha Scripture
  3. The Raven Boys box set by Maggie Stiefvater
  4. Walden by Henry David Thoreau, a trade paperback so I can write in the margins
  5. Devotions by Mary Oliver
  6. The Jewish Cookbook by Leah Koenig and Julia Turshen
  7. Vegetable Kingdom by Bryant Terry
  8. Zahav by Michael Solomonov
  9. Sababa by Adeena Sussman
  10. The Jemima Code by Toni Tipton-Martin

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Lydia said…
Happy early Hanukkah!

I love Mary Oliver's poetry. I hope you get all of the books on this list.

My post.
December 1, 2020 at 10:14 AM
Judy Krueger said…
What a great list! I hope you get all of them.
December 1, 2020 at 12:55 PM
iloveheartlandX said…
Happy early Hanukkah! I hope you get some of these :)
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/top-ten-tuesday-292/
December 1, 2020 at 1:08 PM
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said…
I especially hope you get Walden and Devotions! Happy (early) Hanukkah!
December 1, 2020 at 2:16 PM
Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse said…
I loved The Raven Boys, so I hope that one makes its way to you! Happy Hanukkah!
December 1, 2020 at 4:54 PM
Christopher @ Plucked from the Stacks said…
I'm the same way this year! Cookbooks and food history have taken a lot of my bookish focus. The Jemima Code is brilliant.
December 7, 2020 at 2:15 PM
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