This past Sunday, our Half Price Books Dallas Flagship hosted Coffee with KERA, a special event for select winners during KERA’s annual membership drive. These lucky people got to visit with a who’s who of KERA hosts and hear about some of their favorite reads from the past year.
Check out their recommendations and let us know which ones you’ve read… and which ones you’ll add to your TBR pile!
Sam Baker, KERA’s Morning Edition Newscaster
- The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
- The Last Soul Company: The Malaco Records Story by Rob Bowman
- The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll by Ian S. Port
- Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout
- Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
- Paul R. Williams: Classic Hollywood Style by Karen Hudson
- Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice by Tad Hershorn
- Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs by Milt Hinton
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
Denita Malvern, KERA Director of Engagement and Inclusion
- Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper
- Just as I am by Cicely Tyson
- Stepping Forward: A Positive, Practical Path to Transform Our Communities and Our Lives by Richard C. Harwood
- How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart by Jamal Greene
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
- Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Tracey Michae’l by Giggetts
- The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Kaysie Ellingson, Managing Producer Video at KERA
- Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
- The Parade: A Novel by Dave Eggers
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- A Good Man is Hard to Find: And Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Krys Boyd, Host of Think at KERA
- Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams
- Ritual by Dimitris Xygalatas
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Stepping Back from the Ledge by Laura Trujillo
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
- The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh
- The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
- Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
- The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language by Rosemary Salomone
Jamie Jackson, Host of KERA’s Morning Edition Host
- The Space Barons by Christian Davenport
- Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet by Robert Robinson
- The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires by Dennis Kimbro
- The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Four Presidents and Race in America by April Ryan
- Crazy Love by Francis Chan
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- What Happened to You by Oprah Winfrey
- Simple Food, Big Flavor by Aaron Sanchez
- Recipes for the Good Life by Patti LaBelle
- Sweetie Pie’s Cookbook: Soulful Southern Recipes, From My Family to Yours by Robbie Montgomery
Find all these and more at your local store or online at HPB.com!