Some Reading Recommendations from Nancy Pearl, Our Longtime Book Reviewer

Our guest is Nancy Pearl, the well-known librarian, bestselling author, and former executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. She's also a longtime book reviewer for KWGS-FM / Public Radio Tulsa, as she used to live and work in Tulsa, decades ago, before relocating to Washington State. We're very pleased to welcome Nancy back to StudioTulsa; she joins us to recommend several books she's been particularly enjoying over the past (often quite solitary) year or so. Here's the list of titles that she tells us about: Scott Anderson, The Quiet Americans: 4 C.I.A. Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War -- A Tragedy in 3 Acts . Ausma Khan, The Unquiet Dead . Mary Morris, All the Way to the Tigers . Emily Nemens, The Cactus League . Bridget Quinn, She Votes: How U.S Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next . Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas . Simon Stephenson, Set My Heart to Five . Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench . Eley Williams, Liar