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Off the Beat: Book Recommendations from Madison Police Officers

 

Book recommendations by Madison Police Department officers who work the downtown beat: Meredith York, Jean Papalia, Kip Kellogg, Paul Dailey, Linda Covert, Brian Cheney.

 

Children’s Books

  • No Jumping on the Bed by Tedd Arnold
  • Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
  • Axle Annie by Robin Pulver
  • Axle Annie and the Speed Grump by Robin Pulver
  • Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Fiction

  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • The 4th Perimeter by Tim Green
  • Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson
  • The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
  • Boudica: Dreaming the Hound by Manda Scott
  • Duchess of Nothing by Heather McGowan
  • Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
  • Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
  • The Indian Agent by Dan O’Brien
  • O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  • The Stones of Summer by Don Mossman
  • The Testament by John Grisham
  • The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

Mystery

  • Digger by Joseph Flynn
  • Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
  • The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
  • P is for Peril by Sue Grafton

Nonfiction

  • American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael Kauffman
  • The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
  • City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
  • Come Back to Afghanistan: a California Teenager’s Story by Said Hyder Akbar & Susan Burton
  • The Double Helix: a Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson
  • The Few: the American “Knights of the Air” Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain by Alex Kershaw
  • For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend by Patricia McConnell
  • From Baghdad with Love: A Marine, the War and a Dog named Lava by Jay Kopelman
  • Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis
  • Ghost Soldiers: the Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides
  • Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Fagan Yellin
  • “I am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
  • If I Live to be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians by Neenah Ellis
  • The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham
  • The Last Ridge: the Epic story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler’s Europe by McKay Jenkins
  • The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
  • The Origins of the Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  • The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall
  • Tales from Q School: Inside Golf’s Fifth Major by John Feinstein
  • Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
  • A Three Dog Life by Abagail Thomas
  • Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Last revised: 10/31/07



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