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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