The 2011 Holiday Books Issue
Science Chronicles. December, 2011.

Table of Contents
Essay
3     Jeff Opperman: Let’s Not Be the Last Book on the Shelf
Fiction
6     Eisler: The John Rain Series (Reviewed by Charles Bedford)
7     Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story (Bedford)
8     Stephenson: Reamde (Susanna Danner)
9     Patchett: State of Wonder (Sara Gottlieb)
10     Fox: News from the World and Desperate Characters (Helen Hooper)
11     Torres: We the Animals (Hooper)
12    Ondatjee: The Cat’s Table (Bob Lalasz)
13     Harrison: The Great Leader (Matt Miller)
14     Allende: La Ciudad de Las Bestias (Jensen Montambault)
15     Collins: The Hunger Games Trilogy (Jen Newlin)
16     Meloy: Wildwood (Newlin)
Non-Fiction
17     Lawler and Worley: Built to Change (Reviewed by Karen Anderson)
18     Phillips: Wealth and Democracy (Joe Fargione)
19     Cooney: Change of Heart (Jon Fisher)
20     Hyland: Kinglake-350 (James Fitzsimons)
21     Fleming: News from Tartary (Eddie Game)
22     Leigh and Harding: Wikileaks (Game)
23     Mann: 1491 (Jon Hoekstra)
24     Spiegelman: The Complete Maus (Hooper)
25     Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature (Peter Kareiva)
26     Quammen: Song of the Dodo (Craig Leisher)
27     Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns (Lynn Lozier)
28     DeBuys: A Great Aridness (Patrick McCarthy)
29     Everett: Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes (Miller)
30     Conniff: The Species Seekers (Miller)
31     Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Bryan Piazza)
32     Frank: The Darwin Economy (Sheila Walsh)
33     Poem: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas...at TNC