Holiday Books Alan Cheuse gives his list of picks for the best literature to buy this holiday season. His list includes a new translation of the Odyssey by Robert Fagles; Continental Drift by James Houston; Quicker than the Eye by Ray Bradbury; In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry on CD by Rhino Records; The Norton Anthology of African American Literature; Lost Tales by Gleb Botkin; and The Children's Book of the Virtues by William Bennett.

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Holiday Books

December 6, 199612:00 AM ET

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Alan Cheuse gives his list of picks for the best literature to buy this holiday season. His list includes a new translation of the Odyssey by Robert Fagles; Continental Drift by James Houston; Quicker than the Eye by Ray Bradbury; In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry on CD by Rhino Records; The Norton Anthology of African American Literature; Lost Tales by Gleb Botkin; and The Children's Book of the Virtues by William Bennett.