Book Pick Extra: 'TransAtlantic,' plus readers' choices
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Kerri Miller's book pick this week is Colum McCann's "TransAtlantic." As he did in "Let the Great World Spin," McCann weaves together the stories of real people — Frederick Douglass, Sen. George Mitchell and others — with fictional characters.
Kerri interviewed McCann in the studio on Monday.
BOOK PICK EXTRA: Readers' favorite history novels
• "Dancing at the Rascal Fair" by Ivan Doig
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• "Over the Earth I Come" by Duane Schultz
• "Watergate" by Thomas Mallon
• "The Harbinger" by Jonathan Cahn
• "Dutch" by Edmund Morris
• "Citizen Vince" by Jess Walter
• "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb
• "The March" by E.L. Doctorow
• "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy
• "11/22/63" by Stephen King
• "1,000 White Women" by Jim Fergus
• "Burr" by Gore Vidal
• "The Last Temptation of Christ" by Nikos Kazantzakis
• "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson
• "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr
• "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
• "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• "The Chaperone" by Laura Moriarty
• "Exodus" by Leon Uris
• "Matterhorn" by Karl Marlantes
• "Winds of War" by Herman Wouk
