Oh, hello! I didn’t see you standing out there! Come in! Come in from the cold, warm yourself by the fire! Here, have some hot cocoa and a candy cane to stir your marshmallows with. I’ll put some Vince Guaraldi Trio on the ol’ record player. Ahh, isn’t that nice and cozy? Now, if only we had a nice book to read…
What’s that, you say? We can simply look at Heard on the Hill’s annual gift-giving/book recommendation guide to help us pick a real page-turner, verified by political insiders? Well, why didn’t you say something earlier?
We asked more than 100 people with impressive-sounding job titles to name the best books they read this year. Only 10 of them replied. Infer what you will about the intellectual curiosity and/or literacy of our elected officials and their aides.