Holiday books: Great reading for the season

By Carolyn Kellogg

Dec. 3, 2015 11:30 AM PT

Check out our holiday book picks: 148 books that will please and delight, engage and soothe, intrigue, invigorate and inspire. It’s the season for giving, for getting -- and for reading.

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.