(Photo by Toshi Otsuki) DIANE ACKERMAN is the author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses, Dawn Light, and The Zookeeper’s Wife, among many other books. She lives in upstate New York. She recommends: Still to Mow: Poemsby Maxine Kumin (W. W. Norton) To Be Read in 500 Years: Poemsby Albert Goldbarth (Graywolf) 2008 Recommendations: To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessingsby John O’Donohue (Doubleday) Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books by Donna Seaman (Paul Dry Books) The Shadow Factory by Paul West (Lumen Books) The Planets by Dava Sobel (Viking)

(Photo by Toshi Otsuki)

DIANE ACKERMAN is the author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses, Dawn Light, and The Zookeeper’s Wife, among many other books. She lives in upstate New York. She recommends:

  • Still to Mow: Poems
    by Maxine Kumin (W. W. Norton)
  • To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems
    by Albert Goldbarth (Graywolf)

2008 Recommendations:

  • To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
    by John O’Donohue (Doubleday)
  • Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books by Donna Seaman (Paul Dry Books)
  • The Shadow Factory by Paul West (Lumen Books)
  • The Planets by Dava Sobel (Viking)