Book picks from our Friday Roundtable guests

Jim Ragsdale, state capitol reporter for the Star Tribune, is reading "New York: The Novel" by Edward Rutherford.

Javier Morillo, president of SEIU local 26, is reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom" and Diane Keaton's memoir, "Then Again."

Peter Bell, former chairman of the Metropolitan Council, is reading "Unbroken" by Laura Hildenbrand.

-Meggan Ellingboe, assistant producer

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