How Can I Keep from Reading
July 3, 2011
books recommended by contributors
Fiction
Brown, Margaret Wise - Goodnight Moon, HarperCollins, 2005 (Toni Coles)
Brown, Rita Mae - Hiss of Death: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery, Bantam, 2011 (Doleta Chapru)
Dickens, Charles - Hard Times, Simon & Schuster, 2007
Eagleman, David - Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, Vintage, 2010 (Al Nettleton)
Feinberg, Leslie - Drag King Dreams, Seal Press, 2006 (Toni Coles)
Fortier, Anne - Juliet: A Novel, Ballantine Books, 2011 (Erin Bosch)
Nemirovsky, Irene - Dimanche and Other Stories, Vintage, 2010 (Rosemarie Lester)
Nemirovsky, Irene - Fire in the Blood, Knopf, 2007 (Rose Smith)
Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise, Vintage, 2007 (Ruth Calden)
Pyper, Andrew - The Wildfire Season: A Novel, Picador, 2008 (Barbara Park)
Rhodes, David - Driftless, Milkweed Editions, 2009 (Mary Frantz)
Seuss, Dr. - The Cat in the Hat, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1957 (Toni Coles)
Simonson, Helen - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010

Nonfiction
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi - Infidel, Free Press, 2008 (Gordon Cunningham)
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi - Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, Free Press, 2010 (Gordon Cunningham)
Blair, Tony - A Journey: My Political Life, Knopf, 2010 (Lee Haspl)
Boylan, Jennifer Finney - She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, Broadway, 2004 (Toni Coles)
Braestrup, Kate - Here If You Need Me: A True Story, Back Bay Books, 2008 (Gordon Cunningham)
Daly, Herman E. and Joshua Farley - Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications, Island Press, 2003 (John Frantz)
Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus - The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008
Franco, Joseph - Hoffa's Man: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa As Witnessed by His Strongest Arm, Simon & Schuster, 1987 (Phoenix Wardel)
Giffey, David (ed.) - Long Shadows: Veterans' Paths to Peace, Atwood Publishing, 2006 (Dan Proud)
Grayling, A. C. - The Good Book: A Humanist Bible, Walker & Company, 2011 Al Nettleton)
Herriot, James - All Creatures Great and Small, St. Martin's, 1972 (Rose Smith)
Kushner, Harold S. - When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Anchor, 2004 (Kate Liu)
Manchester, William - The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War, Back Bay Books, 2003
Mansbach, Adam - Go the F**k to Sleep, Akashic Books, 2011
Safina, Carl - The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, Henry Holt, 2011 (Galen Smith)
Safina, Carl - Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur, Henry Holt, 2006 (Galen Smith)
Stanger, Margaret - That Quail, Robert, Harper Paperbacks, 1992 (Metje Butler)

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