Summer Reads
August 5, 2012 recommended books showing author, title, publisher and (in parentheses) contributor
Fiction Anthony, Piers - For the Love of Evil, Harper Voyager, 1990 (Gary Gates) Boyle, TC - Talk Talk, Viking Adult, 2006 (Linda Colletti) Drapkin, Martin - Ten Nobodies (and their somebodies), Dog Ear Publishing, 2011 (Rick Ruecking) Duffy, Erin - Bond Girl: A Novel, William Morrow, 2012 (Lorry Bond) Dykewomon, Elana - Beyond the Pale, Raincoast Books, 2003 (Lorry Bond) Faulkner, William - Light in August, Vintage International/Random House, 1991 (Vera Cunningham) Fellowes, Julian - Snobs, St. Martin's Press, 2005 (Robin Proud) Ghosh, Amitav - Sea of Poppies, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 (Karen Deaton) Hanif, Mohammed - A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Knopf, 2008 (Anne Pryor) Howard, Elizabeth Jane - The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle), Washington Square Press, 1995 (Robin Proud) Iyer, Pico - Cuba and the Night: A Novel, Vintage, 1996 (Wayne Hammerstrom) Maathai, Wangari - Unbowed: A Memoir, Anchor, 2007 (Rose Smith) Peril, Lynn - Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office, W. W. Norton & Company, 2011 (Lorry Bond) Pynchon, Thomas - Mason & Dixon: A Novel, Henry Holt and Co., 1997 (Al Nettleton) Rubio, Gwyn Hyman - Icy Sparks, Penguin Books, 2001 (Anne Urbanski) Steinbeck, John - Burning Bright, Penguin Classics, 2000 (Marcia Johson) Thain, Judith - Alien Charm, iUniverse, Inc., 2004 (Rick Ruecking) Walker, Margaret - Jubilee, Mariner Books, 1999 (Bob Park) Winspear, Jacqueline - Maisie Dobbs, Penguin Books, 2004 (Robin Proud) Nonfiction Braestrup, Kate - Here if you Need Me: A True Story, Little, Brown and Company 2007 (Gordon Cunningham) Brown, Lester R. - World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, W. W. Norton & Company 2011 (KK Anderson) Dray, Philip - There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America , Anchor 2011 (Ken Haydock) Larson, Erik - In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, Crown 2011 (Gordon Cunningham & Pat Watkins) Mann, Charles C. - 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Knopf, 2011 (Galen Smith) Scholinski, Daphne - The Last Time I Wore a Dress, Riverhead Trade, 1998 (Anne Urbanski) Stanger, Margaret A. - That Quail, Robert, William Morrow Paperbacks, 1992 (Metje Butler) Wallace, Carol McD. - To Marry An English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started, Workman Publishing Company, 1989 (Robin Proud) Weatherford, Jack - Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Crown, 2004 (Nancy Garst)
Compiler's note: in most cases a recent publisher listed by Amazon.com is shown above. The same book may have been published earlier by a different publisher.