Summer Reads
June 14, 2015 recommended books showing author, title, publisher and (in parentheses) contributor
Fiction Atkinson, Kate - Life After Life: A Novel, Back Bay Books, 2014 (Anne Pryor) Barbery, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Europa Editions, 2008 (Ruth Calden) Bond, Michael - Monsieur Pamplemousse A Gastronomic Mystery, Fawcett Crest Ballantine, 1988 Bryson, Bill - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir, Broadway Books, 2007 (Deesa Pence) Butler, Nickolas - Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, 2015 (Robin Proud) Crehore, Dave - The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 (Al Nettleton) Goodkind, Terry - Sword of Truth Series, Tor Fantasy, 1995-2006 (Jamye & Ryan Camp) Harris, Joanne M. - The Gospel of Loki, Gollancz, 2014 (Susan Hagstrom) Hoffman, Alice - The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel, Scribner, 2014 (Barbara Chatterton Frye) Lester, Joan Steinau - Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong, Zondervan, 2012 (Barbara Park) Oates, Joyce Carol - Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, Plume, 1994 (Anne Urbanski) Palacio, R. J. - Wonder, Knopf, 2012 (Pam Gatess) Revoyr, Nina - Wingshooters, Akashic Books, 2011 (Andy Garst) Rhodes, David - Driftless, Milkweed Editions, 2009 (Robin Proud) de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine - The Little Prince, HMH Books for Young Readers, 2013 Nonfiction Barry, John M. - Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, Simon & Schuster, 1998 (Dan Proud) Harari, Yuval Noah - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, HaperCollins, 2015 (Bob Park) Kizzia, Tom - Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier, Broadway Books, 2014 (Bob Park) Myron, Vicki - Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Grand Central Publishing, 2008 (Rose Smith) Piketty, Thomas - Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press, 2014 (Warren Hagstrom) Rubin, Gretchen - Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, Crown, 2015 (Orange Schroeder) Rubin, Gretchen - The Happiness Project, HarperCollins, 2010 (Orange Schroeder) Solomon, Andrew - Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, Scribner, 2012 (Gary Gates) Vreeland, Susan - The Forest Lover, Penguin Books, 2004 (Mary Frtanz)
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.