Summer Reads
June 12, 2016 recommended books showing author, title, publisher and (in parentheses) contributor
Fiction Alexander, Robert (ed.) & Eric Braun (ed.), - Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence, White Pine Press, 2016 (Barbara Chatterton Frye) Faber, Michel - The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel, Hogarth, 2015 Jemisin, N. K. - The Killing Moon, Orbit; 2012 (Dawn Hayslett) Jemisin, N. K. - The Shadowed Sun (Dreamblood), Orbit; 2012 (Dawn Hayslett) Johnson, Adam - The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel, Random House, 2012 Mantel, Hilary - A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel, Picador, 2006 (Robin Proud) Paretsky, Sara - Guardian Angel, 1993 Richards, Alan - New Penguin Book Of Welsh Short Stories, Viking UK, 1993 (Rose Smith) Said, Kurban - Ali and Nino: A Love Story, The Overlook Press, 2013 (Rosemarie Lester) Shute, Nevil - Trustee From The Toolroom, William Morrow; 1960 (Robin Proud) Vreeland , Susan - The Forest Lover, Penguin Books, 2004 (Ron Frye) Yanagihara, Hanya - A Little Life, Anchor, 2016 (Mary Mullen) Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 (Bob Park) Nonfiction Calvino, Italo - Collection of Sand, Mariner Books, 2014 Clinton, Hillary Rodham - Hard Choices, Simon & Schuster, 2015 (Cindy O'Neill) Cowley, Betty - Stalag Wisconsin: Inside WWII Prisoner of War Camps, Lisa Loucks Christenson Publishing, 2002 (Pam Gates) Friend, Catherine - Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet, Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2011 (Barbara Park) Froese, Paul - On Purpose: How We Create the Meaning of Life, Oxford University Press, 2016 (Millie Moffett) Hammer, Joshua - The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts, Simon & Schuster, 2016 (Susan Hagstrom) Kondo, Marie - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, Ten Speed Press, 2014 (Orange Schroeder) Reilly M.D., Brendan - One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine, Atria Books, 2014 (Orange Schroeder) Reiss, Tom - The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life, Random House, 2006 (Ruth Calden) Stout, Martha - The Sociopath Next Door, Harmony, 2006 (Gary Gates) Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Scribner, 2006 (Mary Mullen)
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