Summer Reading Recommendations by and for Adults 2013
A special thank you to everyone who recommended titles for this list.
If you read something this summer that you enjoy, let me know. We’ll include it next year.
A special thank you to everyone who recommended titles for this list.
If you read something this summer that you enjoy, let me know. We’ll include it next year.
Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
A Dual Inheritance – Joanna Hershow
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet - Reif Larson
Matterhorn: a Novel of the Vietnam War – Karl Marlantes
Paradise City – Archer Mayor
Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Northern Borders - Howard Frank Mosher
The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer
Canyons – Gary Paulsen
The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
Orchard House - Lucinda Riley
New York: the Novel – Edward Rutherfurd
Okay for Now - Gary D. Schmidt
A Light Between Oceans: A Novel – M. L. Stedman
Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
Beautiful Ruins - Jess Walter
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
Non-Fiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo
The Dude and the Zen Master – Jeff Bridges
Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History – Ken Burns and Duncan Dayton
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry - Billy Collins Vermont Reads 2013
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea – Barbara Demick
Hundred Languages of Children: the Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education
– C. Edwards, ed.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin – Erik Larson
Thomas Jefferson: the Art of Power – Jon Meacham
Country Girl: A Memoir – Edna O’Brien
Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield – Jeremy Scahill
Have a great summer!
