SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS

An assortment of favorites in no particular order

Fiction Non-Fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini When Smoke Ran Like Water by Devra Davis
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver* First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy* Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt*
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
Trinity by Leon Uris Not Even Wrong by Paul Collins
With No One as Witness by Elizabeth George* The Children by David Halberstamm
The Beans of Egypt Maine by Carolyn Chute Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh*
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Marley & Me: Life & Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
  All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
  The State Boys Rebellion by Michael D'Antonio
  The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
  My Life in France by Julia Child & Alex Prud'Homme
   

* And just about anything else by these authors.  Especially recommended: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the additional Forsythe novels by John Gallsworthy.

Here's what's on my agenda for this summer.

Fiction

Non-Fiction

 

See you on the beach!