Summer Reads
June 18, 2017
recommended books
showing author, title, publisher and (in parentheses) contributor
Fiction
Butler, Carmen - The Cedar, D. E. Campbelle Literary Works, 2016 (Patty Stockdale)
Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel, Scribner, 2017 (Mary Frantz)
Drapkin, Martin - The Cat Tender, Dog Ear Publishing, 2016 (Marty Drapkin)
Kingsolver, Barbara - Homeland & Other Stories, Harper & Row, 1989 (Ruth Calden)
Macmillan, Gilly - The Perfect Girl: A Novel, William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016 (Bob Park)
Paterson, Katherine - The Great Gilly Hopkins, HarperCollin, 2004 (Erin Bosch)
unknown - W.U.R.M., web serial (Elijah Richards)
Nonfiction
Bloom, Harold - Falstaff: Give Me Life, Scribner, 2017 (Marty Drapkin)
Brown, Ian - The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son, St. Martin's Press, 2011 (Peggy Small)
Denby, Charles - Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, Wayne State University Press, 1989 (Pam Gates)
Feynman, Richard P. - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
Kelly, Martha Hall - Lilac Girls: A Novel, Ballantine Books, 2017 (Cheryl Robinson)
Klein, Naomi - No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, Haymarket Books, 2017 (Anne Urbanski)
Logan, Ben - The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People, University of Wisconsin Press, 2017 (Gary Gates/Cindy O'Neill)
Maddow, Rachel - Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, Broadway Books, 2013 (Anne Urbanski)
Miodownik, Mark - Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World, Mariner Books, 2015 (Barb Park)
Shirer, William L. - Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 (Kent Wenger)
Stevenson, Bryan - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Spiegel & Grau, 2015 (Heidi Hughes)
Stout, Martha - The Sociopath Next Door, Harmony, 2006 (Gary Gates)
various - Modern Love, The New York Times, 2017 (Mary Mullen)

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