Your Favorite Summer Reads
Summer is a great time for kicking back and chillin' with a terrific book. We asked our customers to share their own lists of great summer reads. And here they are! Thanks for your response.
Dear Janet and friends,
What a great idea! I had a hard time keeping it down to ten!
1 and 2: Plain Song and Eventide by Kent Haruf (you need to read both,
you know).
3. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
4. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (read slowly and savor).
5. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
6. My Antonia by Willa Cather
7. Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig
8. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
9. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
10. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and all
subsequent books).
Some classics, but summer is a wonderful time to read them and take your
time to enjoy every word.
Thanks for the opportunity to share.
Fondly,
Andy Huggins
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bk 1, The Bartimaeous Trilogy) by Jonathan Stroud
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
Helen Neal
Great offer! My list of recently read books that I enjoyed :
Love Walked In by Marisa De los Santos
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Modoc by Ralph Helfer
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
Honeymoon With My Brother by Franz Wizner
Thanks,
Kim Kouzmanoff
A compilation of other readers' lists for adults...
Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
The Last Child, John Hart
Summer's Chile, Diane Chamberlain
Breaking the Silence, Diane Chamberlain
Japan took the J.A.P out of Me, Lisa Feinberg Cook
The Teahouse Fire, Ellis Avery
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Raven Stole the Moon, Garth Stein
The Devil's Code, John Sanford
Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
The Horse Boy, Rupert Isaacson
Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me, Howie Mandel
A Mighty Long Way My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, Carlotta Walls Lanier (she lives in Denver)
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, Carlos Eire
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan
and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America, Russell Shorto
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson (any in his Walt Longmire mystery series)
Dead or Alive, Michael McGarrity
Kill Me, Stephen White (he lives in Denver)
Stucker's Reach, Scott Gibson, (he lives in Evergreen)
Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Harry Potter series, J.K Rowling
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True, Brigid Posulka
Cutting For Stone, Abraham Verghese
As It Is In Heaven, Niall Williams
Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins
That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquirel
Love Walked In, Marisa De los Santos
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
Modoc, Ralph Helfer
The Last Chinese Chef, Nicole Mones
Honeymoon With My Brother, Franz Wizner
Brooklyn Toilbin(?)
The Kitchen Boy
Heartburn, Nora Ephron
In The Woods, Tara French
Likeness, Tara French
Sweeping Up Glass, Carolyn Wall
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, et al (three books), Stieg Larsson
Any of the Phillipa Gregory books
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bk 1, The Bartimaeous Trilogy), Jonathan Stroud
Atonement, Ian McEwan
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Nine Parts of Desire, Geraldine Brooks
Black Swan Green. David Mitchell
The Night Birds, Thomas Maltman
The Ghost in Love, Jonathan Carroll
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, Bebe Moore Campbell
A compilation of other readers' lists for younger adult readers...
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Brisinger by Christopher Paolini
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Maximum Ride: School's Out- Forever by James Patterson
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
Maximum Ride: The Final Warning by James Patterson
The Eye of the Oracle by Bryan Davis
Starlighter by Bryan Davis
Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis
The Alexander Cipher by Will Adams
Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley
Ophelia by Lisa Klein
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
River Secrets by Shannon Hale
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
Books of Pellinor by Alison Croggon -there are 4 books in this series
The Naming
The Riddle
The Crow
The Singing
East by Edith Pattou
The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennsion
Howl's Moving Castle series by Diana Wynne Jones - there are 3 books in this
series
Howl's Moving Castle
House of Many Ways
Castle in the Air
Dragon Spell, Dragon Quest, Dragon Dragon Knight, Dragon Fire, Dragon Light
by Donita K. Paul (local author live in colorado Springs)
House of Night Series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Sweet Seduction, Sweet Surrender, Sweet Persuasion, and Sweet Temptation by Maya Banks
Fast Track Series by Erin McCarthy there are 3 books so far in the series
Hard and Fast
Flat - Out Sexy
Hot Finish (out August 3rd)
Pride & Prejudice
Tuesdays With Morrie
Stardust
Twlight Series
The Man Who Loved Clowns
