Summer Books 2006

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By Laura Knoy on Friday, June 30, 2006.
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Maybe you'll go classic with John Updike's latest fiction "Terrorist", Maybe you'll go local with Granite State author Sy Montgomery's new porcine novel "The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood", maybe it’s the sporty new Babe Ruth bio or maybe you'll be adventurous and tackle the books for this year's Granite State Stories. Whatever your fancy, there are a ton of great new books out for the summer of 2006. Today on the Exchange, we'll explore some of the hottest books making their way to the beach towel, deck chair or under the hammock. Laura's guests are Dan Chartrand, co-owner of the Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH and Michael Herrmann, Owner of Gibson's Bookstore in Concord, NH.

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Dan Chartrand / Water Street Bookstore's Top 10 Summer Reading List:

Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions by Julianna Baggott and Steve Almond
The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel by Kim Edwards
Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
A Long Way Down: A Novel by Nick Hornby
Literacy and Longing In L.A.: A Novel by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
Suite Francaise: A Novel by Irene Nemirovsky
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips

 Michael Herrmann's Top 10 Summer Reading List:

History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
The Good Good Pig, by Sy Montgomery
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Smashed, by Koren Zailickas
Life Work, by Donald Hall
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
Tourist Season, by Carl Hiaasen
Getting Stoned with Savages, by J. Maarten Troost
History of the World in Six Glasses, by Tom Standage
When the Emperor was Divine, by Julie Otsuka

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