Summer Books 2007

As part of The Exchange's 2007 Summer Book Preview, Michael Herrmann of Gibson's Bookstore in Concord and Dan Chartrand of Water Street Bookstore in Exeter share their top summer reads.

Michael Herrmann's Top 10 books:		Dan Chartrand's Top 10 books:
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson		Flight by Sherman Alexie
Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler		The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes		What Is The What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers
The Cheater's Guide to Baseball by Derek Zumsteg		Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver		Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty		The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich		Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini		Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall		Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley (coming out in paperback in July)		Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty