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 - coverGilead by Marilynne Robinson Flight - coverFlight by Sherman Alexie
     
Trouble is my Business - coverTrouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler   The Pesthouse - cover The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
     
Arthur and George - coverArthur and George by Julian Barnes   What Is The What - coverWhat Is The What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers
     
The Cheater's Guide to Baseball - coverThe Cheater's Guide to Baseball by Derek Zumsteg   Eat, Pray, Love - coverEat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
     
The Post-Birthday World - coverThe Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver   without a map - coverWithout a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall
     
Empire of Blue Water - coverEmpire 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 - coverThe God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
     
Nickel and Dimed - coverNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich   Promise Not To Tell - coverPromise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon
     
A Thousand Splendid Suns - coverA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini   Coal Black Horse - coverCoal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
     
Without a Map - coverWithout a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall   Astrid and Veronika - coverAstrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
     
The Great Deluge - coverThe Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley (coming out in paperback in July)   Empire of Blue Water - coverEmpire 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