Summer Reads 2008

As part of The Exchange's Summer Reads program, Dan Chartrand of Water Street Bookstore in Exeter and Michael Herrmann of Gibson's Bookstore in Concord share their top summer books.

Michael Herrmann recommends:

  

Dan Chartrand recommends:

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

In the Woods by Tana French

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Final Theory by Mark Alpert

The Downhill Lie by Carl Hiaasen

Walking the Wrack Line by Barbara Hurd

Plus three books for kids:

Picture book: I’d Really Like to Eat a Child by Silviane Donnio

Middle reader: Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Young Adult: Perfect by Natasha Friend

Great Fiction Summer Reads

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III

So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger

Careless In Red by Elizabeth George

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

The Boat by Nam Le

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Top Books for Father’s Day Giving

For “Sensitive” Dad: The Film Club: A Memoirby David Gilmour

For “Wonky” Dad: The Post-American Worldby Fareed Zakaria

For “Historical” Dad (American History Division): If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy—From the Revolution to the War of 1812 by George Daughan

For “Historical” Dad (British History Division): The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

For “Thriller” Dad: Final Theory: A Novel by Mark Alpert