Dan Chartrand and Michael Herrmann's 2009 Summer Reads

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Idiot America by Charles Pierce

The Likeness by Tana French

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Girl
Who Played with Fire, the sequel, coming out in late July)

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larson

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago by
Hape Kerkeling

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway (in paperback
August 11)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
and Jane Austen

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (for middle readers)

The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
(for young adults)

Books for Indian Summer:

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (coming out
Sept. 1)

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (coming out Sept.
1)

Fiction

Genesis by Bernard Beckett

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

The Likeness by Tana French

Ultimatum by Matthew Glass

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Border Songs by Jim Lynch

The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips

Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson

Non-Fiction

Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum

My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up by Russell Brand

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner
Party Bride by Daniel James Brown

The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller

Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies

The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years
After 50 by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Bittersweet: Lessons From My Mother’s Kitchen by Matt McAllester

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest
Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad

Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage by Sophia
Raday

The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn,
America’s Boldest Mountaineer by David Roberts

War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest
of America’s First Frontier by John F. Ross

Books we can't wait to sell

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Release
Date: July 28, 2009)

Catching Fire (Second Book of the Hunger Games Trilogy) by
Suzanne Collins (Release Date: Sept. 1, 2009)

The Last Day by James Landis (FIC) (Release Date: Sept.
1, 2009)

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Release Date: Sept 15,
2009)

That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo (Release Date:
August 4, 2009)

The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo (Release
Date September 8, 2009)