What is your beach blanket book this summer? Whether you're lounging at the lake or relaxing poolside, we'll talk about this summer's hot books?from Bill Clinton's weighty new memoir to a novel some critics call the next DaVinci Code. Laura's back and she is joined by Jeff Smull, general manager at the Toadstool Bookshop in Keene and Carole Horne, head buyer at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA.
Some of our guests' suggestions -
Carole's list
Hardcover- Non fiction
Tracy Kidder: Mountains Beyond Mountains
Amy Goodman: Exception to the Rulers
Hardcover- Fiction
Edwidge Danticat: The Dew Breaker
Colm Toibin: The Master
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason: The Rule of Four
Paperback- Fiction
Edward Jones: The Known World
Henning Mankell: Faceless Killers (or others in the Kurt Wallendar mystery series)
Paperback- Non fiction:
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Adrian LeBlanc: Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Jeff's list
William Boyd: Any Human Heart
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason: The Rule of Four
Seth Kantner: Ordinary Wolves
Jim Collins: The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream
D.L. Smith: The Miracles of Santo Fico
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sarah Dessen: The Truth About Forever
Paul Stewart: The Edge Chronicles, Book 1: Beyond the Deepwoods(for ages 8 to 12)
