When it comes to favorite beach blanket reads, fiction is often the first thing we pick. A saucy romance or fast-paced page turner; a dog-eared bestseller; maybe a classic re-read for the third time. But for book lover Kelly Horan, non-fiction tops her list this summer. Kelly is a writer and journalist who runs the Friday Night Authors Series at Jabberwocky Bookshop in Newburyport, Massachusetts. We asked her to tell us about two books that tell true tales, but read like the best novels.
The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
by Nicholas Dawidoff (Pantheon)
The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery
by Leigh Montville (Doubleday)
