HIT: Summer Reading Part 2

[Karen DeFrank <dlb@snip.net>]

The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy
Ranch by Danielle Steel
Isle of Woman + Shame of Man by Piers Anthony
Master Switch by William H. Stender
Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Evening Class by Maeve Binchey
Murder at Ebbets Field and Murder at Fenway Park by Troy Soos
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. (British detective trying to
decide if Richard III deserves his bad rep)
Riding Shotgun by Rita Mae Brown (time travel from present day fox hunt
to 1600's)
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland (Post-apocolyptic, set in near future in
northern CA)
Dream Man by Linda Howard (very interesting murder mystery)
Son in the Morning by Linda Howard (deals with Robert the Bruce) (?)
Valentine by Tom Savage (excellent plot twist)
Mitford series by Jan Karon
Foreigner, Invader, Inheritor by C. J. Cherryh
Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Mick Harte was Here by Park
Robin Hobb's Assassin series
Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey
Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
Mars and Venus in the Bedroom by John Gray
What color is your parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
Wild Swans:three daughters of China
Memoir:All rivers run to the sea by  Elie Wiesel
everything by Barbara Tuchman
When Nietzche Wept
anything by Barbara Kingsolver
anything by Jane Smiley
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Devil in the Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley
anything by Anne Tyler.
The Weight of Water by Shreve
Total Control by Baldacci
Silent witness by Patterson
The Partner by Grisham
The List by Martini
Confederacy of Dunces by Toole
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
In my mother's house by Kim Chernin
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Partner (or any) by John Grisham
Sole Survivor (or any) by Dean Koontz
Airframe (or any) by Michael Crichton
Horse Whisperers by Nicholas Evans
Cat who said cheese (or any) by Lillian Jackson Braun
anything by Karen Kijewski
anything by Darian North
anything by Carol O'Connell,
anything by J.A. Jance
anything by James Patterson
anything by Richard North Patterson
anything by Nancy Taylor Rosenburg
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Time and Again by Jack Finney (time travel to NY of 1800's)
This Stranger, My Father by Hawks
anything by Barbara Kingsolver esp. High Tide in Tucson
Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
TOTAL CONTROL by Baldacci
Ashes To Ashes by Lyn Riddle  (will be out this month)
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
anything by James Lee Burke
The Only Good Yankee by Jeff Abbott (funny mysteries set in the South)
anything by Angela Thirkell (1930's to 1960's most set in the fictional
county of Barsetshire)(for Jane Austen fans)
anything by Miss Read (set in small English villages, she continues to
write one every year)(for Jane Austen fans)
A Reporter's Life: Walter Cronkite (don't miss it)
James Morris' History of the British Empire:
        Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
        Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire
        Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (novel about history of philosophy)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
You Went Away by Timothy Findlay
Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson (My favorite)
The beekeeepers apprentice by Laurie King
A monstrous regiment of women (Both of these are about Sherlock
        Holmes and his female assistant)
Beyond the burning time by Kathyrn Lasky
Memoirs of a bookbat
The golden compass by Philip Pullman
Missing the Piano by Adam Rapp  (Exquisite read)
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
The Dream of Eagles Series by Jack Whyte  (arthurian legends)
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Eight by Katherine Neville (mystery, history, chess, mystical stuff,
and exotic places)
anything by Patricia Cornwell
Detective Thabbet by Dorothy Simpson (great English mysteries)
Brighten The Corner Where You Are; I Am One Of You Forever; Farewell,
For I Am Bound To Leave You
They Came Like Swallows and Old Man At The Railroad Crossing by The Big
Picture" by Douglas Kennedy
Ranch" by Danielle Steel
Piers Anthony's Isle of Woman + Shame of Man
Master Switch by William H. Stender
Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Maeve Binchey's new book Evening Class
Murder at Ebbets Field and Murder at Fenway Park by Troy Soos
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. (British detective trying to
decide ifRichard III deserves his bad rep)
Riding Shotgun by Rita Mae Brown (time travel from present day fox hunt
to 1600's)
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland (Post-apocolyptic, set in near future in
northern CA)
Dream Man by Linda Howard (very interesting murder mystery)
Son in the Morning by Linda Howard (deals with Robert the Bruce) (?)
Valentine_by Tom Savage (excellent plot twist)
Mitford series by Jan Karon
Foreigner, Invader, Inheritor by C. J. Cherryh
Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Mick Harte was Here by Park
Robin Hobb's Assassin series
Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey
Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
Mars and Venus in the Bedroom by John Gray
What color is your parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
Wild Swans:three daughters of China
Memoir:All rivers run to the sea by  Elie Wiesel
everything by
Barbara Tuchman
When Nietzche Wept
anything by Barbara Kingsolver
anything by Jane Smiley
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Devil in the Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley
anything by Anne Tyler.
The Weight of Water by Shreve
Total Control by Baldacci
Silent witness by Patterson
The Partner by Grisham
The List by Martini
Confederacy of dunces by Toole
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
In my mother's house by Kim Chernin
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Partner (or any) by John Grisham
Sole Survivor (or any) by Dean Koontz
Airframe (or any) by Michael Crichton
Horse Whisperers by Nicholas Evans
Cat who said cheese (or any) by Lillian Jackson Braun
anything by Karen Kijewski
anything by Darian North
anything by Carol O'Connell,
anything by J.A. Jance
anything by James Patterson
anything by Richard North Patterson
anything by Nancy Taylor Rosenburg
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Time and Again by Jack Finney (time travel to NY of 1800's)
This Stranger, My Father by Hawks(?)
anything by Barbara Kingsolver esp. High Tide in Tucson
Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
TOTAL CONTROL by Baldacci
Ashes To Ashes by Lyn Riddle  (will be out this month)
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
anything by James Lee Burke
The Only Good Yankee by Jeff Abbott (funny mysteries set in the South)
anything by Angela Thirkell (1930's to 1960's most set in the fictional
county of Barsetshire)(for Jane Austen fans)
anything by Miss Read (set in small English villages, she continues to
write one every year)(for Jane Austen fans)
A Reporter's Life: Walter Cronkite (don't miss it)
James Morris' History of the British Empire:
        Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
        Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire
        Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (novel about history of philosophy)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
You went away by Timothy Findlay
Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson (My favorite)
The beekeeepers apprentice by Laurie King
A monstrous regiment of women (Both of these are about Sherlock
        Holmes and his female assistant)
Beyond the burning time by Kathyrn Lasky
Memoirs of a bookbat
The golden compass by Philip Pullman
Missing the piano by Adam Rapp  (Exquisite read)
The hundred secret sences by Amy Tan
The Dream of Eagles Series by Jack Whyte  (arthurian legends)
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Eight by Katherine Neville (mystery, history, chess, mystical stuff,
and exotic places)
anything by Patricia Cornwell
Detective Thabbet by Dorothy Simpson (great English mysteries)
They Came Like Swallows and Old Man At The Railroad Crossing by         William
Maxwell
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff (these are autobiographies by two
brothers who were brought up by divorced partents - one with mom and one
with dad)
Brighten The Corner Where You Are, I Am One Of You Forever, and
Farewell, For I Am Bound To Leave You by Fred Chappell
Thinking In Pictures And Other Reports From My Life With Autism by
Temple Grandin
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series "Master and Commander".
Last Orders by Graham Swift
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Light in the window; These high green hills; At home in Mitford by Jan
Karon
The Laughing Sutra and Iron and Silk by Mike Salzman
Crazy in Alabama by Childress
Red Azalea; and Katherine by Ainchee Min (China during the cultural
revolution)
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (the ENTIRE Arthurian
legend told from the women's point of view (especially Morgan Le Fey).
The Merlin Effect by  T. A. Barrons (alsoa new three part series about
the lost years of Merlin)
In the beauty of the lilies by John Updike
Love, again by Doris Lessing
Last orders by Graham Swift


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Karen DeFrank, Media Specialist
Dorothy L. Bullock Elementary School
Glassboro,  NJ  08028
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