Thank you to everyone who "donated" suggested adult reading for the summer.
Here is the list. As you can see, Jodi Picoult was the favored author, by far.
Please post additional books if you would like and I will keep a running list and
publish a hit later in the spring.
Monica Gardner
LMS
Eastbury Elementary School
Glastonbury CT
mgbg0489@aol.com
Summer Reading List-2007
* Multiple recommendations
! Recommended as Excellent
*19 Minutes-Jodi PIcoult
44 Scotland Street-Alexander McCall Smith
Absurdistan- Gary Shteyngart (Hilarious and informative)
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised
As a Girl- ?? NF??
*Beach Music-Pat Conroy
Blue Bottle Club- Stoker
*The Book Thief- Marcus Zusak
The Bookseller of Kabul- Asne Seierstad
*Born on a Blue Day- check ??
!The Boy in the Striped Pajamas- John Boyne
!Broken for You-Stephanie Kallos
Caramelo-Sandra Cisernos
Daughter of Fortune-Isabelle Allende
*Digging to America- Anne Tyler ???
*!Double Bind- Chris Bohjalian
Elements of Style- Wendy Wasserstein ???
Evensong-Kent Haruf
Expresso Tales- Alexander McCall Smith
Family Tree-Barbara Delinsky
The Five People You Meet in Heaven-Albom
A Girl Named Zippy- Haven Kimmel
(also has a sequel)
God and Generals-
Grayson-Lynne Cox
I Hate My Neck and Other Thoughts on
Being a Woman-Nora Ephron
Ines of My Soul- Isabelle Allende
It Takes a Village Idiot- Jim Mullen
Killer Angels- (Civil War-Gettysburg)
*The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
(He also has a new one coming out)
Knitting Rules
The Last Full Measure-
Letter Perfect-
The Lords of Discipline- Pat Conroy
!Manhunt:The Twelve Day Chase for
Lincoln’s Killer-James L. Swanson
March-Geraldine Brooks
Me and Orson Welles-Robert Kaplow
*The Memory Keeper’s Daughter-??
Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman
Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe-
George Johnson
Mozart and the Whale- Asperger’s
My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult
Odd Thomas series-???
Pastwatch- Orson Scott Card
Peace Like a River- Leif Enger
Plainsong-Kent Haruf
The Red Tent- ???
*The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She Got Up Off the Couch-Haven Kimmel
(this is a sequel)
She’s Come Undone-Wally Lamb
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan-Lisa See
Step Ball Change and other books by Jeanne Ray
*The Tenth Circle- Jodi Picoult
!The Tender Bar- JR Moehringer
They Poured Rain On Us From the Sky- Alphonsion Deng et al
*The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield
Too Close to the Falls- Catherine Gildiner
Tortilla Curtain-T.C. Boyle
Tuesdays with Morrie-Albom
Vanishing Acts-Jodi Picoult
*Water for Elephants- Sara Gruen
The Water is Wide-Pat Conroy
We Are All Welcome Here-Elizabeth Berg
The Whistling Season- Ivan Doig
Nonfiction books:
Chapel on the River-?? (memoir)
Dispatches From the Edge-Anderson Cooper
Dresden-
Eat, Pray, Love-Elizabeth Gilbert
!The Innocent Man: Murder & Injustice in a Small Town
John Grisham
Marley and Me-John Grogan
Recommended Authors:
Mary Higgins Clark
Donald Hall (poetry and essays)
Jane Kenyon (poetry and essays)
Mary Oliver (poetry and essays)
*Jodi Picoult
*Alexander McCall Smith
Ann Rinaldi
Steven Sorta ??
Adriana Trigiani-The Big Stone Gap series
Recommended Series:
Big Stone Gap series-Trigiani
Maisie Dobbs series
Joe Grey Series by Shirley Roussseau (mysteries/cats)
Odd Thomas Series
Culinaria cookbook series
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