Please find below two summer reading lists. The first is the list gathered from
this list serv. The second is the list I will be giving my staff which includes
their recommendations along with my own.
Enjoy.
Monica Gardner
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)
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons-
Astonishing Floases of Color-Clare Morrall
*Beach Music-Pat Conroy
Blue Bottle Club- Stoker
*The Book Thief- Marcus Zusak
The Bookseller of Kabul- Asne Seierstad
!The Boy in the Striped Pajamas- John Boyne
!Broken for You-Stephanie Kallos
Caramelo-Sandra Cisernos
Cranberry Queen- Kathleen DeMarco
Daughter of Fortune-Isabelle Allende
*Digging to America- Anne Tyler ???
*!Double Bind- Chris Bohjalian
The Dresden Files-series-Jim Butcher
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-Jeff Shaara
Grayson-Lynne Cox
I Hate My Neck and Other Thoughts on
Being a Woman-Nora Ephron
The Hot Flash Club-Nancy Thayer
Ines of My Soul- Isabelle Allende
It Takes a Village Idiot- Jim Mullen
Killer Angels- (Civil War-Gettysburg)-Michael Shaara
*The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
(He also has a new one coming out)
Knitting Rules- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The Last Full Measure-Jeff Shaara
The Last Days of Dogtown-Anita Diamant
Letter Perfect-Cathy Marie Hake
The Lords of Discipline- Pat Conroy
Love in the Present Tense- Catherine Hyde
!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-Kim Edwards
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
Nearer Than the Sky-T.Greenwood
Odd Thomas series—Dean Koontz
One Thousand White Women-
The Other Boleyn Girl-
Pastwatch- Orson Scott Card
Peace Like a River- Leif Enger
Plainsong-Kent Haruf
*The Red Tent- Anita Diamant
The Same Sweet Girls-
*The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon
*The Secret Life of Bees-Sue Monk Kidd
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
Summer Guest- Justin Cronin
*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
The Time Traveler’s Wife-Audrey Niffenegger
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:
*Born on a Blue Day: The Extraordinary Mind
of an Autistic Savant-Daniel Tammat
Chapel on the River (memoir)Gwendolyn Bounds
Dispatches From the Edge-Anderson Cooper
Eat, Pray, Love-Elizabeth Gilbert
!The Innocent Man: Murder & Injustice in a Small Town
John Grisham
Marley and Me-John Grogan
Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised
As As a Girl- John Colapinto
Recommended Authors:
Mary Higgins Clark
Harlen Coben
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
Saints and Sinners of Okay County and The Wings that Fly Us Home by
Dayna Dunbar
Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew.
Staff Summer Reading 2007
Non-Fiction
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of
Food Life- Barbara Kingsolver
A Year in the World-Frances Mayes
Eat, Pray, Love-Elizabeth Gilbert
No Time to Lose- Pema Chodron
The Places In-Between- Rory Stewart
We Tell Ourselves Stories- Joan Didion
A Hand to Guide Me-Denzel Washington
Living a Life that Matters- Harold Kushner
The Art of Aging- Sherwin Nuland
Grace (Eventually) -Anne Lamott
The Bookseller of Kabul-Asne Seierstad
How Doctors Think- Jerome Groopman
The Big House- George Howe Colt
Little Chapel on the River- Gwendolyn Bounds
Small Wonder-Barbara Kingsolver
The Glass Castle (memoir)- Jeannette Walls
Girls of Tender Age- MA Tirone Smith
Fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khalid Hosseini
author of Kite Runner
Abundance-Sara Jeter Naslund
Atonement- Ian MacEwan
Body Surfing- Anita Shreve
The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
Burning Bright-Tracy Chevalier
Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven-Fannie Flagg
Case Histories- Kate Atkinson
The Double Bind- Chris Bohjalian
Dream When You’re Feeling Blue-E. Berg
The Edge of Winter- Luanne Rice
For One More Day-Mitch Albom
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive-McCall Smith
(a continuation of a series)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See
Hummingbird’s Daughter- Luis A. Urrea
The Ice Queen-Alice Hoffman
The Inheritance of Loss- Kiran Desai
Innocent Traitor- Alison Weir
Rise and Shine-Anna Quindlen
Sandcastles-Luanne Rice
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter-Kim Edwards
A Spot of Bother- Mark Haddon
One Good Turn: A Novel- Kate Atkinson
Water for Elephants-Sara Gruen
The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield
Past Perfect- Susan Isaacs
Skylight Confession- Alice Hoffman
The Tender Bar- J.R. Moehringer
The River Knows- Amanda Quick??
The Friday Night Knitting Club- Kate Jacobs??
Innocent Traitor-Alison Weir??
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel-Louise Murphy
(Holocaust)
Historical Fiction
The Constant Princess-Phillippa Gregory
Mystery
Angels Fall-Nora Roberts
Fresh Disasters-Stuart Woods
The Husband-Dean Koontz
Lean Mean Thirteen-Janet Evanovich
Short Straw- Stuart Woods
Authors
Jayne Ann Krentz ??
Past Favorites
Broken For You-Stephanie Kallos
Beach Music-Pat Conroy
Pillars of the Earth-Ken Follett
Plain Truth-Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult
A Natural History of the Sense-Diane Ackerman
The Known World- Edward Jones
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
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