Mon 6/24/13 Noon & 7PM Summer is officially here. That means it’s time to break out a beach chair, and a few good books. Fiction and non-fiction, great literature to quick read guilty pleasures- nothing is off the table. What are you looking forward to reading this summer? Email vermontedition@vpr.net or post your suggestions here.
We're joined by Callie Newton, bookseller at Bartleby's Books in Wilmington, and Mike DeSanto, Co-owner of Phoenix books in Burlington and Essex.
Also on the show, we continue to impress our friends and neighbors with things we learn on Summer School. Today we'll take up skateboarding.
We've compiled a list of all books recommended by listeners and guests.
Summer 2013 Book List:
1984 by George Orwell
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Bennan
A Primates Memoir by Robert Sapolsky
Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey
Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals by Ann and Reeve Lindbergh
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
Aubrey Maturina Series by Patrick O’Brien
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen
Beastly Things by Donna Leon
Big Data by Schonberger and Cukier
Birds of A lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bringing up the Bodies by Anna Dibble
Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Alice Hoffman
Dance of the Sea Gull by Andrea Camilleri
DCI Bank Series by Peter Robinson
Dead Lie Down by Sophie Hannah
Double Bind by Chris Bojalian
Escape from Camp Fourteen by Blaine Harden
Fade to Black by Francis Knight
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Game of Thrones Series by George R.R. Martin
Hour of the Rat by Lisa Brackmann
I Lost My Love in Baghdad by Michael Hastings
Inferno by Dan Brown
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
Island Apart by Steven Raichlen
Joyland by Stephan King
Listen Below the Noise by Anne D. LeClaire
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chodron
London Falling by Paul Cornell
Long Half-Time Walk by Billy Lynn
Lost Cat by Caroline Paul
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rakoff
Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Mother Night: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
My Beloved Brontosaurus by Brian Switek
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
My Cool Campervan by Jane Field-Lewis
Noon at Tiffany’s by Echo Haven
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers by Alec Hastings
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit by Beth Terry
Quiet by Susan Cain
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher and Ruth Ross
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend by Susan Orlean
Robertson Davies Books
Serena by Ron Rash
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
Shark vs. Train by Chris Bartin and Tom Lichenheld
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Something Abides by Howard Coffin
Sparta by Roxana Robinson
Still Life by Louise Penney
Stone Sisters by Sarah Ward
Summerkin by Sarah Prineas
Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
The Buzzard Table by Margaret Maron
The Celestials by Karen Shepard
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Dairy of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
The Good House by Ann Leary
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hare with the Amber Eyes
The Healing by Jon O’Dell
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
The Human Division by John Scalzi
The Interestings by Meg Wolitizer
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Last Book Club of Your Life by Will Schwalbe
The Light of the Ruins by Chris Bohajalian
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
The Mystery of Mere Cat Hill Alexander McCall Smith
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaimen
The Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian
The Orphan Master’s Song
The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Summer Book by Tove Jannson
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards: A Novel by Kristopher Jansma
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Thomas Jefferson by John Meacham
To Eat by Joe Eck
To Eat: A Country Life by Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd, Bobbi Angell, and Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta
Tolkien Trilogy
Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Wedding in Hatai by Julia Alverez
Where the Light Falls by Katherine Keenum
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Why Does the World Exist by Jim Holt
Why Does the World Exist? By Jim Holt
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Wolf Hall by Hilary Montell
