If you're looking to spend time outside and with a good book but don't know where to start, Vermont Edition's summer booklovers show has got you. Youth librarian with the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro Lindsay Bellville, Flying Pig bookstore owner Elizabeth Bluemle, and The Bookstore in Brandon owner Barbra Ebling share their favorites.
Books recommended by our guests, listeners, and Vermont Public staff (in no order):
- The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys
- Into the Rapids by Ann Braden
- A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
- Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
- No Nest for the Wicket by Donna Andrews
- Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone by Sarah Graves
- Gentle: Rest More, Stress Less and Live the Life You Actually Want by Courtney Carver
- Spent by Alison Bechdel
- Heartwood by Amity Gaige
- My Friends by Fredrik Backman
- The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
- The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog and Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science by Carly Anne York
- The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life by Helen Whybrow
- The Harder I Fight the More I Love You by Neko Case
- The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like This by Veena Dinavahi
- The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner
- Blood in the Water by Tiffany D Jackson
- On Again, Awkward Again by Erin Entrada Kelly
- You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir by Harry Bliss
- A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- Year of No Garbage by Eve Schaub
- What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci
- The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos
- What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking by Tina Oziewicz & Aleksandra Zajac
- Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers
- Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen
- The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
- This is Happiness by Niles Williams
- The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
- Joyfully Shattered: Physician's Awakening at the Crossroads of Science and Spirituality by Rick Sheff
- Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Sammy Davis Jr., Jane Boyar, and Burt Boyar
- The Vanishing Generation by Irene Musillo Mitchell
- Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller
Broadcast live on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
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