This year's recommendations for the best summer reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.
by Patrick O'Brian
W. W. Norton & Company
by
Vintage
by Colin Channer
One World/Ballantine
by Madison Smartt Bell
Vintage
by Derek Walcott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Percival Everett
Graywolf Press
Mystery
by Maggie Estep
Broadway
by Jeff Talarigo
Anchor
by Natsuo Kirino
Vintage
by Carol Goodman
Ballantine Books
Non-fiction
by Nadine Cohodas
Billboard Books
by Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King
Thorndike Press
by Roya Hakakian
Crown
by Roya Hakakian
Crown
by Geoffrey C. Ward
Vintage
by Peter Bogdanovich
Knopf
by Alan Tennant
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Gift & Cofeetable Books
by Ntozake Shange
Atria Books
by Les Daniels, Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear
Harry N. Abrams
by Herb Boyd
Sourcebooks MediaFusion
by Walker Evans
Yale University Press
Cookbooks
by Fran Bigelow, Helene Siegel
Clarkson Potter
by Jack Bishop
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Books for Smart Alecks (Humor)
by Brendan Powell Smith
Quirk Books
Children
by Public Domain
Amistad
by Lois Ehlert
Harcourt Children's Books
by Alice McGill
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Wendy Lamb Books
Shelia Egan, "A Likely Story" Children’s Bookstore
For Younger Readers
by Harriet Ziefert
Blue Apple Books
by Martin Waddell
Margaret K. McElderry Books
by Susan Hood
Rc2
by Marion Dane Bauer, Karen Katz
Little Simon
by Peter H. Reynolds
Candlewick
by Sam McBratney
Candlewick
by Karma Wilson
Margaret K. McElderry Books
by Robert McCloskey
Viking Juvenile
by Helen Ward
Chronicle Books
For Older Readers
by L. M. Elliott
HarperTeen
by Audrey Penn
Tanglewood Press
by Walter Dean Myers
Holiday House
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Macmillan Children's Books
Barbara Hoffert, Editor of the Book Review at Library Journal
Fiction
by Michel Faber
Mariner Books
by Louis de Bernieres
Vintage
by Masha Hamilton
Unbridled Books
by Elizabeth Frank
Random House Trade Paperbacks
by Elliot Perlman
Riverhead Hardcover
by Carolyn Slaughter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Chelsea Cain
Bloomsbury USA
Non-fiction
by Nicholas Murray
Yale University Press
by Nigel Slater
Gotham
by Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
Back Bay Books
by Geoffrey C. Ward
Vintage
Poetry
by Derek Walcott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Jean Valentine
Wesleyan