2007 Summer

2007 Summer

This year's recommendations for the best summer reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

This year's recommendations for the best summer reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review

Image of The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
by Anita Amirrezvani
Little, Brown and Company

Image of The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
Harper

Image of Finn: A Novel
by Jon Clinch
Random House

Image of The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel
by Stef Penney
Simon & Schuster

Image of Afterwards: A Novel
by Rachel Seiffert
Pantheon

Image of The Post-Birthday World
by Lionel Shriver
Harper

Image of Luncheon of the Boating Party
by Susan Vreeland
Viking Adult

Image of The Sonnet Lover: A Novel
by Carol Goodman
Ballantine Books

Image of Interred with Their Bones
by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Dutton Adult

Candida Mannozzi
Owner, Candida's World of Books

[Travel Writing]

Image of 100 Places Every Woman Should Go
by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Travelers' Tales

Image of Bad Lands (Lonely Planet) (Travel Literature)
by Tony Wheeler
Lonely Planet

Image of How to Eat Around the World: Tips and Wisdom
by Richard Sterling
Travelers' Tales

Image of No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
by Judith Martin
W. W. Norton & Company



Image of Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
by Xinran Xinran
Nan A. Talese

[Fiction]


Image of Voices of Time: A Life in Stories
by Eduardo Galeano
Picador

Image of Aya
by Marguerite Abouet
Drawn and Quarterly

[Kid's Books]
Image of This is London
by Miroslav Sasek
Universe

Image of We All Went on Safari (Travel the World)
by Laurie Krebs
Barefoot Books

Dinah Paul
Owner, A Likely Story Children's Bookstore

[Baby]

Image of Little Butterfly: Finger Puppet Book (Finger Puppet Brd Bks)
by Chronicle Books, ImageBooks Staff
Chronicle Books

Image of Beach Babies Wear Shades (An Urban Babies Wear Black Book)
by Michelle Sinclair Colman
Tricycle Press

Image of Can You? Bark Like a Dog (Copy Me Board Books)
by Price Stern Sloan
Price Stern Sloan

Image of My First Taggies Book: Hey Diddle Diddle
by Geo Ham, Will Grace
Cartwheel Books

[Ages 3-6]
Image of Stick
by Steve Breen
Dial


Image of Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors
by Petr Horacek
Candlewick

Image of Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy
by Jane O'Connor
HarperCollins

Image of Hooray for Fish!
by Lucy Cousins
Candlewick

[Ages 8-10]
Image of The Talented Clementine
by Sara Pennypacker
Hyperion Book CH

Image of Game 1: #1 in The Barnstormers: Tales of the Travelin' Nine Series
by Loren Long, Phil Bildner
Simon & Schuster Audio

Image of Carnival at Candlelight (Magic Tree House #33)
by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca
Random House Books for Young Readers


Image of Main Street #1: Welcome to Camden Falls
by Ann M Martin, Ann M. Martin
Scholastic Paperbacks

Image of Mercy Watson Fights Crime
by Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick

[Ages 10 and up]




Image of The Sight (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 1)
by Erin Hunter
HarperCollins

Image of The Runaway Princess
by Kate Coombs
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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Listener Recommendations

Image of Sacred Games: A Novel
by Vikram Chandra
Harper

Image of The Alchemist  - Gift Edition
by Paulo Coelho
HarperOne

Image of A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries)
by Charles Finch
Minotaur Books

Image of Delilah's Revenge (There is Nothing More Dangerous for a Man than a WOMAN with a Plan)
by S. James Guitard
Literally Speaking Publishing House

Image of Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel
by Joe Hill
William Morrow

Image of The Leopard
by Guiseppe di Lampedusa
Harvill Press

Image of Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
by Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher
Doubleday

Image of Man Gone Down
by Michael Thomas
Black Cat

Image of The Dangerous Book for Boys
by Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden
William Morrow

Image of Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking
by David Driskell, Adrienne L. Childs
Pomegranate Communications

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