The Kojo Nnamdi Show

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

Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review

The Blood of Flowers: A Novel

by Anita Amirrezvani

Little, Brown and Company

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

Harper

Finn: A Novel

by Jon Clinch

Random House

The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel

by Stef Penney

Simon & Schuster

Afterwards: A Novel

by Rachel Seiffert

Pantheon

The Post-Birthday World

by Lionel Shriver

Harper

Luncheon of the Boating Party

by Susan Vreeland

Viking Adult

The Sonnet Lover: A Novel

by Carol Goodman

Ballantine Books

Interred with Their Bones

by Jennifer Lee Carrell

Dutton Adult

Candida Mannozzi
Owner, Candida's World of Books

[Travel Writing]

100 Places Every Woman Should Go

by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Travelers' Tales

Bad Lands (Lonely Planet) (Travel Literature)

by Tony Wheeler

Lonely Planet

How to Eat Around the World: Tips and Wisdom

by Richard Sterling

Travelers' Tales

No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice

by Judith Martin

W. W. Norton & Company

Live From Jordan: Letters Home From My Journey Through the Middle East

by Benjamin Orbach

AMACOM

American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China

by Matthew Polly

Gotham

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

by Xinran Xinran

Nan A. Talese

Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World (Aesop Prize (Awards))

by

W. W. Norton

Voices of Time: A Life in Stories

by Eduardo Galeano

Picador

Aya

by Marguerite Abouet

Drawn and Quarterly

This is London

by Miroslav Sasek

Universe

We All Went on Safari (Travel the World)

by Laurie Krebs

Barefoot Books

Dinah Paul
Owner, A Likely Story Children's Bookstore

[Baby]

Little Butterfly: Finger Puppet Book (Finger Puppet Brd Bks)

by Chronicle Books, ImageBooks Staff

Chronicle Books

Beach Babies Wear Shades (An Urban Babies Wear Black Book)

by Michelle Sinclair Colman

Tricycle Press

Can You? Bark Like a Dog (Copy Me Board Books)

by Price Stern Sloan

Price Stern Sloan

My First Taggies Book: Hey Diddle Diddle

by Geo Ham, Will Grace

Cartwheel Books

Stick

by Steve Breen

Dial

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Charlie and Lola)

by Lauren Child

Candlewick

Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors

by Petr Horacek

Candlewick

Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy

by Jane O'Connor

HarperCollins

Hooray for Fish!

by Lucy Cousins

Candlewick

The Talented Clementine

by Sara Pennypacker

Hyperion Book CH

Game 1: #1 in The Barnstormers: Tales of the Travelin' Nine Series

by Loren Long, Phil Bildner

Simon & Schuster Audio

Carnival at Candlelight (Magic Tree House #33)

by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca

Random House Books for Young Readers

India: The Moonstone Fairy (Rainbow Magic: The Jewel Fairies, No. 1)

by Daisy Meadows

Scholastic Paperbacks

Main Street #1: Welcome to Camden Falls

by Ann M Martin, Ann M. Martin

Scholastic Paperbacks

Mercy Watson Fights Crime

by Kate DiCamillo

Candlewick

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

by Rick Riordan

Disney-Hyperion

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2)

by Rick Riordan

Disney-Hyperion

The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3)

by Rick Riordan

Disney-Hyperion

The Sight (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 1)

by Erin Hunter

HarperCollins

The Runaway Princess

by Kate Coombs

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Listener Recommendations

Sacred Games: A Novel

by Vikram Chandra

Harper

The Alchemist - Gift Edition

by Paulo Coelho

HarperOne

A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries)

by Charles Finch

Minotaur Books

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

Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel

by Joe Hill

William Morrow

The Leopard

by Guiseppe di Lampedusa

Harvill Press

Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas

by Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher

Doubleday

Man Gone Down

by Michael Thomas

Black Cat

The Dangerous Book for Boys

by Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden

William Morrow

Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking

by David Driskell, Adrienne L. Childs

Pomegranate Communications

Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History

by Cait Murphy

Smithsonian