2008 Summer
This year's recommendations for the best summer reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review
Author: Mark Sarvas
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages
Author: Sasa Stanisic
Publisher: Grove Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages
Author: Ma Jian
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 592 pages
Author: Rivka Galchen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages
Author: Uwem Akpan
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages
Author: Zoe Ferraris
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 305 pages
Author: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher: Harper (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 400 pages
Author: Jiang Rong
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 544 pages
Author: Steven Galloway
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Random House (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages
Traci Giganti
Co-owner of Book Crossing in Brunswick, MD
Picture Book
Author: Kevin Sherry
Publisher: Dial (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages
Ages 6-9
Author: Erica Silverman
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 44 pages
Ages 7-10
Author: Phil Bildner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 144 pages
Ages 10 and older
Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic Press (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 544 pages
Young Adults
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 544 pages
Carla Cohen
Co-owner of Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
Fiction Hardcover
Author: Deborah Weisgall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages
Author: David Wroblewski
Publisher: Ecco (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 576 pages
Fiction Paperback
Author: Per Petterson
Publisher: Picador (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Author: Nancy Horan
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 400 pages
Author: Min Jin Lee
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 592 pages
Author: Mohsin Hamid
Publisher: Harvest Books (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 208 pages
Nonfiction
Author: Peter Godwin
Publisher: Back Bay Books (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 341 pages
Author: Lynne Olson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages
Audiobooks
Author: Junot Díaz
Publisher: Penguin Audio (2007)
Binding: Audio CD, pages
Author: Alexander M. Smith
Publisher: Recorded Books (2008)
Binding: Audio CD, pages
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Random House Audio (2005)
Binding: Audio CD, pages
Todd Stewart
Co-owner of Vertigo Books in College Park, MD
Fiction Hardcover
Author: Hakan Nesser
Publisher: Pantheon (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages
Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages
Author: Mohammed Hanif
Publisher: Knopf (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages
Author: James Howard Kunstler
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages
Paperback Fiction
Author: Natsuo Kirino
Publisher: Vintage (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 544 pages
Author: Der Nister
Publisher: NYRB Classics (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 704 pages
Children's Fiction
Author: Shana Burg
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages
Author: Kathi Appelt
Publisher: Atheneum (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages
Search
Find Past Shows
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
