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This year's recommendations for the best summer reading from the Library Journal's Barbara Hoffert , NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse , Eileen McGervey, owner of One More Page Books in Arlington, VA., freelance writer, editor and consultant Angela Dodson, and writer Dolen Perkins-Valdez.

Barbara Hoffert, Editor of the Book Review at Library Journal

The Tragedy of Arthur: A Novel

by Arthur Phillips

Random House

The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

by Tea Obreht

Random House

The Great Night: A Novel

by Chris Adrian

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Caleb's Crossing: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Viking Adult

Lime Creek: Fiction

by Joe Henry

Random House

The Last Werewolf

by Glen Duncan

Knopf

The Moment: A Novel

by Douglas Kennedy

Atria Books

Turn of Mind

by Alice LaPlante

Atlantic Monthly Press

The Family Fang: A Novel

by Kevin Wilson

Ecco

Ten Thousand Saints: A Novel

by Eleanor Henderson

Ecco

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared

by Alice Ozma

Grand Central Publishing

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

by Alexandra Fuller

Penguin Press HC, The

Alan Cheuse, Book Reviewer, All Things Considered

The Astral: A Novel

by Kate Christensen

Doubleday

Miss New India

by Bharati Mukherjee

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Three Stages of Amazement: A Novel

by Carol Edgarian

Scribner

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

Harper

You Think That's Bad: Stories

by Jim Shepard

Knopf

Tabloid City: A Novel

by Pete Hamill

Little, Brown and Company

Randy Lopez Goes Home: A Novel (Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas Series)

by Rudolfo Anaya

Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)

Leviathans of Jupiter

by Ben Bova

Tor Books

Millennium People

by J. G. Ballard

W. W. Norton & Company

Lightning: A Novel

by Jean Echenoz

New Press, The

Eileen McGervey, owner, One More Page Books, Arlington, VA.

Non-fiction

Chocolate Chocolate: The True Story of Two Sisters, Tons of Treats, and the Little Shop That Could

by Frances Park, Ginger Park

Thomas Dunne Books

Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler

by Jessica Speart

William Morrow

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

by David McCullough

Simon & Schuster

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

by Gabrielle Hamilton

Random House

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson

Crown

Fiction

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

Anchor

The Last Werewolf

by Glen Duncan

Knopf

Caleb's Crossing: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Viking Adult

The Snowman (Harry Hole, Book 7)

by Jo Nesbø

Knopf Publishing Group

The Preacher (Patrik Hedstrom, Book 2)

by Camilla Läckberg

Pegasus

The Weird Sisters

by Eleanor Brown

Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam

State of Wonder

by Ann Patchett

Harper

Humor

If You Loved Me You'd Think This Was Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About You

by Nick Galifianakis

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Shapes and Colors: A Cul de Sac Collection

by Richard Thompson

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Angela Dodson, freelance writer, editor and consultant

Non-fiction

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable

Viking Adult

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

Random House

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

Broadway

Working While Black: The Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace

by Michelle T. Johnson

Chicago Review Press

1861: The Civil War Awakening

by Adam Goodheart

Knopf

Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876

by Ronald Butchart

The University of North Carolina Press

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

by Karen L. Cox

The University of North Carolina Press

A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life

by Deval Patrick

Broadway

Transparent

by Don Lemon

Farrah Gray Fndtn Pr

86400: Manage Your Purpose to Make Every Second of Each Day Count

by Lavaille Lavette

FaithWords

Fiction

Just Wanna Testify: A Novel

by Pearl Cleage

One World/Ballantine

Getting to Happy

by Terry McMillan

NAL Trade

Midnight and the Meaning of Love

by Sister Souljah

Atria Books

Money Can't Buy Love

by Connie Briscoe

Grand Central Publishing

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage

by Ellis Cose

Ecco

Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

by Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy

Random House

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable

Viking Adult

Caleb's Crossing: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Viking Adult

Lyrics Alley: A Novel

by Leila Aboulela

Grove Press

Pym: A Novel

by Mat Johnson

Spiegel & Grau