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2007 Summer

Reading Lists

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

    Buy


  • The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    By Michael Chabon

    Harper/Collins

    Buy

  • Finn: A Novel

    By Jon Clinch

    Random House

    Buy


  • The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel

    By Stef Penney

    Simon & Schuster

    Buy

  • Afterwards: A Novel

    By Rachel Seiffert

    Pantheon

    Buy


  • The Post-Birthday World

    By Lionel Shriver

    Harper

    Buy


  • Luncheon of the Boating Party

    By Susan Vreeland

    Viking Adult

    Buy


  • The Sonnet Lover: A Novel

    By Carol Goodman

    Ballantine Books

    Buy


  • Interred with Their Bones

    By Jennifer Lee Carrell

    Dutton Adult

    Buy

    • Candida Mannozzi
    Owner, Candida’s World of Books

    Travel Writing

  • 100 Places Every Woman Should Go

    By Stephanie Elizondo Griest

    Travelers' Tales

    Buy


  • Bad Lands (Lonely Planet) (Travel Literature)

    By Tony Wheeler

    Lonely Planet

    Buy


  • How to Eat Around the World: Tips and Wisdom

    By Richard Sterling

    Travelers' Tales

    Buy


  • No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice

    By Judith Martin

    W. W. Norton & Company

    Buy


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

    By Benjamin Orbach

    AMACOM

    Buy


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

    By Matthew Polly

    Gotham

    Buy


  • Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

    By Xinran Xinran

    Nan A. Talese

    Buy

    • Fiction

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

    W. W. Norton

    Buy


  • Voices of Time

    By Eduardo Galeano

    Picador

    Buy


  • Aya

    By Marguerite Abouet

    Drawn and Quarterly

    Buy

    • Kid’s Books

  • This is London

    By Miroslav Sasek

    Universe

    Buy


  • We All Went on Safari (Travel the World)

    By Laurie Krebs

    Barefoot Books

    Buy

    • Dinah Paul
    Owner, A Likely Story Children’s Bookstore

    Baby

  • Little Butterfly: Finger Puppet Book: (Finger Puppet Book for Toddlers and Babies, Baby Books for First Year, Animal Finger Puppets) (Little Finger Puppet Board Books)

    By Chronicle Books and ImageBooks

    Chronicle Books

    Buy


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

    By Michelle Sinclair Colman

    Tricycle Press

    Buy


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

    By Price Stern Sloan

    Price Stern Sloan

    Buy


  • My First Taggies Book: Hey Diddle Diddle

    By Geo Ham and Will Grace

    Cartwheel Books

    Buy

    • Ages 3-6

  • Stick

    By Steve Breen

    Dial

    Buy


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

    By Lauren Child

    Candlewick

    Buy


  • Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors

    By Petr Horacek

    Candlewick

    Buy


  • Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy

    By Jane O'Connor

    HarperCollins

    Buy

  • Hooray for Fish!

    By Lucy Cousins

    Candlewick

    Buy

    • Ages 8-10

  • The Talented Clementine (A Clementine Book)

    By Sara Pennypacker

    Hyperion Books for Children

    Buy


  • Game 1: Three Kids, a Mystery, and a Magic Baseball (Barnstormers)

    By Loren Long and Phil Bildner

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Buy


  • Carnival at Candlelight (Magic Tree House #33)

    By Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca

    Random House Books for Young Readers

    Buy


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

    By Daisy Meadows

    Scholastic Paperbacks

    Buy


  • Main Street #1: Welcome to Camden Falls

    By Ann M Martin and Ann M. Martin

    Scholastic Paperbacks

    Buy


  • Mercy Watson Fights Crime

    By Kate DiCamillo

    Candlewick

    Buy

    • Ages 10 and up

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

    By Rick Riordan

    Disney-Hyperion

    Buy


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

    By Rick Riordan

    Disney-Hyperion

    Buy


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

    By Rick Riordan

    Hyperion Books

    Buy


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

    By Erin Hunter

    HarperCollins

    Buy


  • The Runaway Princess

    By Kate Coombs

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

    Buy


  • The Traitors' Gate (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))

    By Avi

    Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books

    Buy

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  • Sacred Games

    By Vikram Chandra

    Harper Collins

    Buy


  • The Alchemist - Gift Edition

    By Paulo Coelho

    HarperOne

    Buy

  • A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries)

    By Charles Finch

    Minotaur Books

    Buy


  • 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

    Buy


  • Heart-Shaped Box

    By Joe Hill

    William Morrow

    Buy


  • The Leopard

    By Guiseppe di Lampedusa

    Harvill Press

    Buy


  • Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas

    By Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher

    Doubleday

    Buy


  • Man Gone Down

    By Michael Thomas

    Black Cat

    Buy


  • The Dangerous Book for Boys

    By Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden

    HarperCollins

    Buy


  • Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell

    By Adrienne L. Childs

    Pomegranate

    Buy

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

    By Cait Murphy

    Smithsonian

    Buy

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