Hot Reads Booklists

Hot Summer Reads 2010
Hot Winter Reads 2009-2010
Hot Summer Reads 2009

Hot Summer Reads 2010

Juli's Late Summer Reads

Fiction

Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross

Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst

Father of the Rain by Lily King

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

Juliet by Anne Fortier

Blood Harvest by S. J. Bolton

Ape House by Sara Gruen

Nonfiction

Lit: a Memoir by Mary Karr

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick

Juli's Early Summer Reads 2010

Fiction

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Wench by Dolen Perkins Valdez

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin

A Black Tie Affair by Sherrill Bodine

Mystery

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

61 Hours by Lee Child

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

Caught by Harlan Coben

Nonfiction

Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman

The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Age of Wonder : How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence by Gail Sheehy

Hot Winter Reads 2009-2010

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

A Separate Country by Robert Hicks

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo

Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Mercury in Retrograde by Paula Froelich

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Top Producer by Norb Vonnegut

Mystery

Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly

The Memory Collector by Meg Gardiner

Doubleback by Libby Fischer Hellmann

The Hidden Man by David Ellis

Nonfiction

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D.

Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven B. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder

Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis MD. Ph.D. and James H. Fowler Ph. D.

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta

Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods by Shel Israel

Hot Summer Reads 2009

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Talk of the Town by Sherrill Bodine

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar

The Song is You by Arthur Phillips

What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

Scarecrow by Michael Connelly

Stone's Fall by Iain Pears

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman

Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl

The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow

Jane's Summer Reads

Appassionata by Eva Hoffman

April & Oliver by Tess Callahan

Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton

The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman

Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

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