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Summer Books

Dee Perry welcomes a trio of book lovers to share what they're reading for the summer.  Joining Dee, are Bob Ethington from the Akron Summit County Public Library, Suzanne DeGaetano from Mac's Backs-Booksin Cleveland Heights and Wendy Bartlett from Cuyahoga County Public Library.

 

Books Mentioned on Today's Show

H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman

Throw Like a Woman by Susan Petrone

The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story by Mac Mclelland

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

It's a Long Story-My Lifeby Willie Nelson

Deal by Bill Kreutzmann

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Where the River Burned by David and Richard Stradling

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time essays by James Baldwin

The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays

In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge

 

Wendy's Summer Picks

Romantic Outlaws: the Extraodinary Lives of Mary Woolstonecraft and Her Daughter, Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

Dead Wake: The Sinking of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

The Turner House by Angela Fournoy

The Wolf Borderby Sarah Hall

Vanishing Games by Roger Hobbs

Armada by Ernest Cline

The Fatal Flame by Lindsay Faye

The Gracekeepers by Kristy Logan

The Truth According to US by Annie Barrows

The House of Hawthorne by Erica Robuck

 

Bob's Summer Picks

My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Glassgow Trilogy by Malcolm Mackay

Splitting an Order by Ted Kooser

The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

The Travis McGee Seriesby John MacDonald

 

Suzanne's Summer Picks

Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Moonpenny Island by Tricia Springstubb

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Ethington- Akron Summit County Library

Suzanne DeGaetano- Mac's Backs-Books

Wendy Bartlett- Cuyahoga County Public Library

Dave DeOreo is coordinating producer for Ideastream Public Media’s arts and culture team.