Summer Reading 2014

Books Recommended at the October 20, 2014 Meeting

(In alphabetical order by author's last name~~Bold face titles were selected for 2014-2015 discussions)

Reza Aslan Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Melanie Benjamin The Aviator's Wife

David Bezmozgis The Betrayers

Jenna Blum Those Who Save Us

Daniel James Brown *The Boys in the Boat

Carla Buckley The Things That Keep Us Here

Veronica Buckley Christina, Queen of Sweden

Trevor Corson The Secret Life of Lobsters

Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy

Anthony Doerr *All the Light We Cannot See

Karen Joy Fowler We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Robert Galbraith The Silkworm

Susan Jane Gilman The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

A. S. A. Harrison The Silent Wife

Nadia Hashimi The Pearl that Broke Its Shell

Torey L. Hayden One Child

Nancy Horan Under the Wide and Starry Sky

Herman Koch *The Dinner

Sue Monk Kidd The Invention of Wings

Lori Lansens The Girls

John le Carré The Constant Gardener

Ben Macintyre *The Spy Among Friends

Celeste Ng Everything I Never Told You

Maggie O'Farrell Instructions for a Heatwave

Richard Preston The Hot Zone

Phillip B.J. Reid Three Sisters Ponds

Amanda Ripley The Smartest Kids in the World

Marilynne Robinson Lila

Michael Shaara Killer Angels

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Donna Tart The Goldfinch

Cameron Wright *Rent Collector

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