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Mon, May 31, 2010 -- 10:00 AM

What's on Your Summer Reading List?


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We open the phone lines to get listeners' choices for a good summer read. What are your picks? Call us, or leave your recommendation in the comments section below.

Below is a list of the books mentioned on the show:

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades -- Robert Spencer
  • Super Sad True Love Story -- Gary Shteyngart
  • Island Beneath The Sea -- Isabel Allende
  • Solar -- Ian Mcewan
  • When I Stop Talking You'll Know I'm Dead -- Jerry Weintraub
  • The Given Day -- Dennis Lehane
  • Generation of Vipers -- Philip Wylie
  • Lamb -- Christopher Moore
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad -- Jennifer Egan
  • Hitch-22 -- Christopher Hitchens
  • Matterhorn -- Karl Marlantes
  • The Things They Carried -- Tim O'Brien
  • The Quiet American -- Graham Greene
  • The Lost City of Z -- David Graham
  • The Great Controversy -- Ellen White
  • Alexander Hamilton -- Ron Chernow
  • Let the Great World Spin -- Colum McCann
  • Collapse -- Jared Diamond
  • Watermark -- Vanitha Sankaran
  • The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear -- Douglas Bevington
  • By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives -- Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson
  • In Cheap We Trust -- Lauren Weber
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson
  • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex -- Mary Roach
  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void -- Mary Roach
  • The Help -- Kathryn Stockett
  • The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water -- Marc Reisner
  • Guide To California Planning -- William Fulton
  • Have a Little Faith -- Mitch Albom
  • Faucet of Tears -- Helen Chernisky
  • Presumed Innocent -- Scott Turow
  • Mardi -- Herman Melville
  • Too Big to Fail -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • On the Brink -- Henry Paulson
  • Big Short -- Michael Lewis
  • Ill Fares the Land -- Tony Judt
  • Once An Eagle -- Anton Myer
  • An American Type -- Henry Roth
  • I Curse the River of Time -- Per Petterson
  • Eaarth -- Bill McKibben
  • Ultimate Sacrifice -- Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann
  • River of Doubt -- Candice Millard
  • The Blue Orchard -- Jackson Taylor
  • The Marriage-Go-Round -- Andrew Cherlin
  • The Mapping of Love and Death -- Maisie Dobbs
  • Eating Animals -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Spirit Level -- Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
  • Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter -- Tom Bissell
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Oakhurst Irregulars -- Berton D. Garey

  • If you are interested in buying one of these books, you can support KQED by clicking on the title, which will take you to that book on Amazon.com. A portion of the profit will go to KQED.

    These titles are also available from your local independent bookseller. You can find the one nearest you at BookSense.com.

    Host: Michael Krasny

    Guests:

    • Oscar Villalon, former book editor for The San Francisco Chronicle

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