home  select a topic arts & literature education & learning history & culture home & how-to kids & family local focus news & public affairs science & nature highlights forum reading lists summer 2007 winter 2006 spring 2006 winter 2005 summer 2005 spring 2005 holidays 2004 summer 2004 holidays 2003 summer 2003 holidays 2002 pacific time music home videos & DVDs   about KQED   support KQED   the guide online   email newsletters   DTV transition   KQED store   help & FAQ   contact info Forum Reading Lists Forum Summer 2005 Reading List On July 11, 2005, Forum listeners shared their ideas for great Summer reading. If you are interested in buying one of these books, you can support KQED by clicking on the title below, which will take you to that book on Amazon.com. A portion of the profit will go to KQED. Things Fall Apart -- Chinua Achebe Graceland -- Chris Abani The Way of the Dreamcatcher -- Steve T. Georgieu Seersucker Whipsaw -- Ross Thomas Liberating Paris -- Linda Bloodworth Thomason Walking with Her Daughter -- Jessica Barksdale Inclan The Kiterunner -- Khaled Hosseini The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan -- Ben Macintyre Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory -- Michael C. Carroll The Art of the Obvious -- Bruno Bettelheim Middlesex -- Jeffrey Eugenides The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam -- Barbara Tuchman The Image -- Daniel Boorstin The Brothers K -- David James Duncan Pictures of Hollis Woods -- Patricia Reilly Giff My Jim -- Nancy Rawles Frindle -- Andrew Clements Right to an Answer -- Anthony Burgess The Tequila Worm -- Viola Canales Freakonomics -- Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Among the Missing -- Dan Chaon Collapse -- Jared Diamond The World is Flat -- Thomas Friedman Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie -- Barbara Goldsmith Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil -- Michael C. Ruppert The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions -- David Ray Griffin The Painted Alphabet -- Diana Darling Flyboys: A True Story of Courage -- James Bradley Eats, Shoots & Leaves -- Lynne Truss Mountains Beyond Mountains -- Tracy Kidder The Wonder Spot -- Melissa Bank Assembling California -- John McPhee Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell Evidence of Things Unseen -- Marianne Wiggins Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) -- Neal Stephenson Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood -- Marjane Satrapi Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return -- Marjane Satrapi Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norell -- Susanna Clarke The Wheel on the School -- Meindert DeJong Charlotte's Web (audiobook) -- E.B. White All the President's Men -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Border of Lilies and Maples -- Joseph Barry Gurdin Skeleton Man -- Tony Hillerman Prodigal Summer -- Barbara Kingsolver God Without Religion: Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths -- Sankara Saranam His Dark Materials Trilogy -- Philip Pullman War Orphan in San Francisco -- Phyllis Helene Mattson Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath -- Sigrid Undset Katherine -- Anya Seton Staying On -- Paul Scott A Man for All Seasons -- Robert Bolt The Zenith Angle -- Bruce Sterling The Blue Nile -- Alan Moorhead The White Nile -- Alan Moorhead Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World -- Haruki Murakami Mythology -- Thomas Bulfinch Ghost Wars -- Steve Coll Staggerford -- Jon Hassler Jim the Boy -- Tony Earley Unequal Protection -- Thom Hartman The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up -- Charles Nelson Coming Up for Air -- George Orwell When the Mississippi Ran Backwards -- Jay Feldman Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick -- Autumn Stevens The Historian -- Elizabeth Kostova Buddha Da -- Anne Donovan The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- Stephen Chbosky Dragula -- Ben Sheldon To Say Nothing of the Dog -- Connie Willis The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- Edward Gibbon The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon Oh the Glory of It All -- Sean Wilsey Epitaph for a Peach -- David Mas Masumoto Marked in Your Flesh -- Leonard Glick The Queen's Fool -- Philippa Gregory Saturday -- Ian McEwan The Man Who Listens to Horses -- Monty Roberts Browse Forum book lists... Winter 2007 Summer 2007 Winter 2006 Spring 2006 Winter 2005 Spring 2005 Holidays 2004 Summer 2004 Holidays 2003 Summer 2003 Holidays 2002 back to top site map | terms of service | privacy policy Copyright © 1994-2008 KQED. All Rights Reserved.		SPONSORED BY: