What's on Your Summer Reading List?

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

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