Join us in our reading revolution! There’s read-aloud time at our house, and then there’s quiet reading time, and during that time, mom has to read too! So in an effort to spend my quiet reading minutes wisely, I’ve solicited suggestions from those I love best. Here are the results:
Recommended Summer Reading, 2010
The Goose Girl- Shannon Hale
Outliers- Gladwell
The Mortal Instrument series- Cassandra Claire
In the Woods- Tana French
Story of a Girl
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Lemon Tree
Hunger Games series
Living Reed- Pearl S. Buck
Atlas Shrugged
Prayer of Jabez- Bruce Wilkinson
Gift from the Sea- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Same Kind of Different as Me - by Ron Hall
Count of Monte Cristo - by Alexandre Dumus
Voices - Essays from survivors of Hiroshima
Year of Wonder - by Jeraldean Brooks
March - by Jersldean Brooks - the story before Little Women
Sarah's Key - by Tatiana D. Rosnay
Book Thief - by Markus Zusak
Shadow of the Wind - by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Elegance of the Hedgehog - by Muriel Babery
Cry the Beloved Country - by Alan Paton - about Apartheid
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - by Lisa See
What Happy People Know - Self Help - by Dan Baker, Ph.D.
Pigs in Heaven -by Barbara Kingsolver
Wild Swan - by Jung Chang
Joy Luck Club - by Amy Tan
The Help - by Kathryn Stockett
Poisonwood Bible - by Barbara Kingsolver
Left to Tell - by immaculee Ilibagiza - about the Rawandan holocaust
Ahab’s Wife, and Old Man and the Sea- Sena Jeter Naslund
Happy Summer Reading!!
4 comments:
Love you blog and book ideas. Glad I found it--I'll have to add it to the ones I'm following. Have a great day! -Cherlelynn
That's quite the list. Story of a Girl is by Sara Zarr, just so you know. By what you REALLY need to read is Keturah and Lord Death, by Martine Leavitt.
You need to move The Help to the top of your list. I loved it. Have to sample some of those on my kindle. Read quite a few of them already. Forgot about them. Will add them to my goodreads shelves. Are you on Goodreads.com...you can post to your blog & facebook. I know...one more thing to do :)
do you use a kindle? this is a good list! i recently finished Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It was great on audio book because I loved the British accents. I loved that book. I'll remember Wild Swans forever- it was a heavy read. Gift from the Sea is a great summertime classic read. Have fun!
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