Recently my local newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, published a lovely round-up of summer books for us. Here’s a look at their picks for the best offerings in the following genres:
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Mystery:
- Infamous by Ace Atkins
- The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron
- Cut, Paste, Kill: A Lomax & Biggs Mysteryby Marshall Karp
- Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Nonfiction:
- The Lost Cycliste: The Epic Tale of an American Adverturer and his Mysterious Disappearance by David V. Herlihy
- The Girls of Murder of City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired ‘Chicago’ by Douglas Perry
- The Only Game in Town: Sportswriters from the New Yorker by David Remnick
- The Great Silence: Britain From the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson
- The Black Nile: One Man’s Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World’s Longest River by Dan Morrison
- The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Murder and Madness in Saratoga’s Gilded Age by Geoffrey O’Brien
- Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor
- Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World’s Fair on the Brink of War by James Mauro
- Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic by David Howard
- The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
Paperback:
- Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
- Fifty Miles From Tomorrow by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
- The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
- Nose Down, Eyes Up by Merrill Markoe
- Tinkers by Paul Harding
- The Turtle Catcher by Nicole Helget
- Thief by Maureen Gibbon
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Fiction:
- Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
- The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scotch
- The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
- Leaving Rock Harbor by Rebecca Chace
- Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe
- Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncy
- Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell
- Walks With Men by Ann Beattie
- The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
