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In case you haven’t heard NPR’s summer picks yet — prepared to be overwhelemed!  I haven’t read any yet, but I’ve starred (*) the ones that seem to be getting a lot of positive press.

Summer Book Recommendations 2008
NPR.org, May 23, 2008

Recommended Books

Recommended by booksellers to Susan Stamberg (Booksellers’ Selections for Summer Afternoons)

America America by Ethan Canin  **
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Legal Limit by Martin Clark
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name Vendela Vida  **
My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekov to Munro edited by Jeffrey Eugenides,
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb, William Morrow
The Prince of FrogTown by Rick Bragg
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Story of a Marriage Andrew Sean Greer **
Today: 101 Ghazals by Suzanne Gardinier
Trauma by Patrick McGrath
Wrack & Ruin by Don Lee
What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn

Recommended fiction by Maureen Corrigan
(Fiction Picks for Your Mental Getaway)

Exiles by Ron Hansen
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread by Don Robertson
Lady of the Snakes by Rachel Pastan
The People on Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
The Sister by Poppy Adams Knopf

Recommended nonfiction by Maureen Corrigan
(Better than Sliced Bread: Summer’s Best Nonfiction)

The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
Inventing Niagra by Ginger Strand
Minders of Make-Believe by Leonard S. Marcus

Recommended by Alan Cheuse
(Summer Books to Feed Your Literary Addiction)

America America by Ethan Canin
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
The Boat by Nam Le Knopf  **
Havanas in Camelot by William Styron
The Invention Of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Language for a New Century edited by Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar and Nathalie Handal
Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai’i by Susanna Moore
The Messiah by Marek Halter
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
A Summer of Hummingbirds by Christopher Benfey
Walking the Wrack Line by Barbara Hurd

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