National Public Radio Summer Reading List 2009
Independent Booksellers Pick Summer’s Best Reads
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
Laura Rider’s Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
Mirrors by Eduardo Galeano
Oh! A Mystery of Mono No Aware by Todd Shimoda
The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
Celebrating Summer by Opening the Books
The Increment by David Ignatius
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
The Servant’s Quarters by Lynn Freed
Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Campbell McGrath
Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove
Best Fiction for Every Kind of Summer Day
Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell
The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry **STAFF REVIEW**
Woodsburner by John Pipkin
The Five Best Novels of the Summer
Castle by J. Robert Lennon
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Follow Me by Joanna Scott
The Good Parents by Joan London
The Scenic Route by Binnie Kirshenbaum
For Summer Sleuths: Best Mystery, Crime Novels
Awakening by S.J. Bolton
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers edited by Otto Penzler
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan
The Way Home by George Pelecanos
