Summer 2006 Reading List
Recommendations for the best reads of the summer from book editors and independent bookstore owners
Dinah Paul
Owner, A Likely Story Children's Bookstore
Picture books/Younger Readers
Lilly's Big Day
(Greenwillow)
John, Paul, George & Ben
by Lane Smith
(Hyperion)
Bear's New Friend
by Karma Wilson
(Margaret K. McElderry)
Olivia Forms a Band
(Atheneum)
Walk On! : A Guide for Babies of All Ages
by Marla Frazee
(Harcourt Children's Books)
This Little Piggy with CD : Lap Songs, Finger Plays, Clapping Games and Pantomime Rhymes
by Adam Stemple
Jane Yolen (Editor)
(Candlewick)
Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD)
(Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
If I Built a Car
(Dutton Juvenile)
Owen & Mzee: The True Story Of A Remarkable Friendship
by Craig Hatkoff
(Scholastic Press)
Older readers
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate Dicamillo
(Candlewick)
Heat
by Mike Lupica
(Philomel)
Gossamer
by Lois Lowry
(Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books)
The Wright 3
by Blue Balliett
(Scholastic Press)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
by Richard Yancey
(Bloomsbury USA Children's Books)
Fly by Night
by Frances Hardinge
(HarperCollins)
Paperbacks
The Star of Kazan
by Eva Ibbotson
(Puffin)
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
(Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Peter and the Starcatchers
by Dave Barry
(Disney Editions)
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review
The Dream Life of Sukhanov
by Olga Grushin
(Putnam Adult)
The Brief History of the Dead : A novel
by Kevin Brockmeier
(Pantheon)
Back to Wando Passo : A Novel
by David Payne
(William Morrow)
Alentejo Blue : Fiction
by Monica Ali
(Scribner)
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
by George R. R. Martin
(Spectra)
Tenderwire
by Claire Kilroy
(Harvest Books)
Winter's Bone : A Novel
by Daniel Woodrell
(Little, Brown)
A Woman in Jerusalem
by A. B. Yehoshua
(Harcourt)
The Brambles
by Eliza Minot
(Knopf)
Carla Cohen
Co-owner, Politics and Prose
Clemente : The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
by David Maraniss
(Simon & Schuster)
Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell
(Harcourt)
How Soccer Explains the World : An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
by Franklin Foer
(Harper Perennial)
The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup
by Matt Weiland
(Harper Perennial)
The Foreign Correspondent : A Novel
by Alan Furst
(Random House)
The Night Gardener
by George Pelecanos
(Little, Brown)
No Good Deeds : A Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries (Hardcover))
by Laura Lippman
(William Morrow)
Blow the House Down : A Novel
by Robert Baer
(Crown)
The One Percent Doctrine
by Ron Suskind
(Simon & Schuster)
American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Vintage)
by Kai Bird
(Vintage)
The Bowl Is Already Broken : A novel
by Mary Kay Zuravleff
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Bridget Warren
Chief of Public Relations & Programming, Prince George's County Memorial Library System
Secret Daughter : A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
by June Cross
(Viking Adult)
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
by Minister Faust
(Del Rey)
A Million Nightingales : A Novel
by Susan Straight
(Pantheon)
Baby Brother's Blues : A Novel
by Pearl Cleage
(One World/Ballantine)
Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
by Stanley Crouch
(Basic Books)
Hokum : An Anthology of African-American Humor
(Bloomsbury USA)
