Summer 2008 Reading List
This year's recommendations for the best summer reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review
The Boat
by Nam Le
Harry, Revised
by Mark Sarvas
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
by Sasa Stanisic
Beijing Coma
by Ma Jian
Atmospheric Disturbances
by Rivka Galchen
Say You're One of Them
by Uwem Akpan
Finding Nouf
by Zoë Ferraris
The Condition
by Jennifer Haigh
Wolf Totem
by Jiang Rong
The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
The Enchantress of Florence
by Salman Rushdie
Traci Giganti
Co-owner of Book Crossing in Brunswick, MD
Picture Book
I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean!
by Kevin Sherry
Ages 6-9
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Rain or Shine
by Erica Silverman
Ages 7-10
Game 1 (Barnstormers)
by Phil Bildner
Ages 10 and older
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
Young Adults
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
by Stephenie Meyer
Carla Cohen
Co-owner of Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.
Fiction Hardcover
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Netherland
by Joseph O'Neill
The World Before Her
by Deborah Weisgall
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
Fiction Paperback
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
Free Food for Millionaires
by Min Jin Lee
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
Nonfiction
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
by Peter Godwin
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
by Lynne Olson
Audiobooks
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
The Miracle at Speedy Motors
by Alexander M. Smith
Todd Stewart
Co-owner of Vertigo Books in College Park, MD
Fiction Hardcover
Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
by Hakan Nesser
Breath
by Tim Winton
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
by Mohammed Hanif
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
Paperback Fiction
The Opposite House
by Helen Oyeyemi
Grotesque
by Natsuo Kirino
The Family Mashber
by Der Nister
Children's Fiction
A Thousand Never Evers
by Shana Burg
The Underneath
by Kathi Appelt
Un Lun Dun
by China Mieville
