Summer brings with it many pleasures, and if you’re lucky one of those is the time to dig into a great book. During this hour on Talk of Iowa, Jan Weismiller and Paul Ingram of Prairie Lights Book Store in Iowa City and Annie Leonard of The Next Chapter in Knoxville join host Charity Nebbe.
FICTION:
My Name is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner
Norwegian by Night by Derek E. Miller
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
Last Policeman / Countdown City / World of Trouble (series) by Ben H. Winters
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead / Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway (series) by Sara Gran
Something Red / The Wicked (series) by Douglas Nicholas
(Historical Fiction / Fantasy)
I Shall be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
(Historical Fiction / Civil War)
Runner by Patrick Lee
(Thriller / Sci-Fi)
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens who Made England by Dan Jones
(History / Medieval)
Casebook by Mona Simpson
Thunderstruck by Elizabeth McCracken
Off Course by Michele Huneven
Bark by Lorrie Moore
Family Feeling by Jean Ross Justice
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
The Dismal Science by Peter Mountford
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen
The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert
NONFICTION:
Eighty Days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on research by Bruce Joshua Mill (non-fiction)
During the Reign: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip by Kevin Brockmeier
Slices of Life by Leah Eskin
e.e. cummings: a life by Susan Cheever
Updike by Adam Begley
Living with a Wild God by Barbara Ehrenreich
MEMOIR:
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
The Girl who Sang to the Buffalo by Kent Nerburn