
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”
—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird |
Historical Fiction
The Chateau on Sunset by Natasha Lester
The Boleyn Secret A Novel by Alison Weir
The Moonshine Women by Michelle Collins Anderson
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Sci Fi
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Travel
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
My Twenty-five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams
Humor
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Unabrow: Misadventures of a Late Bloomer by Una LaMarche
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty by Diane Keaton
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson |