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05-28-2013, 09:18 PM
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Great Summer Books
Schools almost out and I'm ready to start my summer reading. Anyone have any great suggestions for books you can't put down? Someone told me that The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls got good reviews.
Some of my past summer reading favorites...
Cane River
Poisonwood Bible
The Good Earth
Cry the Beloved Country
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05-28-2013, 09:32 PM
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The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
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05-28-2013, 09:51 PM
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Midnight in Peking
The Girls of Atomic City
Both are historical non-fiction.
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05-29-2013, 04:09 PM
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05-29-2013, 04:34 PM
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I just finished Dan Brown's latest, Inferno. I liked his other ones better but this was still pretty good!
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05-29-2013, 04:51 PM
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The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
The Slap- Christos Tsiolkas
Faithful Place - Tana French
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles - Dominick Dunne - one of my favorites
Blood and Orchids - Norman Katkov - May be hard to find, but a great story.
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05-29-2013, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by tea&krumpets
I just finished Dan Brown's latest, Inferno. I liked his other ones better but this was still pretty good!
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Just read it, loved it!
The sequel to The Devil Wears Prada comes out the 4th of June, definitely reading that
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05-29-2013, 06:03 PM
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The Two Mrs. Grenvilles - Dominick Dunne - one of my favorites
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Mine, too!
I recommend:
"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
"New Miss India" by Bharati Mukherjee
"The Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve
"My Enemy's Cradle" by Sara Young
"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
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05-30-2013, 12:22 PM
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I just finished Dan Brown's latest, Inferno. I liked his other ones better but this was still pretty good!
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I love all of Dan Brown's books; I can't wait to read Inferno. Killarney Rose, I love all of Bharati Mukherjee's books, too. They are both great authors, but very different in content and style.
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05-30-2013, 04:09 PM
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The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
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Written in My Own Heart's Blood (the next in the series) is coming out in December...I so can't wait....
Caution for those picking this up....these books are thick and dense....but a great story!
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05-30-2013, 05:24 PM
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Thanks everyone--now I have my summer reading list!
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05-30-2013, 06:24 PM
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I'm working on The Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series, and it's probably going to take me all summer! I'm about a quarter if the way through Clash of Kings, and it's thick, heavy (but good!) reading.
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05-30-2013, 07:11 PM
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I love all of Dan Brown's books; I can't wait to read Inferno. Killarney Rose, I love all of Bharati Mukherjee's books, too. They are both great authors, but very different in content and style.
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Speaking of Indian authors, I love books by Anjali Banerjee and Chitra Banerjee Divarakuni. And from the Americans--Karen White's Tradd Street series!
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05-31-2013, 09:40 AM
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I just finished The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. Was compared to Hunger Games and I liked it. People just published their summer picks in the most recent issue. There were a couple on there that looked good.
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05-31-2013, 10:37 AM
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The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
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Yes!
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shameless self promotion... 
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The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
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I liked this, too.
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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose
"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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A really unique and imaginative book...loved it!
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Originally Posted by ms_gwyn
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (the next in the series) is coming out in December...I so can't wait....
Caution for those picking this up....these books are thick and dense....but a great story!
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I'm so glad I didn't start reading the Outlander series until last year...so I didn't have to wait for any in the interim years. If you haven't read The Scottish Prisoner, she has a "preview" of Written in My Own Heart's Blood at the end. It graciously addresses some of the cliffhangers...I was especially interested in seeing what happened to Jemmy in the tunnel.
This is my top suggestion from the past couple years:
The All Souls Trilogy --
A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness (loved, loved, loved this!!!)
A Shadow of Night
I thought the 3rd one would be coming out this summer, but she's still working on it. Professors.  She needs to give up her day job, like Diana Gabaldon did.
I love being a professor, but these two women have made my dream transition. Being a best-selling author would be my ultimate dream job.
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