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Summer Books

Dee Perry welcomes back a trio of book lovers to share what they've read this summer. Joining Dee, are Bob Ethington from the Akron Summit County Public Library, Suzanne DeGaetano from Mac's Backs-Booksin Cleveland Heights and Wendy Bartlett from Cuyahoga County Public Library.

Books Mentioned on Today's Show

Go, Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows

Splitting an Order by Ted Kooser

Moonpenny Island by Tricia Springstubb

Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

The Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen

Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb

Eli Gottlieb will be appearing at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's Beachwood Branch on Sept 1st.

 

The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavitz

My Struggle series by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Drowned City by Don Brown

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Stoner by John Williams

Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas

Got Words? by Vince Robinson

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud

The Travis McGee Series by John MacDonald

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Time Wise

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

 

Wendy's Summer Books

Dead Wake: The Sinking of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar

Vanishing Games by Roger Hobbs

Armada by Ernest Cline

The Fatal Flame by Lindsay Faye

 

Bob's Summer Books

Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont

The Glasgow Trilogy by Malcolm Mackay

The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

 

Suzanne's Summer Book

Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell

 

Bob Ethington- Akron Summit County Library

Suzanne DeGaetano- Mac's Backs-Books

Wendy Bartlett- Cuyahoga County Public Library