The days are getting longer and, for many, summer vacations are on the horizon. That means more time to settle in with a good book. What book would you recommend most for a long summer afternoon?
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Euphoria by Lily King
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
Guests:
Luisa Smith, head buyer for Book Passage, which has stores in San Francisco and Corte Madera
President Taft is Stuck in the Bath by Mac Barnett
Under the Egg by Laura Fitzgerald
The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Sugaree Rising by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Ultimate Sacrifice by Lamar Waldron & Thom Hartmann
Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron & Thom Hartmann
Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkersman
Longbourn by Jo Baker
My Struggle Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Twin by Gerband Bakker & David Colmer
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
King of Cuba by Cristina Garcia
Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Garden in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Wizard of Us by Jean Houston
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque
The Bees by Laline Paull
How Jesus Became God by Bart D Ehrman
The Trouble With Gumballs by James Nelson
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Cleft Heart by Karl Schonborn
Chance by Kem Nunn
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Berrybender Series by Larry McMurtry
Mystic Street by S.T. Georgiou
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
King Warrior Magician Lover by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
Jacob's New Dress by Sarah & Ian Hoffman
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
The Geneva Trap: A Liz Carlyle Novel by Stella Remington
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
A Change in the Weather by Raymond Welch
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Fall of the House of Dixie by Bruce Levine
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Season of the Witch by David Talbot
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Over Easy by Mimi Pond
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya
God's Hotel by Victoria Sweet
Capital by Thomas Piketty
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie
The Stormlight Archive Series by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Space Chronicles by Neil deGrasse Tyson
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose