Not Your Typical Summer Reading List

Petra Mayer's Recommendations

• "Uprooted," a novel by Naomi Novik
• "Loving Day," a novel by Mat Johnson
• "The Fly Trap," a memoir by Fredrik Sjöberg’s
• "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage," a graphic novel by Sydney Padua
• "The Lion’s Daughter," a novel by Loretta Chase

R. A. Washington's Recommendations

• "Sand Opera," a book of poems by Philip Metres
• "S O S: Poems 1961-2013," by Amiri Baraka
• "Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective," nonfiction by Scott Crow

Guests

• Petra Mayer, an editor at NPR Books. She tweets @Petramatic.
• R. A. Washington, poet and musician who co-owns Guide to Kulchur, a bookstore in Cleveland, Ohio. He tweets @clevelandtapes.