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Great Reads For Great Weather
PlayIt's August, with a few more weeks of summery weather. If you're lucky, that might mean some lazy days off, some time at the beach or a few afternoons on the porch with a good book.
Great summer reads can make this brief season feel a little more relaxing, or depending on your literary preferences, more adventurous or more educational. We get some reading suggestions from two people who spend a lot of time thinking about what makes a good book.
Guests
Alice Hoffman, Boston-based writer and author of the new novel, "The Marriage of Opposites. "She'll be reading from it tonight at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge and at Newtonville Books on Sept. 17.
Shuchi Saraswat, book buyer for the Brookline Booksmith.
Radio Boston's Summer Reading List
New England Books
- "Almost Famous Women" by Megan Mayhew Bergman
- "Euphoria" by Lily King
- "Everything I Never Told You" by Celeste Ng
- "The Arsonist" by Sue Miller
- "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough
Fiction
- "How to Build a Girl" by Caitlin Moran
- "The Hired Man" by Aminatta Forna
- "The Book of Laney" by Myfanwy Collins
- "The Small Backs of Children" by Lidia Yuknavitch
- "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
- "Hausfrau" by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Non-Fiction
- "The Idle Traveler" by Dan Kieran
- "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
- "The Argonauts" by Maggie Nelson
Young Adult/Kids
- "Between the Lines" by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
- "Off the Page" by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
- "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews
This segment aired on August 5, 2015.