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Looking for a Good Summer Read?

By Staff

July 28, 2021:  Every summer, MyhometownBronxville publishes a list of books recommended by our readers. 

Below is the list for this summer.  Each book title links to the Womrath Bookshop website, where you will see a description of the book and purchase the book.

Non Fiction

Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaou

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little

The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright

Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Fiction
 
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas by James L. Haley (fourth in a series that’s been called the American “Master and Commander”)

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Louise Penny’s Gamache series

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Shadow of the Wind by  Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Lucia Graves

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Health, Self-Help & Fitness

Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker

Adventure

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Science/Environment

Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

 
 

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