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Friends' recommended reading summer 2016

The Orphan Train.  Christina Baker Kline
the girl on the train by Paula Hawkins 
One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Beckman
One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern
A Darker shade of magic by VE Schwab 
A Summer Promise, Katie Flynn
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again- David Foster Wallace.
Absalom Absalom! - William Faulkner
All My Fortunes, Katie Flynn
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doen.
Alone in the Dark Karen Rose
Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass
Closer Than You Think Karen Rose
Dans le cafe de la jeunesse perdue - Patrick Modiano
Dying to Live: A Guide to Living with Motor Neurone Disease by Kevin Jordan
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
Gently by the Shore - Alan Hunter
Gently Does it - Alan Hunter
Harriet Beamer Takes The Bus by Joyce Magnini.
Home is Burning by Dan Marshall. (Hilarious and foul mouthed memoir.)
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Instrumental  , James Rhodes'
JR - William Gaddis
L'innocente - Gabriele D'Annunzio
La vie devant soi - Romain Gary
Le Peau de Chagrin - Honore Balzac
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Lizettes List by Susan Vreeland
Local Anesthetic - Gunter Grass
M Train by Patti Smith
Moon over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch
 Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hil
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
Rock n Roll - Tom Stoppard
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Automobile Club of Egypt
The Beekeepers Apprentice by Laurie R. King
The Crime at Black Dudley - Margery Allingham
The Lake House by Kate Morton
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Other Widow by Susan Crawford. (Creepy & suspenseful & I couldn't put it down! Had me hooked in the first chapter.)
The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Ulysses - James Joyce
Under The Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Watch Your Back, Karen Rose
What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel , Maria Semple
Whispers Underground, Ben Aaronovitch
White Nights - Ann Cleeves

Who Let the Dogs  In , by Molly Ivins.

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