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Summer Reading List

December 27, 2011 By Spoonful of Sugar - 5 Comments

Thanks so much to everyone for leaving your recommendations for best reads of 2011. I have compiled everyone’s suggestions into a list that I will take with me to the library – I can see I will have to make plenty of time for reading over the summer break!

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I have compiled the list below for others looking for good reads this summer!

 

Fiction – General and Contemporary
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah
My Sisters Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Isabel Allende
Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
Room, Emma Donoghue
I married you for Happiness, Lily Tuck
Partitions, Amit Majmudar
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman
The history of love by Nicole Krauss
Left neglected, Lisa Genova
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
Liz Bryski
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
The Dressmaker, Posie Grapham-Evans
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, M Shaffer and A Barrows
Alphabet Sisters, Monica McInerney
Historical
Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
Madonna’s of Leningrad, Debra Dean
The Sweetest Thing, Elizabeth Musser
The Swan House, Elizabeth Musser
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Romance
Her Mother’s Hope, Francine Rivers
 Her Daughter’s Dream, Francine Rivers
Fantasy
The Crystal Realm – Krytors Return, C J Ballantyne
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Crime/Mystery/ThrillerDescription: Delete
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, Stieg Larsson
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
American Assassin, Vince Flynn
Sister, Rosamunde Lupton
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
State Fair, Earlene Fowler
Gothic
The Distant Hours, Kate Morton
The Forgotten garden, Kat Morton
Young Adult
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Hunger Games,  Suzanne Collins
The Declaration, Gemma Malley
Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
The World as We Know it, Jospeh Monninger
The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
The Pipers Son, Melina Marchetta
Biography
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
The Invisible Wall. Harry Bernstein
The Happiest Refugee, Ahn Doh
Be Home Before Dark, Roland Rocchiccioli
Non Fiction
America Aflame, How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield
The greater journey by David Mccullough
Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
House of prayer no. 2 by Mark Richard
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  1. MadCraftyMama says

    December 27, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    Thanks for that compilation, I’ll be printing it off and heading to the library as well. 🙂

    Reply
  2. CraftyMummy says

    December 28, 2011 at 12:20 am

    Just what I needed to stock my new kindle – thanks!

    Reply
  3. Terriaw says

    December 28, 2011 at 8:35 am

    Wow, this is an amazing list! I will definitely refer to this when I’m looking for a good read! I’ve read a couple on this list that were fantastic, so you are going to have a fun year of reading!

    Reply
  4. Chocolate Cat says

    December 28, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    Started ‘the help’ yesterday! What a list, am going to print it off so when I run out of books I have some other ideas!

    Reply
  5. Deb @ home life simplified says

    December 28, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    Fantastic list – so many of my favourites on there (especially book thief and still alice) and loads I am now adding to my “to read” list! glad i followed the link on Crafty Mummy’s FB page

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