Recommended Summer Reading List

On June 23, 2008, Forum listeners called in with their recommended books for the summer. Listen to archived-edition of the program, and browse the list of books mentioned on the show.

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• Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades -- Robert Spencer
• The Reagan I Knew -- William Buckley
• The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and the Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate -- David Freddoso
• The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) -- Mark Bauerlein
• Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care -- Kathleen Parker
• Empires of Trust: How Rome Built--And America is Building--A New World -- Thomas F. Madden
• A Blue Hand: The Beats in India -- Deborah Baker
• Trophies: A Novel -- Heather Thomas
• A Short History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson
• Cure Unkown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic -- Pamela Weintraub
• Skinny Bitch -- Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman
• A Brief History of Everything -- Ken Wilber
• A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation -- David W. Blight
• The March: A Novel -- E.L. Doctorow
• The Enchantress of Florence -- Salman Rushdie
• Shantaram: A Novel -- Gregory David Roberts
• Unaccustomed Earth -- Jhumpa Lahiri
• Don't Start the Revolution Without Me -- Jesse Ventura and Dick Russell
• Tokyo Zombie -- Yusaku Hanakuma, Ryan Sands (translator)
• Infidel -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Sold -- Patricia McCormick
• The Art of Racing in the Rain -- Garth Stein
• Chronicler of the Winds -- Henning Mankel, Tiina Nunnally (translator)
• The Blind Man of Seville -- Robert Wilson
• The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel -- Jeffrey Deaver
• The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America -- Robert Scheer
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time -- Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots and October Surprises -- Joseph Cummins
• The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't -- Cliff Schecter
• The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker -- Steven Greenhouse
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -- Robert A. Heinlein
• Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert A. Heinlein
• Garden Spells -- Sarah Addison Allen
• Sugar Queen -- Sarah Addison Allen
• Midnights with the Mystic: A Little Guide to Freedom and Bliss -- Cheryl Simone and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
• Head and Heart: American Christianities -- Garry Wills
• End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot -- Naomi Wolf
• Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents -- Michael Gurian
• Geology of San Francisco Bay Region (California Natural History Guides) -- Doris Sloan
• Best Food Writing 2007 -- Holly Hughes
• The Man Who Ate Everything -- Jeffrey Steingarten
• The Tummy Trilogy -- Calvin Trillin
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel -- Haruki Murakami
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster -- John Krakauer
• The Bible (New Revised Standard Version) --
• So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance -- Gabriel Ziab
• The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read -- Andre Schiffrin
• The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance -- Liz McIntyre and Katherine Albrecht
• Adventures of Amir Hamza -- Musharraf Ali Farooqi
• When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa -- Peter Godwin
• Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire -- Julius Lester
• Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family -- Qui Du'c Nguyen
• Fables Vol. 10: The Good Prince -- Bill Willingham (author), Mark Buckingham (Illustrator)
• Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama that Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 -- Lynn Spencer
• Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon -- Thomas M. Myers and Michael P. Ghiglieri
• Soccer Chick Rules -- Dawn Fitzgerald
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel -- Michael Chabon
• Consider Phlebas -- Iain M. Banks
• On the Loose -- Renny Russell and Terry Russell
• To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War -- Jeff Shaara
• Coal Black Horse -- Robert Olmstead

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