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Summer Reading List
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May 23, 2002 -- Melinda Penkava hosts Talk of the Nation's annual discussion of the best summer reading. Her guests include David Kipen, book critic for The San Francisco Chronicle; Laura Miller, editorial director for Salon.com and Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor for The Chicago Tribune. Martha Davis Beck, editor of Riverbank Review, a quarterly publication about children's literature, weighs in with the best summer books for kids.
 Listeners' Picks
David Kipen's list:
• Bad Boy Brawly Brown, by Walter Mosley (Little Brown & Co., 2002).
• Dirt Music, by Tim Winton (Scribner, 2002).
• Embattled Dreams, by Kevin Starr (Oxford University Press, 2002).
• Radiance, by Carter Scholz (Picador, 2002).
• The Rotters' Club, by Jonathan Coe (Knopf, 2002).
• Three Junes, by Julia Glass (Pantheon, 2002).
Laura Miller's list:
• Big If, by Mark Costello (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002).
• The City of Your Final Destination, by Peter Cameron (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002).
• The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde (Viking Press, 2002).
• The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking Press, 2002).
• Lusitania, by Diana Preston (Walker & Co., 2002).
• Prague, by Arthur Phillips (Random House, 2002).
• The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2002).
Elizabeth Taylor's list:
• Cherry, by Sarah Wheeler (Random House, 2002).
• The Dive from Clausen's Pier, by Ann Packer (Knopf, 2002).
• Florence: A Delicate Case, by David Leavitt (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002).
• The Perfect Store, by Adam Cohen (Little Brown & Co., 2002).
• The Pirate Hunter, by Richard Zacks (Hyperion, 2002).
• Still Love in Strange Places, by Beth Kephart (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002).
• Tuxedo Park, by Jennet Conant (Simon & Schuster, 2002).
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken, by Studs Terkel (New Press, 2001).
For kids:
• Handbook for Boys: A Novel, by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins Juvenile Books, 2002).
• Holes, by Louis Sachar (Yearling Books, 2000).
• Silent to the Bone, by E. L. Konigsburg (Pocket Books, 2002)
Martha Davis Beck's list:
• 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow, 2002).
• Benny and the Binky, by Barbro Lindgren (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002)>
• The Broken Cat, by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow, 2002).
• Clever Beatrice, by Margaret Willey (Simon & Schuster, 2002).
• Everything on a Waffle, by Polly Horvath (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002).
• Familiar and Haunting, by Philippa Pearce (Greenwillow, 2002).
• Field Trips: Bug Hunting, Animal Tracking, Bird Watching, Shore Walking, by Jim Arnosky (HarperCollins, 2002).
• Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002).
• Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autoiography, by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins Juvenile Books, 2002).
• Madlenka's Dog, by Peter Sis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002).
• Mud is Cake, by Pam Munoz Ryan (Hyperion, 2002).
• The Stray Dog, by Marc Simont (HarperCollins, 2002).>
• Things Not Seen, by Andrew Clements (Philomel, 2002).
• Ruby Holler, by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins, 2002).
• Seek, by Paul Fleishman (Cricket, 2001).>
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brasheares (Delacorte, 2002).
• True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Atheneum, 2001).
• What Charlie Heard, by Mordicai Gerstein (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002).
• Wildflowers around the Year, by Hope Ryden (Clarion, 2001).
• Zazoo, by Richard Mosher (Clarion, 2002).
Listeners' Picks
• Girl Singer: an Autobiography, by Rosemary Clooney (Random House, 1999).
• Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco Press, 2001).
• Linked Arms: A Rural Community Resists Nuclear Waste, Thomas V. Peterson (State University of New York Press, 2001).
• Lucky Man: A Memoir, by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion, 2002).
• Malaise, by Nancy Lemann (Scribner, 2002).
• Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden (Vintage Books, 1999).
• Next of Kin: My Conversations With Chimpanzees, by Roger Fouts (Bard Books, 1998).
• The Ornament of the World, by Maria Rosa Menocal (Little Brown & Co., 2002).
• Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky (Walker & Co., 2002).
• Shelters of Stone, by Jean M. Auel (Crown Publishing, 2002).
For kids:
• Ben and Me, by Robert Lawson (Little Brown & Co., 1988).
• Captain Underpants, by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic Paperbacks, 1999).
• The Plot that Thickened, by P.G. Wodehouse (G. K. Hall, 1973).
• Wolf Trails, by Nik Sawe (Dunhill Publishing, 2001).
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