August 2012

Booklists · National Read a Book Day

September 6th is National Read a Book Day! Celebrate with one of these good reads!

Books for Kids: Easy Books

Excuse Me, I’m Trying to Read

Mary Jo Amani

Inside the Books: Readers and Libraries Around the World

Toni Buzzeo

Otto the Book Bear

Katie Cleminson

Disney Nursery Rhymes Read-Along: Storybook and CD

How Rocket Learned to Read

Tad Hills

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

William Joyce

Lola Reads to Leo

Anna McQuinn

Yoko Learns to Read

Rosemary Wells

Books for Kids: Juvenile Fiction and Nonfiction

Year of the Book

Andrea Cheng

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell

Chris Colfer

Guys Read: The Sports Pages

Edited by Jon Scieszka

Adult Nonfiction: General

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

Allison Hoover Bartlett

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

Pierre Bayard

Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century’s Best Sellers

James W. Hall

Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

Susan Hill

Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits

Jack Murninghan

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Azar Nafisi

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared

Alice Ozma

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Nina Sankovitch

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

John Sutherland

Adult Fiction

Arcadia

Lauren Groff

The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey

Watergate

Thomas Mallon

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

The Tiger’s Wife

Tea Obreht

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

The Expats

Chris Pavone

A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny

The Cove

Ron Rash

Bent Road

Lori Roy

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

Need more suggestions? Contact your local library and a reference librarian will be happy to assist you.