Summer Reading Club 2001

Great Short Books for Busy Readers

Nonfiction

Archy and Mehitabel
Don Marquis
817 M357am

Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy
362.196994 G786Zg 1994

The Book of Yaak
Rick Bass
508.78681 B317 1996

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year
Esme Raji Codell
372.110092 C669Zc 1999

The Education of Little Tree
Forrest Carter
818.5403 C323e

The Elements of Style
William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. White
808 S927 1979a

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Anne Fadiman
814.54 F145Zf 1998

Faith and Compassion: The Life and Work of Mother Teresa
Raghu Rai and Navin Chawla
271.97 qT316Zr 1996

50 Ways To Train Your Cat
Sally Franklin
636.8 F834 1996

Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf
Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake
796.352 P411 1992

Herbs and the Earth
Henry Beston
633.9 B561 1990

The Hidden Life of Dogs
Elizabeth Marshall Thoomas
499.74442 T455 1993

Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
836.912 R573Xem

The Moving Target
W. S. Merwin
811 M576mv

My Life on the Road: An Autobiography
Nan Joyce
941.500491497 J89Zj

My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail around Cape Horn
David Hays
910.45 H425Zh 1995

Night
Elie Wiesel
940.53089924 W6512Zw 1982

No Such Thing as a Bad Day: A Memoir
Hamilton Jordan
362.196994 J82Zj 2000

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Ji-li Jiang
951.056 J61Zj 1997

The Sea around Us
Rachel Carson
551.46 61

The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
818.5409 D578Zd2

You Can’t Get There from Here
Ogden Nash
817 N252y

Fiction

Night Train: A Novel
Martin Amis

Durable Goods
Elizabeth Berg

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury

The Persian Pickle Club
Sandra Dallas

The Commitments
Roddy Doyle

The Floatplane Notebooks
Clyde Edgerton

A Cup of Tea
Amy Ephron

Human Voices
Penelope Fitzgerald

Billy
Albert French

Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
George V. Higgins

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Stephen King

Einstein’s Dreams
Alan P. Lightman

Cal
Bernard MacLaverty

The Cockfighter
Frank Manley

The Giant, O’Brien
Hilary Mantel

The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills

Black Robe: A Novel
Brian Moore

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Lorrie Moore

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

Fields of Glory: A Novel
Jean Rouaud

Memory’s Tailor
Lawrence Rudner

Refugio, They Named You Wrong
Susan Clark Schofield

The Dechronization of Sam Magruder
George Gaylord Simpson

Coffee Will Make You Black
April Sinclair

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark

Bear and His Daughter: Stories
Robert Stone

Morality Play
Barry Unsworth

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Daniel Wallace

Montana 1948: A Novel
Larry Watson

The Wedding
Dorothy West