Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Books for your 2016 Summer Reading List
Revisit our Best Books for Your Summer Reading List forum at the Happy Dog here.
Recommended Reads by Valentino Zullo, Teaching Fellow at Kent State University and Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence at Cleveland Public Library
Comics and Graphic Narratives
Fiction:
- Catwoman by Genevieve Valentine, Garry Brown and Dave Messina
- Wonder Woman: Earth One by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette
- Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro
- Patience by Daniel Clowes
- Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Takeshi Miyazawa and others
- Jessica Jones: Alias by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos
Nonfiction:
- Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East 1978-1984 by Riad Sattouf
- March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
- Turning Japanese by MariNaomi
- The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule by Igort and Jamie Richards
- Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
- The Story of My Tits by Jennifer Hayden
- Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart
Recommended Reads by Karen R. Long, Manager of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Fiction:
- The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson (follow to the hugely popular Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand)
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (publishing September 13, 2016)
- An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Nonfiction:
- Joe Gould’s Teeth by Jill Lepore
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahrens
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
- Bettyville by George Hodgman
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
- What the Eye Hears by Brian Seibert
Recommended Reads by Cal Zunt of the Notable Books Council of the American Library Association
Fiction:
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
- The Whale: a Love Story by Mark Beauregard
- The Veins of the Ocean: a Novel by Patrica Engel
- The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
- Behold the Dreamers by Mboulo Mbue
- Charcoal Joe: an Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosely
- Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
Nonfiction:
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
- Joe Gould's Teeth by Jill Lepore
- Barbarian Days: a Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
- Approaching Ali: a Reclamation in Three Acts by Davis Miller
- Stiches: a Memoir by David Small