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	Podcast:		KQED’s Forum
	Episode:		Listeners Weigh In on What to Read This Summer
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:52:28
	Publish Date:		2019-06-05 12:00:00
	Description:		It’s time to finalize summer plans and for many of us that means deciding what books to read as much as it means deciding where to go. So tell us: What is the best book you’ve read so far this year? What should fellow listeners pack in their carry-on? We’ll also hear from Bay Area booksellers about what’s popular at their stores and what new releases they’re excited about. Listener Suggestions (Mentioned on Air): “The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World” by Simon Winchester “The Mars Room” by Rachel Kushner “Shadow War” by Jim Sciutto “The American Agent” by Jacqueline Winspear “Enemy Child” by Andrea Warren “Alcoholics Anonymous – The Big Book” by Anonymous “White Tears” by Hari Kunzru “Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919” by Stephen Puleo “Miracle Creek” by Angie Kim “Spying on the South” by Tony Horowitz “Frogkisser” by Garth Nix “Beauty Queens” by Libba Bray “Motherhood” by Sheila Heti “There There” by Tommy Orange “Losing Earth” by Nathaniel Rich “Jump on the LOVE Train: Many hearts await You” by Rae Lewis “Circe” by Madeline Miller “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” by Ronen Bergman “Murder in Bel Air” by Cara Black “Rules for Visiting” by Jessica Francis Kane “The Twilight of the Presidency” by George E. Reedy “Lyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir” by George Reedy “The First Wave” by Alex Kershaw “Madame Fourcade’s Secret War” by Lynne Olson “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshana Zuboff “A Crown for Cold Silver” by Alex Marshall “The Sentence is Death” by Anthony Horowitz “The Madonnas of Leningrad” by Debra Dean “Bottled Lightning” by Seth Fletcher “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens “My Brother’s Husband” by Gengoroh Tagame and Anne Ishii “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles “The Way and Its Power: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought” by Arthur Waley “Bright Dead Things: Poems” by Ada Limon “The Carrying” by Ada Limon “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth” by Sarah Smarsh “Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World” by Shannon Watts “Gandhi Before India” by Ramachandra Guha “Monday’s Not Coming” by Tiffany Jackson “Queer: A Graphic History” by Meg-John Barker “No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda” by Tharcisse Seminega Dan Stone’s Suggestions “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders “Ulysses” by James Joyce “The Hungry Ear” by Kevin Young “Wild Raspberries” cookbook by Suzie Frankfurt and Andy Warhol “Long Walk to Freedom” autobiography by Nelson Mandela Cheryl McKeon’s Suggestions “Chimes of a Lost Cathedral” by Janet Fitch “High Season” by Judy Blundell “Ask Again Yes” by Mary Beth Keane “The Scent Keeper” by Erika Bauermeister Leigh Odum’s Suggestions “Women Talking” by Mariam Toews “The 57 Bus” by Dashka Slater “Normal People” by Sally Rooney “Calypso” by David Sedaris “The Friend” by Sigrid Nunez “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” by John Carreyrou “An American Marriage” by Tayari Jones
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