Summer Reading 2015: a list for anyone looking for a book or three into which to dive during the coming months while one is lolling on the beach, seriously globe trotting, or simply dreaming
Nonfiction
Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the battle for the Soul of a City, by Paul Strathern
How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery, by Kevin Ashton
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab, by Stephen Inskeep
The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong, by Judith Rodin
Memoir/Biography
On the Move, by Oliver Sacks
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, by Sally Mann
Do No Harm, by Henry Marsh
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War, by Lynsey Addario
The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
Travel
Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City, by Mark Adams
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America by John Waters
Fiction
Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
How to Start a Fire, by Lisa Lutz
The Festival of Insignificance, Milan Kundera
All That Followed, by Gabriel Urza
The Boatmaker, by John Benditt
Young Adult:
Undertow, by Michael Buckley
Because You’ll Never Meet Me, by Leah Thomas
Those Girls, by Lauren Saft
Juvenile Fiction:
Circus Mirandus, by Cassie Beasley
Book Scavenger, by Jennifer Bertman
Rook, by Sharon Cameron
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer, by Kelly Jones
The Arctic Code by Matthew J. Kirby
Some Older Paperback Favorites
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Ahab’s Wife,by Sena Jeter Naslund
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
Shantaram, by Gregory Roberts
Straightman, by Richard Russo
Sense of An Ending, by Julian Barnes
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy