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linggeek's "NPR Summer Books 2008"

NPR’s Critics’ Lists of recommended books for Summer 2008.

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1. Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
by Ginger Strand
  
2. Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of AmericanChildren's Literature
by Leonard Marcus
  
3.
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 The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Novel
by Don Robertson
  
4.
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 The Importance of Music to Girls
by Lavinia Greenlaw
  
5. The Other
by Thomas Tryon
  
6. Petite Anglaise
by Catherine Sanderson
  
7. The Boat
by Nam Le
  
8. One More Year: Stories
by Sana Krasikov
  
9. Freddie & Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody
by Mike Dawson
  
10. Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
by Jessica Queller
  
11. A Cure for Night: A Novel
by Justin Peacock
  
12. The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
by Galen M. Beckett
  
13. The Wolfman
by Nicholas Pekearo
  
14. Lady of the Snakes
by Rachel Pastan
  
15. The Sister
by Poppy Adams
  
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 The People on Privilege Hill
by Jane Gardam
  
17.
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 Exiles: A Novel
by Ron Hansen
  
18. Shadow Country (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Peter Matthiessen
  
19. The Invention of Everything Else
by Samantha Hunt
  
20. Say You're One of Them
by Uwem Akpan
  
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 A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
by Christopher Benfey
  
22.
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 Armageddon in Retrospect
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
23. Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i
by Susanna Moore
  
24. Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
by Barbara Hurd
  
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 America America: A Novel
by Ethan Canin
  
26. Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
by William Styron
  
27. The Messiah
by Marek Halter
  
28. Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond  
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 Untitled (Benioff, David)
by David Benioff
  
30. Now You See Him: A Novel
by Eli Gottlieb
  
31.
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 The Secret Scripture
by Sebastian Barry
  
32.
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 Trauma
by Patrick Mcgrath
  
33. Wrack and Ruin: A Novel
by Don Lee
  
34.
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 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
  
35. The Legal Limit
by Martin Clark
  
36. What Happened to Anna K.: A Novel
by Irina Reyn
  
37.
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 The Prince of Frogtown
by Rick Bragg
  
38. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
39. Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
  
40. Today: 101 Ghazals
by Suzanne Gardinier
  
41. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel (P.S.)
by Vendela Vida
  
42.
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 The Story of a Marriage: A Novel
by Andrew Sean Greer
  
43. Soon I Will be Invincible (Vintage)
by Austin Grossman
  
44.
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 Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories  
45. Hero
by Perry Moore
  
46. Superfolks
by Robert Mayer
  
47. Third Class Superhero
by Charles Yu
  
48. From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
by Minister Faust
  
49. Men Of Tomorrow: Geek, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
by Gerard Jones
  
50. I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks  
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Created by linggeek on Jul 14, 2008.