Lists of Bests: linggeek's "NPR Summer Books 2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/57533 NPR's Critics' Lists of recommended books for Summer 2008. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:52:24 GMT en-us 0 50 70 50 0 Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4122338 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4122338"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iyVIQA8IL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ginger Strand</div> Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of AmericanChildren's Literature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3210926 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3210926"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11PLlGJeZ5L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Marcus</div> The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3460121 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Robertson</div> The Importance of Music to Girls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3027356 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lavinia Greenlaw</div> The Other http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4372795 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4372795"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511o91-nMyL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Tryon</div> Petite Anglaise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4446111 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4446111"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QntH0KBjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Catherine Sanderson</div> The Boat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3910588 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3910588"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bg2WoeNxL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nam Le</div> One More Year: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4028393 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4028393"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dF8aFoHGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sana Krasikov</div> Freddie & Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3825132 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3825132"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Bj85lBgAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mike Dawson</div> Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3866483 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3866483"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qitM8JpkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jessica Queller</div> A Cure for Night: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369459 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369459"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KJ%2BI5JlbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Justin Peacock</div> The Magicians and Mrs. Quent http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4446130 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4446130"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ql%2BU1UKbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Galen M. Beckett</div> The Wolfman http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3580797 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3580797"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01s9crhDTEL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Pekearo</div> Lady of the Snakes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3025223 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3025223"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Na20TYA3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Pastan</div> The Sister http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4038742 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4038742"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21R5YJ9DE2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Poppy Adams</div> The People on Privilege Hill http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3223983 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Gardam</div> Exiles: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2994284 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Hansen</div> Shadow Country (Modern Library Chronicles) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3010186 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3010186"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01I7Dz4zIUL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Matthiessen</div> The Invention of Everything Else http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506444 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506444"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01IUx3CyYAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samantha Hunt</div> Say You're One of Them http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4062184 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4062184"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OhI355dLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Uwem Akpan</div> A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3504450 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Benfey</div> Armageddon in Retrospect http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2980740 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227617 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227617"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01%2BwTNezPZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susanna Moore</div> Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369458 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4369458"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fTrhjwXSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Hurd</div> America America: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2942358 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ethan Canin</div> Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3565943 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3565943"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01C6H7Rht1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> The Messiah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3232420 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3232420"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01884SH3WpL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marek Halter</div> Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506817 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3506817"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01SC5QaAj%2BL.jpg" /></a></div> Untitled (Benioff, David) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2934494 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Benioff</div> Now You See Him: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3433242 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3433242"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01ZD63L8BBL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eli Gottlieb</div> The Secret Scripture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2953479 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sebastian Barry</div> Trauma http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2899207 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Mcgrath</div> Wrack and Ruin: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3742515 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3742515"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11qAy9-HjWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Lee</div> The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3038990 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Ann Shaffer</div> The Legal Limit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4263229 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4263229"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zaB5H5U7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Clark</div> What Happened to Anna K.: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4054259 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4054259"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UfTFRtxmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irina Reyn</div> The Prince of Frogtown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3006472 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick Bragg</div> My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856771 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856771"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01bs2vXCPWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> Mudbound http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3699891 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3699891"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GLQPLgf0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hillary Jordan</div> Today: 101 Ghazals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516174 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3516174"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Oux29BaXL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Gardinier</div> Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2996694 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2996694"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/016sc0a5iiL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vendela Vida</div> The Story of a Marriage: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2937687 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Sean Greer</div> Soon I Will be Invincible (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3817860 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3817860"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iJP4rolHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Austin Grossman</div> Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3052195 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Hero http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836808 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836808"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/016s6TgoIKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Perry Moore</div> Superfolks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231111 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231111"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312339925.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1108483491_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Mayer</div> Third Class Superhero http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2507525 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2507525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156030810.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59023652_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Yu</div> From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1876366 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1876366"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345466373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Minister Faust</div> Men Of Tomorrow: Geek, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62776 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/62776"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465036570.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V58509169_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gerard Jones</div> I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2826700 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2826700"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/019LWVa4WcL.jpg" /></a></div>