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2007 Summer Reading List
Kelly Estep (Carmichael’s Bookstore):
- "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" – Barbara Kingsolver
- "Bangkok Haunts" – John Burdett
- "Suite Francaise" – Irene Nemirovsky
Robert Gieszl (Louisville Free Public Library):
- "Napoleon’s Pyramids" – William Dietrich
- "Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution" – Ruth Scurr
- "Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway" – Witold Rybczynski
Randy Smith (Destinations Booksellers):
- "Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America" – Andrew Ferguson
- "Requiem for an Assassin" – Barry Eisler
- "The Book of Air and Shadows" – Michael Gruber
Deanna Tinsley’s (Zora Neale Hurston Reading Group):
- "Blood Done Sign My Name" – Timothy Tyson
- "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive" – Alexander McCall Smith
- "Red River" – Lalita Tademy
Caller Suggestions and Additional Guest Picks
- "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- "Gems, Germs & Steel" – Jared Diamond
- "The Epicenter" – Joel C. Rosenberg
- "The Road" – Cormac McCarthy
- "Last WitchFinder" – James Morrow
- "On Chesil Beach" – Ian McEwen
- "Small Island" – Andrea Levy
- "The Time Traveler’s Wife" – Audrey Niffenegger
- "Requiem for an Assassin" – Barry Eisler
- "The Man in my Basement" – Walter Mosely
- "Anna Karenina" – Leo Tolstoy
- "Bourne Identity" – Robert Ludlum
- "Diana Gabaldon" – Outlander Series
- "Bowling Alone" – Robert Putnam
- "Kindness of Strangers" – Lonely Planet Books
- "Don’t You Remember?" – George Ella Lyon
- "Lean Mean Thirteen" – Janet Evanovich
- "A Thousand Splendid Suns" – Khaled Hosseini
- "The World Without Us" – Alan Weisman
- "The DaVinci Code" – Dan Brown
- "Hadrian’s Wall and Scourge of God" – William Dietrich