State of Affairs
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