On the next Your Call, we’ll open the lines to get your recommendations for reading while on vacation or enjoying a long summer evening. Have a book you’re looking forward to reading right now? Something you just discovered or an all-time favorite everyone should know about? And if you’re a parent, what are the books you’ve found your kids can’t put down? E-mail your picks to feedback@yourcallradio.org and tune in to learn about great books you’ve never heard of. It’s Your Call, with Holly Kernan and you.
Guests:
Kevin Hunsanger, the co-owner of Green Apple books and music
Janel Feierabend, the director of book selling at Book Passage bookstore
Book List (many are Young Adult):
Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
When The Killing's Done by T. C. Boyle
Bridge of Time/Steinbeck's Ghost by Lewis Buzbee
Europe on Five Wrong Turns a Day by Doug Mack
Season of the Witch by David Talbot
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
The Real Romney by Michale Kranish and Scott Helman
The Executioner's Story by Norman Mailer
Makeda by Randal Robinson
Miss Gone-Overseas: A Pillow Book by Mitchellanne Hagerstorm
Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osbourne
The Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson
Fortune is Bones by Marilyn Nelson
The Founding Trilogy by D.M. Cornish
The Trixie Belden series by Julie Campbell
The Belgariad by David Eddings
An Irish County Doctor by Patrick Taylor
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Circle of Magic and Alanna series by Tamora Pierce
The Science of Leonardo by Fritjof Capra
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obrent
Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color by Elizabeth Alexander, Marliyn Nelson and Floyd Cooper
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred L. Taylor
Wonderstruck/The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Koingsburg
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
McTeague by Frank Norris
The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett
Lunch Bucket Paradise by Fred Setterberg
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Eloise by Kay Thompsonn
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman (*graphic novel)
Swamplandia by Karren Russell
Louisianna Power and Light by John Dufresne
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David G. McCullough
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
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