It’s A Wonderful Summer for Reading

Harvard Book Store’s
Summer 2007 Reading Suggestions

Five of Harvard Book Store’s favorite authors from 2007— Gary Shytengart, Martha McPhee, A.M. Homes, Seth Loyd, Anne Fadiman — suggest books for your summer.

Gary Shytengart, author of Absurdistan, recommends:

Gary Shytengart suggests...

• Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
• Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
• An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
• The Last of Her Kind: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  

Martha McPhee,author of L'America, recommends:

Martha McPhee suggests...

• The Financier by Theodore Dreiser
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
• The Group by Mary McCarthy
• Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art (P.S.) by Rene Steinke
• Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
  

A.M. Homes, author of The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir, recommends:

A.M. Homes suggests...

• The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
• My Father’s House: A Childhood in Wartime Bavaria by Beatrix Ost
• The New Yorkers: A Novel by Cathleen Schine
• The Big Girls by Susanna Moore
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Issacson
  

Seth Lloyd, author of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos, recommends:

Seth Lloyd suggests...

• The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn
• Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
• Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling