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Books selected specially for the summer by the staff and some literary and scholarly friends of Harvard Book Store. |
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Fiction The Metaphysical Touch by Sylvia Brownrigg The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch The Prayer of the Bone by Paul Bryers Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Non-Fiction The Immaculate Invasion Bob Shacochis I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years by Bill Bryson A Unit of Water A Unit of Time by Douglas Whynott Time Love Memory by Jonathan Weiner Young Readers Holes by Louis Sachar First Test by Tamora Pierce Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka Imani All Mine and All-Bright Court by Connie Porter |
more on these titles is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at NYU. A MacArthur Prize fellow, he is the author of more than twenty books. This summer, he recommends you try Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth The Visible Man by Henri Cole Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds by Donald Harm Akenson Economy of the Unlost by Anne Carson |
more on these titles is the author of The Good Mother and While I Was Gone. This summer, she recommend you put the following on your list: At Freddies and The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacey Schiff PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies by Ken Kalfus A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just |
more on these titles is Visiting Lecturer on Afro-American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. Her most recent book is My Garden (Book). She recommends adding the following to your list: The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson The Travels of William Bartram Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens Wonder, The Rainbow and The Aesthetics of Rare Experiences by Philip Fisher |
more on these titles is the author of Memoirs of a Geisha. This summer, he recommends you dive into: The Tipping Poing by Malcolm Gladwell The Art of Raising a Puppy by The Monks of New Skate Lucy Crocker 2.0 by Caroline Preston Big Trouble by Dave Barry |
more on these titles is John E. Burchard Professor of Science and Writing and senior lecturer in physics at M.I.T. He is the author of Einstein's Dreams. This summer, he recommends you try: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Copenhagen by Michael Frayn A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel The Human Stain by Philip Roth |
Pick four...get five! Buy any four books from this selection and Harvard Book Store will give you a $5 coupon off your next purchase*. Plus, we'll ship your books for free to your domestic summer destination. * coupon redeemable with in-store purchase only |