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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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