What’s On Your Summer Reading List?

Can you believe summer is here? Well you probably can since we've been having some serious record hot, scorching temperatures here in the South! Moreover, what's summer without a great glass of southern sweetened iced tea or lemonade, and some good reads to wet our literary appetite? Well, leave it to Oprah Winfrey to come up with her 2010 Summer Reading List. There may be some books listed that you read and probably some you intend to read, but there is a variety of genres to choose from. O’s Summer List includes:

Kings of the Earth
By Jon Clinch

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
By Aimee Bender

Someone Knows My Name
By Lawrence Hill

Words That Matter
By The Oprah Magazine - HarperStudio

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
By Maile Meloy

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
By Robin Black

My Name Is Mary Sutter
By Robin Oliveira

The Madonnas of Echo Park
By Brando Skyhorse

Parrot & Olivier in America
By Peter Carey

Dombey and Son
By Charles Dickens

Elizabeth Street
By Laurie Fabiano

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
By Kelly O'Connor McNees

The Hundred-Foot Journey
By Richard C. Morais

What Is Left the Daughter
By Howard Norman

Father of the Rain
By Lily King

The Passage
By Justin Cronin

American Music
By Jane Mendelsohn

The Summer We Read Gatsby
By Danielle Ganek

Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life
By Lisa Kogan

How Did You Get This Number
By Sloane Crosley

For more information and a brief description of these books, click on this link to learn more:
http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Summer-Reading-List-Summer-Books/1

If you have any good reads that you would like to share with our audience, please include the book’s title and author’s full name. If you have a link to the book, feel free to include that too.

Good reading everyone!