DIALOGUE's Good Summer Reading List 2012

Recommendations By Guests

Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of Men

• Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
• A Rumor of War, by Philip Caputo
• The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson
• Blood, Bones & Butter, by Gabrielle Hamilton
• Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories, by Edith Pearlman
• The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry, by Joe Wilkins
• When I Was a Child I Read Books, by Marilynne Robinson

Tim Cahill, author of A Wolverine is Eating my Leg

• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson
• A Thousand Lives, by Julia Scheers
• Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
• Jubilee Hitchhiker, by William Hjortsberg
• Raylan, by Elmore Leonard
• Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer

Viewers' Picks

• Moji: Ines of My Soul, by Isabel Allende
• Sarah: God is Not Great, by Christopher Hitchens
• Linda: The Real Romney, by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman
• Linda: From Scratch: Inside the Lightning Launch of the College of Western Idaho, by Dennis Griffin
• Rick: Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell
• Margaret F: America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines, by Gail Collins
• Katie: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo
• Melanie: The Last Letter from Your Lover, by Jojo Moyes
• Scott: Night Soldiers, by Alan Furst
• Scott: Kindred, by Octavia Butler
• Margaret H: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Margaret H: Parzival by Wolfram Eschenbach
• Margaret H: Perceval, The Story of the Grail, by Chretien de Troyes