2006 101 Great Summer Reads

F - Fiction
NF - Non Fiction
YA - Young Adult
Jr F - Junior Fiction

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, F
Twelve Red Herrings, Jeffery Archer, F
Pull of the Moon, Elizabeth Berg, F
Heading West, Doris Betts, F
Scarlett Feather, Maeve Binchy, F
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, Lawrence Block, F
The Buffalo Soldier, Chris Bohjalian, F
Just Rewards (Book 6 of the Harte Family Saga),
Barbara Taylor Bradford, F
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares, F
Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley, Bio
Celia Garth, Gwen Bristow, F
The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years,
John Brockman, NF 609
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown, F
The Promise, Oral Lee Brown, NF 378.3
Dawn Land,  Joseph Bruchac, F
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, F
Where Soldiers Fear to Tread,  John S. Burnett, NF 967.7305
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns, F
Sally Hemmings, Barbara Chase-Riboud,  F
Alexander Hamilton    Ron Chernow, Bio
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, F
State of Fear, Michael Crighton, F
Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross, F
Alice’s Tulips, Sandra Dallas, F
The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticant, F
The Peculiar People, Jan de Hartog, F
Loved Walked In, Marisa de los Santos, F
The Twelfth Card, Jeffery Deaver, F
The Firefly, P. T. Deutermann, F
The Last Days of Dogtown, Anita Diamant, F
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, NF 306.9
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant, F
The Sleeping Bride, Dorothy Eden, F
Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Audio Book
Shem Creek, Dorthea Benton Frank, F
My Heartbeat, Garret Freymann-Weyr, YA/F
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, NF 337
The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico, Jr Pic Book/F
People of the Mist, Kathleen O’Neal Gear, F
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell, NF 153.4
Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bio
Future Homemakers of America, Laurie Graham, F
Nail Biter, Sarah Graves, F
Bookends, Jane Green, F
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.,
Sandra Gulland, F
Leeway Cottage, Beth Gutcheon, F
Between Sisters, Kristen Hannah, F
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly, Joyce Hansen, Jr/F
Food for the Soul, Harlem Baptist Church, NF 641.59
Winter World, Bernd Heinrich, NF 591.54
The Country Gentleman, Fiona Hill, F
Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels in Your own Backyard,
John Himmelman, NF  595.78
Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby, NF 796.334
A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby, F
The White Dawn, JamesHouston, F
A Company of Swans, Eva Ibbotson, F
Vernon Can Read, Vernon Jordan, Audio Book
The Good German, Joseph Kanon F
Ordinary Wolves, Seth Kantner, F
Straight into Darkness, Faye Kellerman, F
Julia’s Hope, Leisha Kelly, F
The Feast, Margaret Kennedy, F
Cell, Stephen King, F
Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz, F
Oh My Stars, Lora Landvik, F
The Tulip & the Pope, Deborah Larsen, NF 255
Freakonomics, Steven Levitt, NF 330
Tell Me No Lies, Elizabeth Lowell, F
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry, F
A Good Yarn, Debbie Macomber, F
A Walk in My World, Anna Mazer (editor), YA NF 808.83
Urchin of the Riding Stars - Book 1 The Mismantle Chronicles,
M. I. McAllister, Jr/F
The Journal of Callie Wade, Dawn Miller, F
Second Growth, Ruth Moore, F
The Last Hostage,  John J. Nance, F
Potshot, Robert B. Parker, F
Maximum Ride, James Patterson, YA/F
Mary Mary, James Patterson, F
Apple Tree Lean Down, Mary E. Pearce, F
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck, Jr/F
Running the Bulls, Cathie Pelletier, F
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult, F
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew,
Daniel Pool, NF 942
In Our Strange Gardens, Michel Quint, F
Pobby and Dingean, Ben Rice, F
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts, NF 973.3
Murder in the Blue Room, Elliott Roosevelt, F
Noah’s Flood, William Ryan, NF 930
The Girl Who Played Go, Shan Sa, F
The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan, NF 500
Broken Prey, John Sandford, F
The Working Poor, David K. Shipler, F
A Wedding in December, Anita Shreve, F
Three Weeks with My Brother,
Nicholas & Micah Sparks, NF 306.875
East of Eden, John Steinbeck, F
Highwire Moon, Susan Straight, F
A Vast Army of Women, Lynda L. Sudlow, NF 973.7
The Hiding Place, Ten Boom, NF 940.53/T289
Big Stone Gap, Adriana Trigiani, F
Any Bitter Thing, Monica Wood, F
Life At Sixteen: Silent Tears, Cheryl Zach, YA/F

2005 101 Great Summer Reads

1. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Adams, Douglas F  
2. Gob's Grief - Adrian, Chris F  
3. Question Quest - Anthony, Piers Pbk/F 
4. Down the Common - Baer, Ann F 
5. The Winner  - Baldacci, David F  
6. Big Dig - Barnes,Linda F  
7. A Superior Death - Barr, Nevada F 
8. Snowed In - Bartolomeo, Christina F 
9. Nights of Rain and Stars - Binchy, Maeve F
10. The Middle Ages - Bishop, Morris NF 940.1
11. Idyll Banter - Bohjalian, Chris NF 917.43 
12. Before You Know Kindness - Bohjalian, Chris F
13. The Age of Gold - Brands, H.W. NF 979.4 
14. Short and Tall Tales - Braun, Lilian Jackson F  
15. Queen Eleanor - Brooks, Polly Schoyer NF Bio 
16. Dawn Land - Bruchac, Joseph F
17. The Wonderful Thing About Pets - Burghoff, Gary NF 636.088 18
18. Living, Loving & Learning - Buscaglia, Leo NF 158
19. How the Irish Saved Civilization - Cahill, Thomas NF 941.501 
20. Adrift  - Callahan, Steven NF 910.4 
21. Growing Up on the Edge of the World - Callaway, Phil F  
22. The Archer's Tale - Cornwell, Bernard F  
23. The Black Rose - Costain, Thomas B. F  
24. The Conquering Family - Costain, Thomas B. NF 940.03  
25. Pope Joan - Cross, Donna Woolfolk F 
26. Theme Gardens - Damrosch, Barbara NF 635.9
27. The Peaceable Kingdom - De Hartog, Jan F 
28. Diary of a Provincial Lady - Delafield, E. M.  
29. Nightfall - DeMille, Nelson F  
30. Mountain Time - DeVoto, Bemard  
31. Quieter Than Sleep - Dobson, Joanne F  
32. King Arthur - Doherty, Paul C. NF Bio  
33. The Three Musketeers - Dumas, Alexandre F 
34. The Name of the Rose - Ecco, Umberto F 
35. Founding Brothers - Ellis, Joseph J. NF 973.4  
36. Voyageurs - Elphinstone, Margaret F 
37. Peace Like a River - Enger, Leif F 
38. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Erdich, Louise F  
39. Lost! On a Mountain in Maine - Fendler, Don J/NF 796.5  
40. Zlata's Diary - Filipovic, Zlata NF 949.7 
41. Begging for Change - Flake, Sharon YA/F  
42. Indian Creek Chronicles - Fromm, Pete NF 796.5  
43. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Fuller, Alexandra NF 968.91
44. Raising Abel - Gear, Michael F  
45. Life in a Medieval Village - Gies, Frances NF 940.1
46. Princess Bride - Goldman, William F 
47. The Seduction of Water - Goodman, Carol F 
48. Saigon - Grey, Anthony F
49. The Falls - Harper, Karen F
50. The Kite Runner - Hosseini, Kahled F
51. Wilbur Day: hunter, guide and poacher - Ives, Edward D., ed. NF 799
52. Middle Passage - Johnson, Charles F  
53. Hidden Treasures - Keno, Leigh NF 749.2 
54. On Writing - King, Stephen NF 808  
55. Desire Lines - Kline, Christina Baker  
56. 3,000 Mile Garden - Land, Leslee NF  
57. The Iron Lance - Lawhead, Stephen R. F 
58. Prisons & Prisoners - Lytton, Constance NF 324.6
59. Time of Men - MacWilliams, Donald NF 974.1 
60. King Arthur and the Grail Quest - Matthews, John NF 398.22 
61. A Year in Provence - Mayle, Peter NF 914.4
62. Ghost Riders - McCrumb, Sharyn F
63. Memory of Running - McLarty, Ron F 
64. New England Ghosts - McSherry, Frank D. NF 133.1
65. The Center of Everything - Moriarty, Laura F 
66. Brave Kingdom - Murray, Frances F 
67. The Time Traveler's Wife - Niffenegger, Audrey F 
68. Mallory's Oracle - O'Connell, Carol  
69. Women of the Four Winds - Olds, Elizabeth F.
70. Faithful - O'Nan, Stewart NF 796.357
71. My Life in Dog Years - Paulsen, Gary J/NF 636.7
72. A Short History of a Small Place - Pearson, T.R. F
73. Teacher's Funeral - Peck, Richard J/CHPT  
74. Here be Dragons - Penman, Sharon Kaye F  
75. The Confession of Brother Haluin - Peters, Ellis F 
76. Plain Truth - Picoult, Jodi F  
77. The Shadow of the Pomegranate - Plaidy, Jean F 
78. Butterfly House - Preston, Marcia F  
79. Object Lessons - Quindlen, Anna F 
80. Fire from Heaven - Renault, Mary F/paper 
81. Solutions : a ME medical murder mystery - Richards, Dewey F 
82. The Serpent Garden - Riley, Judith Merkle F
83. Gilead - Robinson, Marilynne F  
84. Joan of Arc - Ross, Nancy Wilson NF Bio
85. Straight Man - Russo, Richard F
86. The Forest - Rutherford, Edward F
87. McNally's Secret - Sanders, Lawerence  
88. Ivanhoe - Scott, Sir Walter F 
89. Barbarian Europe - Simons, Gerald NF 940.1
90. Simple Gifts - Sprigg, June NF 289  
91. The Prince and the Pilgrim - Stewart, Mary F  
92. Magna Carta - Swindler, William F. NF 942.03  
93. Queen of Swords - Tarr, Judith F
94. A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court - Twain, Mark F  
95. The Investigation - Uhnak, Dorothy F 
96. Little Earthquakes - Weiner, Jennifer F
97. The Friendly Persuasion - West, Jessamyn F 
98. The Once and Future King - White, T.H. F
99. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit - Wodehouse, P.G.  
100. Snow in August - Hamill, Pete F  
101. Murder with Puffins - Andrews, Donna  F
             



2004 101 Great Summer Reads 

1.  Albom, Mitch,  The Five People You Meet in Heaven   F
2.  Ambrose, Stephen,  The Wild Blue   NF
3.  Asimov, Isaac,  The Union Club Mysteries   F
4.  Barrett, William E.,  The Lillies of the Field   F
5.  Best, Joel,  Damned Lies and Statistics   NF
6.  Beston, Henry,  White Pine and Blue Water   NF
7.  Binchy, Maeve,  Tara Road   F
8.  Breakenridge, William M.,  Helldorado   F
9.  Brown, Dan,  Angels and Demons   F
10.  Bryson, Bill,  A Short History of Nearly Everything   NF
11.  Campbell, Mary Mason,  New England Butt'ry Shelf Almanac
12.  Cannel, Dorothy,  The Thin Woman   F
13.  Carrighar, Sally,  One Day on Beetle Rock   NF
14.  Carroll, Gladys Hasty,  Come with Me Home   F
15.  Carson, Rachel,  Silent Spring   NF
16.  Christy, Agatha,  Masterpieces of Murder   F
17.  Clark, Walter V.,  The Oxbow Incident   F
18.  Coban, Harlan,  One False Move   F
19.  Cook, Thomas H.,  The Chatham School Affair   F
20.  Craven, Margret  I Heard the Owl Call My Name  F
21.  Cross, Donna Woolfolk,  Pope Joan   F
22.  Davis, Thomas,  The Christmas Quilt   F
23.  Deaver, Jeffrey,  The Stone Monkey   F
24.  Dee, Ed,  The Con Man's Daughter   F
25.  Dillard, Annie,  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek   NF
26.  Eliot, George,  Middlemarch   F
27.  Elliott, Charles,  The Potting Shed Papers   NF
28.  Eslick, Tom,  Tracked in the Whites   F
29.  Evans, Richard Paul,  The Carousel   F
30.  Feiler, Bruce,  Abraham: a journey to the heart of three faiths   NF
31.  Fotcj, Janet,  White Oleander   F
32.  Fox, Michael J.,  Lucky Man   F
33.  Frazier, Charles,  Cold Mountain   F
34.  Giles, Janice Holt,  The Kentuckians   F
35.  Gould, John,  Maine's Golden Road: a memoir  NF
36   Granger, Ann,  A Season for Murder    F
37   Gutcheon, Beth,  More Than You Know   
38   Hawking, Stephen, The Universe in a Nutshell  NF
39   Hoffman, Alice,  Blue Diary   F
40   Hopkins,  Nigel,  Go Figure!  F 
41   Hothouse, Henry,  Seeds of Change   
42   Isaacs, Susan,  Compromising Positions   F
43   Jennings, Gary,  Aztec  F
44   Jewett, Sarah Orne,  Country of the Pointed Firs  F
45   Karon, Jan,  A Common Life   F
46   Kidd, Susan Monks,  The Secret Life of Bees  F
47   King, Laurie R.,  Folly  F 
48   King, Stephen,  The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon  F
49   Koontz, Dean,  One Door Away from Heaven    F
50   Lamb, Wally,   I Know This Much Is True  F 
51   Landvik, Lorna,  Patty Jane's House of Curl   F
52   Maas, Peter,  Serpico  F
53   MacKinlay, Kantor,   Andersonville  NF
54   Mason, Bobbie Ann,  Spence and Lila   F
55   Mattingly, Garrett,  The Armada  NF
56   Mayle, Peter,  French Lessons (Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew)   
57   McCullough, David,  John Adams   Bio
58   Mead, Margaret,  Blackberry Winter  Bio 
59   Meltzer, Brad,  Dead Even   F
60   Michaels, Barbara,  Stitches in Time   F
61   Montville, Leigh,  On the Altar of Speed: the fast life and tragic death of Dale Earnhardt  NF
62   More, Thomas,  Utopia  NF
63   Muller, Marcia,   Listen to the Silence  F 
64   Munro, Alice,  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage  F
65   Oufkir, Malika,   Stolen Lives  NF 
66   Paine, Thomas,  Selected Writings of Thomas Paine  NF
67   Patterson,  James,  1st to Die  F
68   Proulx, E. Annie , Shipping News, The  F
69   Reader's Digest , Everyday Life Throughout the Ages   NF
70   Russo, Richard , Empire Falls   F
71   Ryan, Terry , Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio  NF
72   Sanders, Michael , Yard, The: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works  NF
73   Sasson, Jean , Princess   NF
74   Scharz, Christina , Drowning Ruth   F
75   Scottoline, Lisa , Moment of Truth        Audio
76   Shreve, Anita , Sea Glass  F
77   Shreve, Susan Richards , A Country of Strangers  F
78   Sides, Hampton , Ghost Soldiers   NF
79   Singer, Isaac Bashevis , Magician of Lublin, The   Audio
80   Smith, Deborah , Stone Flower Garden   F
81   Smith, Kay Nolte , Watcher, The   F
82   Smith, Margaret Chase , Declaration of Conscience    Bio
83   Smith, Wilbur , Birds of Prey   F
84   Sparks, Nicholas , Bend in the Road  F
85   Steinbeck, John , Of Mice and Men  F
86   Tademy, Lalita , Cane River  F
87   Taubman, Bryna , Lady Cop  NF
88   Taylor, Robert , History of Limington, Maine   NF
89   Terkel, Studs , Coming of Age  NF
90   Tey, Josephine , Daughter of Time, The    F
91   Thayer, Cynthia , Strong for Potatoes   F
92   Updike, John , Rabbit Run  F
93   Uris, Leon , Haj, The  F
94   West, Morris L. , Summer of the Red Wolf   F
95   Whitney, Catherine , Nine and Counting  NF
96   Wilder, Thornton , Heaven's My Destination  F
97   Winn, Marie , Redtails in Love  NF
98   Wolfe, Tom , Bonfire of the Vanities, The   F
99   Woods, Monica  , My Only Story   F
100  Wouk, Herman , Caine Mutiny, The  F
101  Young, Carrie , Nothing to Do But Stay: My Pioneer Mother   NF                          

2003 101 Great Summer Reads

1    Peace River Country   Allen, Ralph   F
 2    Islam Explained   Ben Jelloun, Tehar NF
 3    Irish Girls About Town   Binchy, Maeve, at al  F
 4    The Exorcist   Blatty, Willam Peter  F
 5    A Year of Wonder   Brooks, Geraldine  F
 6    The Good Earth   Buck, Pearl  F
 7    White Doves at Morning   Burke, James Lee  F
 8    The Incredible Journey  Burnford, Sheila  F
 9    Grandma Spins DownEast Yarns   Clough, Blanche Cole bio
 10   Black Hunter   Curwood, James Oliver  F
 11   Blue Nowhere   Deaver, Jeffrey  F
 12   Having our Say   Delany, Sarah & Elizabeth  bio
 13   The Winter Garden Mystery   Dunn, Carola F
 14   Meeting Luciano   Esaki-Smith, Anna  F
 15   All This and Heaven, Too   Field, Rachel  F
 16   Extraordinary Powers   Finder, Joseph  F
 17   Standing in the Rainbow   Flagg, Fannie  F
 18   Mr. Midshipman Hornblower   Forester, C.S.  F
 19   Quiet as a Nun   Fraser, Antonia  F
 20   Killing Me Softly   French, Nicci  F
 21   Brady   Fritz, Jean  F/YA
 22   Three Junes   Glass, Julia  F
 23   The Good Husband   Godwin, Gail  F
 24   Pen Pals   Goldsmith, Olivia  F
 25   Reason for Hope   Goodall, Jane  bio
 26   Taste of Honey   Goudge, Eileen  F
 27   The Lobster Chronicles   Greenlaw, Linda  NF
 28   Home Free   Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe  F
 29   Coastliners   Harris, Joanne  F
 30   A Woman Called Moses   Heidish, Marcy  F
 31   Ravens in Winter   Heinrich, Bernd  NF
 32   Storm Warning   Higgins, Jack  F
 33   Seabiscuit   Hillenbrand, Laura  NF
 34   Pillar of the Sky  Holland, Cecilia   F
 35   Penmarric  Howatch, Susan  F
 36   Journeyer   Jennings, Gary  F
 37   Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory-Present   Judd, Richard W  NF
 38   A Girl Named Zippy   Kimmel, Haven  NF
 39   Adventure Stories   King, Clive  NF
 40   The White   Larsen, Deborah  F
 41   Crow Lake   Lawson, Mary  F
 42   Leaving Eden   LeClaire, Anne D  F
 43   No Certain Rest   Lehrer, James  F
 44   The Honk & Holler Opening Soon    Letts, Billie  F
 45   Road to Omaha   Ludlum, Robert  F
 46   Dream Seekers   Marks, Grace  F
 47   Tara Kane   Markstein, George  F
 48   B. F.'s Daughter   Marquand, John P  F
 49   Christy   Marshall, Catherine  F
 50   Spence & Lila   Mason, Bobbie Ann  F
 51   Gift of Dragons, A   McCaffrey, Ann  F/YA
 52   Love to Love You Baby   Michaels, Kasey  ?
 53   Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, & Marriage   Munro, Alice  F
 54   The Dirty Dozen   Nathanson, E.M.  F
 55   Rascal   North, Sterling  F
 56   The Things they Carried   O'Brien, Tim  F
 57   The Dive from Clausen's Pier   Packer, Ann  F
 58   The Magician's Assistant   Patchett, Anne  F
 59   I Don't Know How She Does It   Pearson, Alison  F
 60   The Angel Maker   Pearson, Ridley  F
 61   In the Heart of the Sea   Philbrick, Nathaniel  NF
 62   Keeping Faith   Picoult, Jodi  F
 63   Deja Dead   Reichs, Kathy  F
 64   Keys to the Street   Rendell, Ruth  F
 65   Winter Harbor   Richmond, Bernice  NF
 66   Genome: the authobiography of a species   Ridley, Matt  NF
 67   The Serpent Garden   Riley, Judith Merkle  F
 68   Mortal Prey   Sandford, John  F
 69   The Lovely Bones   Sebold, Alice  F
 70   She Walks in Beauty   Shankman, Sarah  F
 71   Cluny Brown   Sharp, Margery  F
 72   Lily of the Valley   Shea, Suzanne Strempek  F
 73   Lisbon   Sherwood, Valerie  F
 74   The Far Country   Shute, Nevil  F
 75   Colony   Siddons, Anne Rivers  F
 76   Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress   Sijie, Dai  F
 77   The Horse Soldiers   Sinclair, Harold  F
 78   Horse Heaven   Smiley, Jane  F
 79   Sophie Shapiro's Knitting Book   Smith, Robert K.  F
 80   In the Bleak Mid-Winter   Spencer, Fleming  F
 81   Fire Mountian   Springer, Norman  F
 82   The Souvenir   Steinman, Louise  NF
 83   Music in the Hills   Stevens, D.E.  F
 84   Airs Above the Ground   Stewartm Mary  F
 85   Those Who Love   Stone, Irving  F
 86   A Change of Heart   Sylvia, Claire  NF
 87   Penrod   Tarkington, Booth  F
 88   The Investigation   Uhnak, Dorothy  F
 89   Raptor   Van Gieson, Judith  F
 90   Relative Sins   Victor, Cynthia  F
 91   The Virginia Exiles   Vining, Elizabeth Gray  F
 92   Handsome Women   Wall, Judith Henry  F
 93   Jonathan Dearborn : a novel of the war of 1812   Wallace, Willard  F
 94   Foundation Stone   Warren, Lella  F
 95   Wilderness   Warren, Robert Penn  F
 96   Magnificent Destiny   Wellman, Paul I.  F
 97   Time Was   West, John Foster  F
 98   Good Behavior   Westlake, Donald E.  F
 99   The Once and Future King   White, T.H.  F
 100  Ernie's Ark   Wood, Monica  F
 101 The Caine Mutiny   Wouk, Herman  F