Looking for a Good Summer Read? Here Are Recommendations From Our Readers
By Staff
Aug. 5, 2020: Every summer, we publish a list of books recommended by MHTB readers.
Below is the list for this summer. We have included comments from the recommender if provided. Each book title links to the Womrath Bookshop website, where you will see a description of the book and can purchase it.
Also, the Bronxville Library has a new virtual service. You can join their email list and receive genre-specific reading suggestions, Click here to join their list.
Biography/Memoir/Literary Essays
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Lost in Ghost Town by Dr. Carter Stout
The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by Andre Leon Talley
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton
The Unwinding of a Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson. "A great book about Churchill."
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finke
Untamed by Glennon Doyle. "I really loved it. I could not put it down."
Cookbook
How Not to Die Cookbook" by Dr. Michael Greger.
Non Fiction
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick. Featured in a New York Times list of "Ten New Books We Recommend This Week" (July 23).
One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten. "Although published in 2019, this book should still be on summer reading lists. Weingarten takes a randomly chosen date—in this case December, 28, 1986—to prove his belief that interesting news happens every day."
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies by Gordon Corera
Poetry & Drama
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle, by Dudley Fitts
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Fiction
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.
Apeirogon by Colum McCann. "Not really a summer read but very interesting."
Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray
End Of October by Lawrence Wright
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance: "An interesting read after watching Trump get elected."
Love by Roddy Doyle: "About two friends in Dublin bar."
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd: "About a strong female figure in tough times."
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
The Dutch House. By Ann Patchett
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. "Murder mystery in Agatha Christy style. Total page-turner."
The Lions of 5th Avenue by Fiona Davis. "Recently featured in the New York Post as a Best Book of the Week (July 18) and Publisher's Weekly gave it a starred review."
"The Memory Police" by Yoko Ogawa.
The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro, "Kazuo Ishiguro was the winner of the 2017 Nobel prize. I think The Remains Of The Day is one of the greatest novels I've read in recent years and highly recommend it."
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
The Ticket by Fred Shackelford
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Religion/Spirituality/Science
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida. "Amazing book written by a 13 year old with autism."
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The Library has wonderful resources for adults and children and offers a comfortable and relaxing environment. The Library also houses a fine art collection, consisting principally of Bronxville painters and sculptors.
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