Summer reads '09 NPR's Tom Ashbrook -Jamil Zaidi

2010 Picks from Booksellers' Picks:
Big Machine: A Novel, by Victor LaValle
Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel, by Hilary Thayer Hamann
Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir, by Ander Monson
Welcome to Utopia: Notes from a Small Town, by Karen Valby
Alice I Have Been: A Novel, by Melanie Benjamin

The Kingdom of Ohio, by Matthew Flaming

The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel by Brady Udall

The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake

The Prince of Mist, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Day for Night: A Novel, by Frederick Reiken
The Tortoise and the Hare, by Elizabeth Jenkins
Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, by Kyoko Mori


NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook featured "Summer reads '09," with recommendations from Liesl Schillinger of the New York Times Book Review, Laurie Hertzel of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Jamil Zaidi, manager at the Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Wash.

Jamil's picks:

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

Wonderful World by Javier Calvo

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
The Dark Volume by Gordon Dahlquist

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Drood by Dan Simmons

Wanting by Richard Flanagan
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl