“What Are You Reading Now?” Book Round-Up
June 7, 2018
During April and May, I had the amazing opportunity to travel around Lackawanna County and ask readers what they were reading at that moment. The program, “What Are You Reading Now?” gave me an opportunity to chat with people just like me – readers who love talking about their books, showing pictures of their libraries at home, and shoving bits of paper with book recommendations into hands and purses. I came away with hundreds of book recommendations, different authors to try, and email addresses from new bookish friends. Below I’ve linked the book recommendations from the Abington discussion and will link the other books from the library discussions in the future. With SummerQuest coming up (be on the lookout at your local library!), now is the perfect time to try out some of these books and get outside your reading comfort zone. As always, happy reading!
All-American Murder: the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murders’ row by James Patterson and Alex Abramovich with Mike Harvkey
The Woman In the Window by A.J. Finn
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
Alice McDermott
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
President Reagan: The Role of A Lifetime by Lou Cannon
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Issacson
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Improvement by Joan Silber
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Middlemarch by George Eliot
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
A Capitol Journey: Reflections on the Press, Politics, and the Making of Public Policy in Pennsylvania by Vincent P. Carocci
The Pigeon Tunnel: stories from my life by John Le Carre
Crow Country by Mark Cocker
