Looking for a book to bring on your summer vacation? Below is the official 2017 The Sound of Ideas Summer Reading List comprised of smart, fun and suspenseful recommendations from our team, our listeners and a panel of book lovers. Add your own recommendations in the comments!
The Sound of Ideas Summer Reading List
Books The Sound of Ideas team recommends:
I Will Find You by Joanna Connors
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman
The Cultural Matrix - Understanding Black Youth by Orlando Patterson
Boycotts Bussing and Beyond: The History and Implications of School Desegregation - James L. Hardiman, Donna McIntyre Whyte, Ronnie A. Dunn, Mittie Davis Jones
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
100 Things to Do in Cleveland Before You Die by Nikki Delamotte
Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data: Law and Policy by Sharona Hoffman
How to Speak Midwestern by Edward McClelland
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Uplifting Leaders* (Who Happen to Be Women) by Margie Flynn & Barbara Brown
Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon by Tom & Kelley French
Locking Up Own Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work by Dave Isay
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Grocery – The Buying And Selling Of Food In America by Michael Ruhlman
Books our panel of book lovers recommends:
-A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
-Cast the First Stone by James Ziskin
- A Welcome Murder by Robin Yocum
-Based on a True Story by Delphine De Vigan
- Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Rica
-Rise to Dark by Michael Koryta
-Dance of the Broken by Jacob Grovey
-The works of Russell Atkins
-Seriously...What Am I Doing Here?: The Adventures of a Wondering and Wandering Gay Jew by Ken Schneck
-Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
- The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir by Peter Gajdics
-Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living by Tim Bauerschmidt
-Everything is Awful and You're a Terrible Person by Daniel Zomparelli
-Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
-Hunger by Roxane Gay
-A Separation by Katie Kitamura
-Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
-I Will Find You by Joanna Connors
-Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
-Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar
-The works of Isabel Allende
Books our listeners recommend:
Back Over There: One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War by Richard Rubin
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
The Lost Girls by Heather Young
RGB Workout by Bryant Johnson
Thank you for being late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas Friedman
The Punch Escrow by Tal Klein
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Fifties by David Halberstam
Kennedy and King by Steven Livingston
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley
My Marathon, Frank Shorter, Refections in a Gold Medal Life by Mark Brandt
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Tears We Cannot Stop By Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Can You Hear Me Now? By Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
I'm Single, So What by Dr. Heather E. Burton
The True Story for God's Glory by Siohvaughn Funches-Wade
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Golden Prey by John Sanford
The Fix by David Baldacci
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
A Great Big Lunch by Jim Harrison
Nevertheless by Alec Baldwin
Shattered by Jonathan Allen
Nixon: A Life by Jonathan Aitken
Dark Money by Jane Mayer
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses by Meredith Wadman
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Dreamland by Sam Quinones
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
Tune In, The Beatles: All These Years by Mark Lewisohn
Millionaire Success Habits by Dean Graziosi
Windswept House, A Vatican Novel by Malachi Martin
Revolution by Russell Brand
Resisting happiness by Matthew Kelly
Under the Bleachers by Seymour Butz
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy by Richard E. Ocejo
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in The Twilight Zone by Mark Dawidziak
Himself A Novel By Jess Kidd
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women” by Cari Lynn and Susan Burton
The Glory and the Dream a Narrative History of America by William Manchester
My American Journey by Colin Powell
A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
