On today's Your Call, we’ll open the lines to get your summer book recommendations. What are your new and old favorites? Adobe Books in San Francisco was recently forced to relocate and Marcus Books is fighting to stay open. What’s the state of independent bookstores? Which one do you support? Join us at 10 or email your recommendations to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What books would you like to add to our reading list? It’s Your Call, with Holly Kernan and you.
Guests:
Christin Evans, owner of Booksmith on Haight, also runs Kepler's Books in Menlow Park
Kevin Hunsanger, co-owner ofGreen Apple Books
Jason Honig, senior librarian at the San Francisco Public Library
Book List:
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (The One City One Book selection for 2013)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Virgin Soul: A Novel by Judy Juanita
Reading Makes You Feel Good by Todd Parr
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Write This Book: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery by Pseudonymous Bosch
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture by Nicholas Basbanes
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
Lionheart: A Novel by Sharon Kay Penman
Shadow on the Crown: A Novel by Patricia Bracewell
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Tales of the Cacophany Society by Carrie Galbraith
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him by David Henry and Joe Henry
In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
The Wayward Moon by Janice Weizman
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Mink River: A Novel by Brian Doyle
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 by Chris Carlsson
Just Kids by Patti Smith
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Web Resources:
Mashable - Ebooks make up 23% of publisher sales
Racked - Despite protest, Adobe Books is closed after 25 years