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Your Call

Your Call: What's on your summer reading list?

Laura Flynn

On the May 31st edition of Your Call, we'll ask Copperfield Books' Sheryl Cotleur and Green Apple Books’ Kevin Hunsanger to share their recommendations for summer reading. What are your favorite books? What are some of the most popular book for the summer? And what are you reading now? Join the conversation, on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.  

Guests

Kevin Hunsanger, co-owner of Green Apple Books 
Sheryl Cotleur, book buyer of Copperfield Books  

Web Resources

Bay Area Book Festival
Green Apple Books

Copperfield'sBooks
Pegasus Books

Books Inc.

The Reading Bug

The Green Arcade

New York Times: 12 New Books We’re Reading This Summer (and 6 Not So New)

Book Recommendations

Barbarian Days:  A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

The Cook Up: A Crack Memoir by D. Watkins 

Cool Don't Live Here No More: A Letter to San Francisco by Tony Robles

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

Dictator: A novel (Ancient Rome Triology) by Robert Harris 

The Diver's  Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida 

Drinking the Devil's Acre: A Love Letter from San Francisco and Her Cocktails by Duggan McDonnell

Dodgers by Bill Beverly 

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner 

The Gods of Tango by Carlonia De Robertis

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

I Hate the Internet by Jatett Kobek

Invisible City by Julia Dahl

Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford

Layla by Celine Keating 

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Run You Down by Julia Dahl 

The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal in Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot  

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue 

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Sympathizer by Viet Tranh Nguyen

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 

Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss

You Can't Win by Jack Black 

Zero-K by Don DeLillo