A List of Summer Reading Suggestions

At our summer BBQ and pot-luck this summer we all contributed the titles and brief descriptions of books we had read recently, enjoyed and wished to share. Fortunately Diane took notes, added the names of the authors and made this list:

Name	Book Title/Author	Description
Doris	Brain on Fire-Susannah Cahalan	A memoir describing a woman's struggle to recapture her identity
	The Art of Racing in the Rain-Garth Stein	Narrated from the Dog's point of view- philosophical
Anne	Louise Penny -Trilogy of books and A Great Reckoning	Mysteries from a reknowned Canadian author, newest title: A Great Reckoning
Diane	I Let You Go- Claire MacIntosh	A cunning thriller with lots of plot twists
	Barkskins- Annie Proulx	Two penniless Frenchmen arrive in New France, 1693- plot follows 300 years of them and descendants
	She's not There- Joy Fielding	A child disappears and years later a call from a woman who claims to be that girl
	The Swans of Fifth Avenue- Melanie Benjamin	New York High Society in the 1960's - the arrival of Truman Capote into the mix
Marie	The Canterbury Sisters-Kim Wright	A Woman's Pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral and the women she meets along the way
	The Sherlock Holmes books
Marie Therese	Belcanto-Ann Patchett	A hostage situation evolves into a romantic and beautiful plotline
	The Day I started to Live-translation from French
Gisele	Weird Sisters-Eleanor Brown	three sisters named after Shakespearean characters return home to deal with life's problems/answers
Tom	Sutton- J R Moehringer	A novel based o the life of Willy Sutton -a master thief rooted for by the public
	The Philosophical Breakfast Club-Laura Snyder	Four remarkable young men who transformed the meaning of science in a modern world
Terry	Elon Musk biography	The brilliant engineer, inventor and explorer
	Sweetland-Michael Crummey	One man's refusal to relocate from his Newfoundland island
Donna	Left Neglected- Lisa Genoa	A supermom/business exec's journey to recovery after a brain injuring accident
	An Astronomer's Guide to Life on Earth-Chris Hadfield	Chris Hadfield's stories of life as an astronaut
Ginette	The World Until Yesterday- Jared Diamond	explores what western societies can learn from traditional societies, based on studies in New Guinea