Faith Sullivan's Summer Reading List
June 19, 2003

Summer is a time for reading an escapist novel or catching up with books you've always meant to read but haven't had time to read. Faith Sullivan, Minnesota novelist and author of The Cape Ann and The Empress of One, offers some recommendations of new and older books to read on the porch, on the airplane, and in the sun.

Fiction
By Alexander McCall Smith:
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
• Morality for Beautiful Girls
• Tears of the Giraffe

By Paula Fox:
• Desperate Characters
• The Widow's Children

By Alan Bennett:
• The Clothes They Stood Up In
• The Lady in the Van

By Ann Patchett
• The Patron Saint of Liars
• Bel Canto

More:
• Atonement, Ian McEwan
• Three Junes, Julia Glass
• Life of Pi, Yann Martel
• DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
• Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott
• Evenings at Five, Gail Godwin
• Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
• Unless, Carol Shields
• Naked Prey, John Sanford
• Executive Power, Vince Flynn
• Justice Hall, Laurie King

Old Favorites
By E.M. Forster:
• Howard's End
• A Passage to India
• A Room with a View

By Graham Greene:
• The Quiet American
• The Power and the Glory

By John Steinbeck:
• The Grapes of Wrath
• East of Eden
• The Red Pony

By Homer
• The Odyssey
• The Illiad (trans. Robert Fagels)

More:
• Any book of short stories by Anton Chekov
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
• The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
• The Haunting, Shirley Jackson
• Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
• A Separate Peace, John Knowles
• Don Quixote, Cervantes
• Black Boy, Richard Wright
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
• A Farewell to Arms, John Hemingway
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Intruder in the Dust, William Faulkner

Anthologies
• Tennis and Meaning of Life, ed. Jay Jennings
• Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, ed. David Remnick
• Best Short Stories of the Century, ed. John Updike

Nonfiction
By Hilary Spurling:
• Flights of Passage
• The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

More:
• Living History, Hilary Rodham Clinton
• Marching Home, Kevin Coyne
• Teammates, David Halberstam
• Jarhead, Anthony Swofford
• I Should be Extremely Happy in Your Company, Brian Hall
• Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
• Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
• Beyond Belief, Elaine Pagels
• Growing Seasons, Samuel Hynes
• Our Final Hour: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century on Earth and Beyond, Martin Rees
• The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Jon Katz

And... under the "Books I Love Though I Know They're Not Great Literature" category:
• Cannery Row, John Steinbeck