Summer reading list, 2001
with Brad Zellar and Faith Sullivan
May 2001

Brad Zellar's summer Picks
Brad Zellar is co-owner of Rag and Bone Books, a used bookstore in Minneapolis that also sells some new books.
• Roads: Driving America's Great Highways, Larry McMurtry
• The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
• Bad News, Donald Westlake
• Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawkes
• In the Company of Angels, N.N. Kelby
• The Insult, Rupert Thomson
• Rag & Bone, Michael Nava
• The Social Life of Dogs: The Grace of Canine Company, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• The Music at Long Verney: Short Stories, Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Restraint of Beasts, Magnus Mills
• Fixer Chao, Han Ong
• Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams—The Early Years, Gary Giddins
• Secret Love, Bart Schneider
• The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream, Steve Fainaru and Ray Sanchez
• Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America, a Memoir by the Other Son, Kent Walker and Mark Schone the novels of Cornell Woolrich

Faith Sullivan's summer Picks
Faith Sullivan is the author of The Cape Ann and The Empress of One, and her latest book is What A Woman Must Do.

Books to read to the sick
• Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
• The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett
• Heidi, by Johanna Spyri
• Ann of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
• Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis
• Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Kid from Thompkinsville, by John R. Tunis
• anything by Fannie Flagg
• The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
• Nancy Drew (older versions), by Carolyn Keen

Book club books
• The Map of Love (a Booker Prize finalist), by Ahdaf Soueif
• The Weight of All Things, by Sandra Benitez
• House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III
• Dressing up for the Carnival, by Carol Shields
• Anil's Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje
• Passionate Minds, by Claudia Roth Pierpont
• Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund
• Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingslover
• Amy and Isabelle, by Elizabeth Strout
• The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty
• A Pale View of Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
• The Virgin of Bennington, by Kathleen Norris
• Aiding and Abetting, by Muriel Spark
• In the Company of Angels, by Nicole Kelby

Books for Mother's Day
• Comfort Me With Apples, by Ruth Reichl
• Travel books are great, if a trip is planned—even one in the distant future.
• A bundle of mysteries

• Laurie King, starting with The Bee Keeper's Apprentice
• Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver mysteries
• anything by Ruth Rendall
• M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin series
• Sharon McCrumb
• Or a bundle of mysteries by local writers

Books for Father's Day
• a bundle of mysteries
• Travel books if a trip is planned, even in the distant future
• Gertude and Claudius, by John Updike (not sure)
• Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams—The Early Years: 1903-1940, by Gary Giddins
• The poetry of Seamus Heaney
• An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw
• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, by Peter Hessler
• Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and Sixty Minutes in Television, by Don Hewitt
• The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and The Cult of Human Power, by Travis Culley

Just because you ought to
• A Child's Christmas, by Dylan Thomas
• A Home At the End of the World, by Michael Cunningham
• Kristin Lavransdatter, by Undset
• The Forsyte Saga, by Galesworthy
• something by Edith Wharton
• No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• a copy of a literary quarterly

Miscellaneous
• Walking on Alligators, by Susan Saughnessy
vBeyond the Writers' Workshop, Carol Bly
• Southwest Minnesota: The Land and the People, by Joseph Amato, editor