It’s been several months since we got together as a community and compiled a UPR book list. Public radio listeners are famous as avid readers. We want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or on your device right now? Fellow listeners may not know about it and may love it.
We have avid reader and UPR friend Elaine Thatcher with us in studio and we’ll talk with several booksellers who will tell us what’s coming out this Fall that they’re excited about.
We’ll speak with booksellers Anne Holman from The King’s English Book Shop in Salt Lake City, Andy Nettell from Back of Beyond Books in Moab and Catherine Weller of Weller Book Works in Salt Lake City.
Andy Nettell’s Summer 2016 List
“Ladies of the Canyon” by Lesley Poling-Kempes
“Black River” by S.M. Hulse
“Yellowstone Standoff” by Scott Graham
“Hour of Land-A Personal Topography of America's National Parks” by Terry Tempest Williams
“Canyonlands National Park-Letters From Home” by Terry Tempest Williams
“The Wonder of it All-100 Stories” From the National Park Service
“Being Mortal-Medicine and What Matters in the End” by Atul Gawande
“Red Rock Testimony: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah’s Public Lands” edited by Stephen Trimble, Kristen Johanna Allen
Catherine Weller’s Summer 2016 List
Adults:
“But What if We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present as if it Were the Past” by Chuck Klosterman
“Course of Love: A Novel” by Alain de Botton
“Dried and True: The Magic of Your Dehydrator in 80 Delicious Recipes and Inspiring Techniques” by Sara Dickerman
“Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change” by Andrew Solomon
“Fast to the Table Freezer Cookbook” by Becky Rosenthal
“Gene: An Intimate History” by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War” by Mary Roach
“Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks” by Terry Tempest Williams.
“Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women’s Activism, 1872 – 1959” by Dave Hall
“Maxwell Perkins: Editor of Genius” by A. Scott Berg
“Mirror Thief” by Martin Seay
“On Trails: An Exploration” by Robert Moor
“Paper: Paging Through History” by Mark Kurlansky
Kids:
“Art of the Possible: An Everyday Guide to Politics” by Edward Keenan, art by Julie McLaughlin.
“Echo Echo: Reverse Poems About Greek Myths” by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josee Massee.
“Thank You Book” by Mo Willems
“Thunder Boy Jr.” by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Yuyi Morales
“Wild Robot” by Peter Brown
“Wolf Camp” by Andrea Zuill
“Wolf Hollow” by Lauren Wolk
Anne Holman’s Summer 2016 List
Adult Fiction:
“Miss Jane” Brad Watson
“The Trouble with Goats and Sheep” Joanna Cannon
“The Atomic Weight of Love” Elizabeth J. Church
“Our Souls at Night” by Kent Haruf
“Did You Ever Have a Family” by Bill Clegg
Adult Nonfiction:
“The Hour of Land” by Terry Tempest Williams
“Dinner with Edward” by Isabel Vincent
“The Oregon Trail” by Rinker Buck
“Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren
Kids:
“Summerlost” by Ally Condie
“Hour of the Bees” by Lindsay Eagar
“Wolf Camp” by Andrea Zuill
“Finding Wild” by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Elaine Thatcher’s Summer 2016 List
“A God Against the Gods” by Allen Drury
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
“First Principles and Ordinances: The Fourth Article of Faith in Light of the Temple” by Samuel Brown
“Jane Fairfax” by Joan Aiken
“Devices and Desires” by P.D. James
“The Backslider” by Levi Peterson
“Zelestina Urza in Outer Space” by David Romtzedt
“The Last Camel Died at Noon” by Elizabeth Peters
“My Antonia” by Willa Cather
Books Elaine Thatcher didn’t enjoy, but you might:
“Do, Lord, Remember Me” by George Garrett
“Terra Nostra” by Carlos Fuentes
“Friendship Cake” by Lynne Hinton
“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” by Peter Hedges
Tom Williams’ Summer 2016 List:
“The World of Mr. Mulliner” by P.G. Wodehouse
“The Guns of August” by Barbara Tuchman
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
“At Home in Mitford” by Jan Karron
Listeners’ recommendations:
Mark Brunson
“The Road to Little Dribbling” by Bill Bryson
“The Readers of Broken Recommend” by Katarina Bivald
Joyce Kinkead
“Girl at War” by Sara Novic
Claudia Brilliant
“Washington Hypothesis” by Timothy Ballard
“The Woman Who Defied Kings: Doña Gracia Nasi” by Andrèe Brooks
Kerry Bringhurst
“Riverbend Road” by ReaAnne Thayne
Dan Mabbutt
“Dark Money” by Jane Mayer
“The Gathering Storm” by Winston Churchill
“George Orwell Diaries” edited by Peter Davison
“The Fuhrer: Hitler’s Rise to Power” by Konrad Heiden
“Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power” by Andrew Nagorski
