Oprah's Summer Book Picks

Some of Oprah's choices include:

• Kings of the Earth by John Clinch
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
• Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
• Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
• If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black
• My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
• The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse
• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
• Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
• Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
• The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
• What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman
• Father of the Rain by Lily King
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• American Music by Jane Mendelsohn
• The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek
• Someone Will Be With You Shortly by Lisa Kogan
• How Did You Get This Number? by Sloane Crosley

More Hot Summer Titles:

• The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
• The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
• The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor

Hate to Wait? I also recommend these slightly older, readily available, equally delightful titles for your Summer Pleasure Reading!

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout