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You shared your favorite books of summer with us here and called in with more during the show. Below are today's recommendations:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Žižek
behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Double Cross by Ben Macintyre
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Escaping North Korea by Mike Kim
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Juliet in August in Dianne Warren
Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams
Canada by Richard Ford
Against the Wind and Tide by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Broken Harbor by Tana French
The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey
The Litigators by John Grisham
Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Libriomancer by Jim Hines
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Swim: Why We Love the Water by Lynn Sherr
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
At Home by Bill Bryson
Salvage the Bones By Parul Sehgal
The Red Chamber by Pauline Chen
Mudbound by HIllary Jordan
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Warmth of Other Sons by Isabel Wilkerson
Man of War by Charlie Schroder
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen Carter
Retromania: pop culture's addiction to its own past by Simon Reynolds
"Bright sided" and "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
NW by Zadie Smith
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Election!: A Kid's Guide to Picking Our President by Dan Gutman