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Summer Reading List

By Christopher Hudgens

Summer is a time for sitting out in the sun with a good book. In honor of the warmer weather, we thought we’d share our intended Summer Reading Lists. Email us with your favorite summer reads at theparlorreads@gmail.com

Terri’s Summer Reading:
Weight, Jeannette Winterson
Don Quixote, Cervantes
History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
Religion without Belief, Jean Petrolle
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
Secret of Scent, Luca Turin
The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq

Caroline’s Summer Reading:
Halls of Fame, John D’Agata
The Vagabond, Collette
The Illiad, Homer (Richard Lattimore translation)
Three Tales, Gustav Flaubert
What You Call Winter, Nalini Jones
Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A
Dialectical-Constructivist View, Irwin Z. Hoffman
Somebody in Boots, Nelson Algren
Live Girls, Beth Nugent
The Monk, Matthew Lewis
The Shaman from Elko, Edited by Garth Hill

Joanna’s Summer Reading:
Someone to Run With, David Grossman
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, Diane Ackerman
Joe College/The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta
Audition, Barbara Walters (I can’t help it, I’m curious)
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk
Run, Ann Patchett
The Luxe, Anna Godbersen
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer

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