State of Affairs
2007 Summer Reading List

Kelly Estep (Carmichael's Bookstore):

• "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" - Barbara Kingsolver
• "Bangkok Haunts" - John Burdett
• "Suite Francaise" - Irene Nemirovsky

Robert Gieszl (Louisville Free Public Library):

• "Napoleon's Pyramids" - William Dietrich
• "Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution" - Ruth Scurr
• "Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway" - Witold Rybczynski

Randy Smith (Destinations Booksellers):

• "Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America" - Andrew Ferguson
• "Requiem for an Assassin" - Barry Eisler
• "The Book of Air and Shadows" - Michael Gruber

Deanna Tinsley’s (Zora Neale Hurston Reading Group):

• "Blood Done Sign My Name" - Timothy Tyson
• "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive" - Alexander McCall Smith
• "Red River" - Lalita Tademy

Caller Suggestions and Additional Guest Picks

• "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• "Gems, Germs & Steel" - Jared Diamond
• "The Epicenter" - Joel C. Rosenberg
• "The Road" – Cormac McCarthy
• "Last WitchFinder" – James Morrow
• "On Chesil Beach" – Ian McEwen
• "Small Island" – Andrea Levy
• "The Time Traveler’s Wife" - Audrey Niffenegger
• "Requiem for an Assassin" - Barry Eisler
• "The Man in my Basement" – Walter Mosely
• "Anna Karenina" - Leo Tolstoy
• "Bourne Identity" - Robert Ludlum
• "Diana Gabaldon" - Outlander Series
• "Bowling Alone" - Robert Putnam
• "Kindness of Strangers" - Lonely Planet Books
• "Don’t You Remember?" - George Ella Lyon
• "Lean Mean Thirteen" - Janet Evanovich
• "A Thousand Splendid Suns" – Khaled Hosseini
• "The World Without Us" - Alan Weisman
• "The DaVinci Code" - Dan Brown
• "Hadrian’s Wall and Scourge of God" - William Dietrich