Seattle’s Summer Reading List
"We ranked the top summer eBooks and audiobooks using library checkout records"
"We looked at total July and August checkouts per title over the last 5 years (2016-2020) and ranked the top 10 fiction and nonfiction eBooks for Seattle library patrons. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens crowns the fiction list, while “Educated: A Memoir” by Tara Westover takes the top rank among nonfiction reads."
"We ranked the top summer eBooks and audiobooks using library checkout records"
"We looked at total July and August checkouts per title over the last 5 years (2016-2020) and ranked the top 10 fiction and nonfiction eBooks for Seattle library patrons. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens crowns the fiction list, while “Educated: A Memoir” by Tara Westover takes the top rank among nonfiction reads."
Update 6-1-2021
Zoom meetings are held 2nd and 4th Fridays at 2PM
To join: Email John Walling <ArrowheadResident@Gmail.com>
Book selections
April 2021: Where the Crawdads Sing by Owens, Delia
See: Garden Book Club - Book #1
May 2021: Apple Eater by Annemarieke Tazelaar
See: Garden Book Club - Book #2
June 2021: Requiem in Red by Norma Roth
See: Garden Book Club - Book #3
July 2021: Book #4 Olive Mabel and Me (see books below)
Aug 2021: Book #5 Ordinary Grace (see books below)
Sep 2021: Book #6 The Martian (see books below)
Zoom meetings are held 2nd and 4th Fridays at 2PM
To join: Email John Walling <ArrowheadResident@Gmail.com>
Book selections
April 2021: Where the Crawdads Sing by Owens, Delia
See: Garden Book Club - Book #1
May 2021: Apple Eater by Annemarieke Tazelaar
See: Garden Book Club - Book #2
June 2021: Requiem in Red by Norma Roth
See: Garden Book Club - Book #3
July 2021: Book #4 Olive Mabel and Me (see books below)
Aug 2021: Book #5 Ordinary Grace (see books below)
Sep 2021: Book #6 The Martian (see books below)
PLANNED AND PROPOSED BOOKS
Posted 5-28-2021 > Book #4 July 2021
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs
Hardcover – December 1, 2020
by Andrew Cotter (Author)
Recommended by John W
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs
Hardcover – December 1, 2020
by Andrew Cotter (Author)
Recommended by John W
Posted 6-14-2021 > Book #5 August 2021
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
I have a great book to recommend - it’s called “Ordinary Grace” and it has won 5 book club awards. The only thing is that it costs $12.99 on Amazon currently. Maybe I could fine a better price - or we’ll wait until the Bookmobile finds another lower price.
It is by William Kent Krueger and was written in 2013.
It got an Edgar award and 4 other awards: I was really impressed when I read it. The author is from Oregon.
Recommended by Cynthia M
Amazon
Seattle Public Library
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
I have a great book to recommend - it’s called “Ordinary Grace” and it has won 5 book club awards. The only thing is that it costs $12.99 on Amazon currently. Maybe I could fine a better price - or we’ll wait until the Bookmobile finds another lower price.
It is by William Kent Krueger and was written in 2013.
It got an Edgar award and 4 other awards: I was really impressed when I read it. The author is from Oregon.
Recommended by Cynthia M
Amazon
Seattle Public Library
Posted 3-24-2021 > Book #6 September 2021
The Martian by Andy Weir
The SPL currently has 12 copies of the book. Five are available. They also have 7 large print books available, 164 ebooks, and 11 audio books available right now. So I think it's a viable candidate for consideration.
Recommended by Billie O.
The Martian by Andy Weir
The SPL currently has 12 copies of the book. Five are available. They also have 7 large print books available, 164 ebooks, and 11 audio books available right now. So I think it's a viable candidate for consideration.
Recommended by Billie O.
Posted 7-9-2021
All the Flowers in Paris
by Sarah Jio
https://sarahjio.com/the-books/
Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present—for readers of Sarah’s Key and The Nightingale.
Amazon
Seattle Public Library
All the Flowers in Paris
by Sarah Jio
https://sarahjio.com/the-books/
Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present—for readers of Sarah’s Key and The Nightingale.
Amazon
Seattle Public Library
Posted 5-28-2021
Midnight in Chernobyl:
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019)
by Adam Higginbotham
A history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986. It won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2020. Higginbotham spent more than a decade interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documents from the disaster including some that were recently declassified. Higginbotham considers it the first English-language account that is close to the truth i.e. free of Soviet propaganda.
Amazon Paperback & Kindle:
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Chernobyl-Greatest-Nuclear-Disaster/dp/1501134639/
Amazon Audiobook:
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-in-Chernobyl-audiobook/dp/B07GFRZVZ8/
SPL Catalog:
https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3437529030
Recommended by Norma R.
Midnight in Chernobyl:
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019)
by Adam Higginbotham
A history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986. It won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2020. Higginbotham spent more than a decade interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documents from the disaster including some that were recently declassified. Higginbotham considers it the first English-language account that is close to the truth i.e. free of Soviet propaganda.
Amazon Paperback & Kindle:
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Chernobyl-Greatest-Nuclear-Disaster/dp/1501134639/
Amazon Audiobook:
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-in-Chernobyl-audiobook/dp/B07GFRZVZ8/
SPL Catalog:
https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3437529030
Recommended by Norma R.
Posted 4-4-2021
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama.
Currently only about 8 regular books available at SPL, none of them large print and or e-books. But that might change by the time we get to it. I have a copy, myself, but haven't read it. It was given to me. This would give me a reason to pull it out.
Recommended by Billie O.
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama.
Currently only about 8 regular books available at SPL, none of them large print and or e-books. But that might change by the time we get to it. I have a copy, myself, but haven't read it. It was given to me. This would give me a reason to pull it out.
Recommended by Billie O.
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