Summer Reading - Howard County Library System

814.6H
by Justin Halpern
I Suck at Girls
Summer Reading
942.055W
The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate
History of Elizabeth’s Court by Anna Whitelock
973.099T
What Jefferson Read, Ike
Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of
Popular Culture in the White House by Tevi
Troy
Nonfiction: Biographies
B BLOOM
Romance Is My Day Job:
A Memoir of Finding Love at Last by Patience
Bloom
B CLARK D
Empty Mansions: The
Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the
Spending of a Great American Fortune
by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
B CORRIGAN
by Kelly Corrigan
Glitter and Glue
B JENKINS His Ownself: A SemiMemoir by Dan Jenkins
B NESS P
Eliot Ness: The Rise and
Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry
B SHTEYNGART
Little Failure: A Memoir
by Gary Shteyngart
Howard County Library System
Administrative Offices
6600 Cradlerock Way
Columbia, MD 21045
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2014
Fiction: Mysteries & Thrillers
Isabel Allende
Ripper
C. J. Box Stone Cold
Jørgen Brekke
Where Monsters Dwell
Harry Dolan
The Last Dead Girl
Elizabeth George Just One Evil Act
Thomas Christopher Greene
The Headmaster’s Wife
John Grisham
Sycamore Row
Amy Gail Hansen
The Butterfly Sister
Robert Harris
An Officer and a Spy
Greg Iles
Natchez Burning
Pierre Lemaître
Alex
Denise Mina
The Red Road
T. T. Monday
The Setup Man
Gail Oust
Rosemary and Crime
Kelly Parsons
Doing Harm
Chris Pavone
The Accident
Lynn Shepherd
A Fatal Likeness
Complete an entry form for each book you read or listen
to this summer (May 19 - Aug 31) to be eligible for monthly
prize drawings and a systemwide grand prize package that
includes an iPad mini. Entry forms available at each branch.
Sponsored by Friends of Howard County Library.
Fiction: Relationships
Diana Gabaldon
Written in My Own Heart’s Blood
Stephen King
Mr. Mercedes
Dean Koontz
Innocence
John Ringo
Under a Graveyard Sky
Joe Schreiber
Lockdown
Nalini Singh
Heart of Obsidian
Marcus Burke
Team Seven
Nickolas Butler
Shotgun Lovesongs
Toby Devens
Happy Any Day Now
Sebastian Faulks
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
Fannie Flagg
The All-Girl Filling Station’s
Last Reunion
Elizabeth Kelly
The Last Summer of the
Camperdowns
Jeff VanderMeer
Annihilation
Helene Wecker
The Golem and the Jinni
Julia MacDonnell
Mimi Malloy, At Last!
Andy Weir
The Martian
Valerie Martin
The Ghost of the Mary
Celeste
Jaye Wells
Dirty Magic
Felicia Mason
Hidden Riches
Nonfiction
J. J. Murray You Give Good Love
Robin Oliveira
I Always Loved You: A Story
of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas
Suzetta Perkins
In My Rearview Mirror
Matthew Quick The Good Luck of Right Now
Susan Rieger
The Divorce Papers
Renée Rosen
Dollface: A Novel of the
Roaring Twenties
Sharon Sala
The Curl Up & Dye
Graeme C. Simsion
The Rosie Project
Michelle Wildgen
Bread and Butter
F WOM
A Woman’s Revenge
Fiction: Speculative
Sarah Addison Allen Lost Lake
Kelley Armstrong
Omens
Emily Croy Barker
The Thinking Woman’s Guide
to Real Magic
Pierce Brown
Red Rising
Rachel Cantor
A Highly Unlikely Scenario,
or, a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World
John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard
Conquest: The Chronicles of
the Invaders
359.984W
Code Name: Johnny
Walker: The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi
Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S.
Navy SEALs by Johnny Walker
364.1523L
Little Demon in the
City of Light: A True Story of Murder and
Mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris by Steven
Levingston
364.1523S
The Mad Sculptor: The
Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook
the Nation by Harold Schechter
576.84K
The Sixth Extinction: An
Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 590H
Unlikely Loves: 43
Heartwarming True Stories from the Animal
Kingdom by Jennifer S. Holland
641.8653R
Robicelli’s: A Love Story,
with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up
Recipes by Allison and Matt Robicelli
741.59B
Hyperbole and a Half:
Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping
Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That
Happened by Allie Brosh
741.59I
Why Grizzly Bears
Should Wear Underpants by Matthew Inman
782.42166A Please Be with Me: A Song for
My Father, Duane Allman by Galadrielle Allman
814.6G
by Jim Gaffigan
Dad Is Fat