Thursday, June 09, 2005

Even I Haven't Scanned Them All

Ran across this recommended reading list Web site for summer and thought you might enjoy making your own lists.

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Sun Valley Writers' Conference 2005 Suggested Summer Reading List

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's summer reading recommendations

Associated Press: bookseller recommendations

NPR Best in Spy Fiction

Dolph Tillotson's (Galveston County Daily News) summer reading list

Jean Peerenboom's (Green Bay Press-Gazette) summer reading list

Ellen Goodman's summer reading list

ALA's Recommended Reading for all ages

UC Berkeley's 2005 Freshman Summer Reading List: Great Discoveries, Voyages, and Adventures (press release)

UC Berkeley Past Summer Reading Lists: 2004: Now That's Funny, 2002: Banned Books, and 1989: Selected by the Chairs of Various Departments

Media and Democracy Summer Reading List

The Washington Post's

New York Daily News' 10 books people will be talking about this summer

San Francisco Chronicle's books to be published this summer

USA Today's 10 cool reads, 5 sleepers, and 5 books with movies coming out this summer.

Books on Investing

JPMorgan Private Bank Sixth Annual Summer Reading List

For un-adults:

NPR's Adventures to Read All Through the Summer

The Association of Library Service to Children's All-Time Classics parents and children can read together

The ALSC's list of reading lists

YALSA's 2005 Alex Awards for ten adult books that will appeal to teen readers (all years)

Plus:

the canonical list of Alternate Histories

Syllabi and Other Course Materials for Literature Courses

Whichbook book recommender

Book Adventure will generate a list of book recommendations for grades K - 8.

Amazon's lists of Award winning books, from the Booker and the Pulitzer to the Bram Stoker and the Nebula to the Newbery and the Printz

The San Francisco Chronicle's 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century written in English about -- or by an author from -- the Western United States (1999)

and of course, Marylaine's list of Books Too Good to Put Down

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