31 books for your fall reading list
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On Tuesday, we asked our guests and listeners to tell us about a great book they read this summer that we should have on our fall reading list.
"The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown
"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" by Anthony Marra
"The Debt" by Randall Robinson
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"Dirty Wars" by Jeremy Scahill
"Dreams From My Father" by Barack Obama
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery
"The Emperor's Children" by Claire Messud
"The Faraway Nearby" by Rebecca Solnit
"Flight Behavior" by Barbara Kingsolver
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home" by Richard Haass
"God's Jury" by Cullen Murphy
"The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
"The Healing" by Jonathan Odell
"The Illusion of Separateness" by Simon Van Booy
"In Other Worlds" by Margaret Atwood
"The Last Life" by Claire Messud
"The Late Homecomer" by Kao Kalia Yang
"Manson" by Jeff Guinn
"Mink River" by Brian Doyle
"Ordinary Grace" by William Kent Krueger
"Red Moon" by Ben Percy
"Return to Oakpine" by Ron Carlson
"River of Shadows" by Rebecca Solnit
"Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts
"The Son" by Philipp Meyer
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
"Transatlantic" by Colum McCann
"Unseen" by Karin Slaughter
"The Wolf Gift" by Anne Rice
"The Woman Upstairs" by Claire Messud