2017 Nantucket Book Festival Reading List

Dark at the Crossing: A novel By Elliot Ackerman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781101947371
Published: Knopf - January 24th, 2017

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

“Transports readers into a world few Americans know” —Washington Post


A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.


Speak: (National Book Award Finalist) By Laurie Halse Anderson Cover Image
$10.99
ISBN: 9780312674397
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Published: Square Fish - May 10th, 2011

The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice.


The Seeds of America Trilogy (Boxed Set): Chains; Forge; Ashes By Laurie Halse Anderson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781481486781
Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - October 18th, 2016

What would you risk to be free?

It’s 1776 and Isabel, Curzon, and Ruth have only ever known life as slaves. But now the young country of America is in turmoil—there are whisperings, then cries, of freedom from England spreading like fire, and with it is a whole new type of danger.


Bolivar: American Liberator By Marie Arana Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9781439110201
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 8th, 2014

A brilliant biography that “reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the famous South American general and statesman Simón Bolívar.

SIMÓN BOLÍ VAR —El Libertador—freed six countries from Spanish rule and is still the most re


American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood By Marie Arana Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780385319638
Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - May 28th, 2002

In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years.


Here Comes the Sun: A Novel By Nicole Dennis-Benn Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781631491764
Published: Liveright - July 5th, 2016

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award, and Finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award


A Paris Apartment: A Novel By Michelle Gable Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250067777
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - June 30th, 2015

The New York Times Best Seller!

Based on the fascinating true story of a treasure-stocked Parisian apartment opened for the first time in seventy years.


The Book of Summer: A Novel By Michelle Gable Cover Image
$34.99
ISBN: 9781250070623
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Published: St. Martin's Press - May 9th, 2017

“Michelle Gable has moved in on [Elin] Hilderbrand’s home turf with a humorous and smartly written story of two generations of love and vacations.” —Wall Street Journal

From New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment comes a novel about summer in Nantucket and a guestbook that reveals family secrets.


Time Travel: A History By James Gleick Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307908797
Published: Pantheon - September 27th, 2016

“A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” The Millions
“A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” Washington Post
“A thrilling journey of ideas.” Boston Globe


Fish in a Tree By Lynda Mullaly Hunt Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780399162596
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - February 5th, 2015

A New York Times Bestseller!

The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.
 


The Porcupine of Truth By Bill Konigsberg Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781338032451
Published: Scholastic Inc. - August 30th, 2016

The author of Openly Straight returns with an epic road trip involving family history, gay history, the girlfriend our hero can't have, the grandfather he never knew, and the Porcupine of Truth

The Stonewall Book Award-winning novel from the author of Openly Straight and Honestly Ben!"Words like 'brilliant' are so overused when praising novels--so I won't use th


Honestly Ben By Bill Konigsberg Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780545858267
Published: Arthur A. Levine Books - March 28th, 2017

In the companion to Openly Straight, Ben confronts pressure at school, repression at home, and his passion for two very different people in figuring out what it takes to be Honestly Ben.

The companion to the award-winning Openly Straight, called "remarkable...deeply satisfying and as honest as its appealing protagonist" (Booklist).


An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness By Kay Redfield Jamison Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780679763307
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Published: Vintage - January 14th, 1997

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. 


The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir By Betsy Lerner Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062354464
Published: Harper - May 3rd, 2016

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.


The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense By Daniel Menaker, Roz Chast (Illustrator), Billy Collins (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Daniel Menaker, Roz Chast (Illustrator), Billy Collins (Foreword by)
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ISBN: 9780544800632
Published: Mariner Books - October 18th, 2016

Inspired by his tenure at The New Yorker, this collection of comical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English comes with commentary by the author, illustrations by Roz Chast, and a foreword from Billy Collins.

During his time at The New Yorker, Daniel Menaker happened across a superb spelling mistake: “The zebras were gra


My Mistake By Daniel Menaker Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780544334533
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Published: Mariner Books - November 4th, 2014

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
 
“At the epicenter of literary New York, Menaker is an irreverent guide to the publishing world’s inner workings . . .


Beach House for Rent (The Beach House) By Mary Alice Monroe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781501125461
Published: Gallery Books - June 20th, 2017

New York Times Bestseller!

Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house.

When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it’s a win-win by any standard: Cara’s gener


The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road By Finn Murphy Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393608717
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 6th, 2017

A long-haul mover’s rollicking account of life out on the Big Slab.


Small Great Things: A Novel By Jodi Picoult Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780345544957
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Published: Ballantine Books - October 11th, 2016

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE


At the Foundling Hospital: Poems By Robert Pinsky Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374158118
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 4th, 2016

“Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did . . . But among the many writers who have come of age in our fin de siècle, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky.” —James Longenbach, The Nation


On My Own By Diane Rehm Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781101875285
Published: Knopf - February 2nd, 2016

In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson’s) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him.


Delicious!: A Novel By Ruth Reichl Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780812982022
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - May 12th, 2015

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reichl’s compulsively readable novel is a treat for anyone who loves a warm, character-packed tale—a delectable mix of flavor, fantasy, and emotional comfort food.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
 


My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life: A Cookbook By Ruth Reichl Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9781400069989
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Published: Random House - September 29th, 2015

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved food critic and author of Tender at the Bone explores her path to healing through 136 delectable recipes.


Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel By Carl Safina Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9781250094599
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Published: Picador - July 12th, 2016

I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?


Books for Living By Will Schwalbe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780385353540
Published: Knopf - December 27th, 2016

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity.


Ice Cream Summer By Peter Sís, Peter Sís (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Peter Sís, Peter Sís (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9780545731614
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Published: Scholastic Press - May 26th, 2015

*"Sís delivers an encomium to summer, to the power of learning, and to that beloved, creamy-cold treat." --Kirkus, starred reviewSavor summer anytime with this breezy, sweet and irresistible picture book from Hans Christian Anderson Award winner and three-time Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís!Dear Grandpa,Summer is going well. I am very busy.


The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a


Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 By Kevin Young Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780385351508
Published: Knopf - February 2nd, 2016

Longlisted for the National Book Award

A rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with “B sides” and “bonus tracks” from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet.