July 12, 2012: Summer Books

The Boston Phoenix's Eugenia Williamson, Boston Globe Ideas Section Deputy Editor and NPR correspondent Amanda Katz, and authors Hank Phillippi Ryan, William Martin, and Nichole Bernier share their best summer reads in fiction, non-fiction, and guilty pleasures.

FICTION

A Million Heavens by John Brandon
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
The Crime of Julian Wells by Thomas H. Cook
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

NON-FICTION

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
We Are Anonymous by Parmy Olson
Superman by Larry Tye
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN'S

Half Magic by Edward Eager
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

CLASSICS

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

GUILTY PLEASURE

Come Home by Lisa Scottoline
Cain at Gettysburg by Ralph Peters
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn