Editor’s Choice for Summer Reading from Arnold Richards

Barbara Kafka, Microwave Gourmet, New York: William Morrow, 1998.

Barbara Kafka, Vegetable Love, New York: Artisan, 2005. 

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, New York: Picador, 2001.  

Russsell Shorto The Island at the Center of the World    2008 Vintage.

Oliver Sachs  Musicophilia:  Tales of Music and the Brain 2007 Knopf.

Daniel J Levitin  This is Your Brain on Music:  The Science of Human Obsession  2007 Penguin.

Jhumpa Lahari  Unaccostomed Earth  2008 Knopf.

Jennifer Lee  The Fortune Cookie Chronicles:  Adventures in the World of Chinese Food 2008 Twelve.

David Adelman  A Shattered Peace  Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay 2008, Wiley.

 Haruki Murakami  Kafka on the Shore 2005 Knopf.

 Haruki Murakami  After Dark 2007 Vintage.

Anne Dillard The Maytrees   2007, Harper.

Francine Prose Reading Like A Writer 2006,   Harper.

A. D. Nuttall Shakespeare the Thinker  2007, Yale.