June was a reading month, with barely any carryovers into July. The month has everything from crime, sci-fi and literary fiction, mixed with biography and science:
- One of the few crime writers to maintain form over the very long run, John Harvey has a new one, Far Cry
- The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
- Man Gone Down, the Impac winner from Michael Thomas
- Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadow begins in Nagasaki . . .
- Lighter stuff for last weekend’s camping, Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog by Robert P. Smith
- Oliver Morton’s everyman account of photosynthesis, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
- The People of the Book by that fabulous novelist Geraldine Brooks
- Crazy science fiction – Eric Garcia’s The Repossession Mambo
- Steven Amsterdam’s stories of distopia, Things We Didn’t See Coming
- The book I’m most going to enjoy (I hope, I hope), The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker