CNN's Summer Reads

Check out CNN's choices for the Top 10 Summer Reads.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire by Sarah Ellison

Henry Clay: The Essential American by David Heidler

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely

The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern by Victor Davis Hanson

Best of June

Check out Amazon's selections for the Best Books of the Month.  The spotlight selection for June is The Passage by Justin Cronin.  The Passage appears to be this summer's runaway hit, garnering a lot of press attention and turning up on several summer reading lists:

NPR's Vampire Stories: Two New Twists on an Old Nemesis
Oprah's 2010 Summer Reading List
June 2010 Indie Next List

More Summer Reading!

The summer reading lists keep on coming!  Elle magazine offers Top 10 Summer Books for 2010.  And, in a nice change of pace, Kevin Hatch gives us Scifi for Summer Reading.

Jose Saramago

Nobel Prize-wining author Jose Saramago, known for his surreal fantasies, died last week at the age of 87. 

Selected Jose Saramago Bibliography:
 Death with Interruptions
Seeing
All the Names
The Cave
Blindness

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and the Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird

A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West by Ian Johnson

The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South by Alex Heard

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Oren

Oprah's Summer Reading

Oprah adds to the growing collection of summer reading lists.

NPR's Summer Books

NPR has done another fine job with its 2010 Summer Books series.  Click here for a complete list of the books featured in the series.  

The Future of Books

The Chicago Tribune considers book culture in the age of e-books.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Orange Prize

Barbara Kingsolver (author website) won the 15th annual Orange Prize for Fiction for her sixth novel, The Lacuna.  Her other works include:  The Poisonwood Bible,  Prodigal Summer, The Bean Trees, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.  For a list of previous winners and finalists click here.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars by Jay Wexler

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise by Garret Keizer

The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History by John Samples

Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World by Abby Sallenger

Fictional Stars, Real Problems

The Wall Street Journal considers the novel trend of therapists using fictional characters for psychiatric training.

Indie Next List

Check out the recommendations from independent booksellers in the June Indie Next List.

New York Times Best Sellers

Click here for the latest New York Times best sellers lists.

Top 50 Business Books

From Bloomberg, the Top 50 Business Books published since January 2009.

15 Soaring Summer Reads

From NPR, independent booksellers pick 15 Soaring Summer Reads.

July Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming releases:

The Search by Nora Roberts
Shadow Zone by Iris Johansen
Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
Undead and Unfinished by MaryJanice Davidson
Thin, Rich, Pretty by Beth Harbison
Betrayed by Robert K. Tannenbaum
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
Stork Raving Mad by Donna Andrews
What Women Want: The Global Marketplace Turns Female Friendly by Paco Underhill
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke
Rules of Betrayal by Christopher Reich
Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
Damaged by Alex Kava
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen