5 Top Picks from Oprah Magazine's Suggested Summer Reads

Summer is a perfect time for reading and what better place is there to get books from than your local library?

The July 2010 issue of The Oprah Magazine provides a great many titles to consider from all different genres, and many of those titles can be found here at the Brookfield Public Library.

Learn more about 5 of their top picks below. Then click on the book covers to place a hold on some of their top picks!

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender "encourages us all to make the most of our unique gifts while still finding a way to live in the so-called real world."  (NEW - FIC BENDER)   

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a "massively popular thriller/survival narrative/romance" and one of many great "books to steal from your teenager."  (YA FIC REBECCA CAUDILL COLLINS) Also available are its sequels: Catching Fire and Mockingjay.

My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira "perfectly evokes its eponymous heroine's style: clear, determined, and unlike most women of the Civil War era, unapologetically direct." (NEW - FIC OLIVEIRA)

Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey is "a novel of fierce attachments, charting the proximity of beauty and terror in the human soul." (FIC CAREY) 

Last but certainly not least is the bestselling novel The Passage by Justin Cronin. A story "of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief" that is "vital, tender, and compelling." (NEW - FIC CRONIN)

For additional and awesome summer reads, check out the July 2010 issue of The Oprah Magazine or ask for some readerly advice at the Information Desk here at the Brookfield Public Library.