Summer reading and recommendations

With the summer break just a few days away, we are looking forward to some reading time. Take a look at what our library staff are reading and recommending, and if any of the linked titles peak your interest, you can request them through Primo Search.

• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
• Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut 

Terra

• Book of Dust by Phillip Pullman
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Surgeon of Crowthorne : A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss 

Adele

• The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser 
• Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks (yes, THE Tom Hanks) 

• The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm, and Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
• A Thousand Autumns of Jakob De Zoet by David Mitchell
  
• Gut by Giulia Enders
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Karen K

• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• See Me by Nicholas Sparks
• The happiest refugee: my journey from tragedy to comedy by Anh Do
• Working class boy by Jimmy Barnes
• The boys in the boat : Nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel Brown

• Night Film by Marisha Pessl
• Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
• Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1: Squirrel Power  by Ryan North, illustrated by Erica Henderson
• Fables Vol. 9: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham, illustrated by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Mike Allred and Andrew Pepoy

Keep cool this summer and happy reading!