wpostServer: http://css.washingtonpost.com/wpost
Summer reading: D.C. celebrity and politician picks A list of what local celebrities and politicians are looking forward to reading this summer, followed by The Washington Post’s summer reading picks.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, secretary of state
"Anything that's not a six-inch three-ring binder of briefing material."
Brendan McDermid
/
Reuters
Related Content
Bob McDonnell, governor of Virginia
"Washington: A Life " by Ron Chernow (Penguin).
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the first president.
Nikki Fox
/
AP
Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of "PBS NewsHour"
"Beastly Things" by Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly).
A body with few identifying marks washes up in a canal, posing a forensics challenge for Commissario Brunetti.
Nikki Kahn
/
The Washington Post
Diane Rehm, host of "Diane Rehm Show"
"Traveler of the Century" by Andres Neuman (Farrar Straus Giroux).
A man finds himself trapped in an existential debate with an old organ-grinder.
Michael Temchine
/
Freelance
Barbara Mikulski, U.S. senator from Maryland
"Cleopatra: A Life ," by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown).
Schiff clears up centuries of myth surrounding one of history’s most compelling and famous women.
Bill O'Leary
/
The Washington Post
Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s "Hardball"
"They Eat Puppies, Don’t They ?" by Christopher Buckley (Twelve).
A satire of U.S.-China relations.
Matt McClain
/
For The Washington Post
Cathy L. Lanier, D.C. chief of police
"The Hypnotist" by Lars Kepler (Farrar Straus Giroux).
After a young boy’s family is murdered, a detective turns to a hypnotist to pry clues from him.
Mark Gail
/
Washington Post
Ben Cardin, U.S. senator from Maryland
"Calico Joe " by John Grisham (Doubleday).
Joe Castle is a rookie phenom until one fast pitch changes several lives forever.
Chip Somodevilla
/
Getty Images
Jim Webb, U.S. senator from Virginia
"Eisenhower in War and Peace ," by Jean Edward Smith (Random House).
A biography of the World War II general who became president.
Saul Loeb
/
AFP/Getty Images
Click through to see picks by Washington Post staff.
Reuters
/
Charles Platiau
"Arcadia: A Novel" by Lauren Groff (Voice, $25.99)
A poignant and gorgeously written novel about a young man raised on a failed commune in upstate New York.
Voice
/
Hyperion
"Behind the Beautiful Forevers" (Random House, $27) by Katherine Boo
The lives of residents of a Mumbai slum are chronicled in this astonishing and deeply reported account.
/
Random House
"Bring Up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt, $28)
Mantel follows up her Booker-winning "Wolf Hall" with another tale of Thomas Cromwell, who plots to end the failing marriage between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
Henry Holt and Co.
"Canada" by Richard Ford (Ecco, $27)
A magnificent novel about the young son of two inept bank robbers.
Ecco
"House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East" by Anthony Shadid (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26)
The late American foreign correspondent rebuilds a house his great-grandfather owned in Lebanon.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
"Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam" by James G. Hershberg (Stanford University, $39.50)
U.S. policymakers missed an opportunity to end the Vietnam War in 1966, instead opting for a bombing campaign that led to more years of war and domestic upheaval.
Woodrow Wilson Center
/
Stanford University Press
“Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbottabad” by Peter L. Bergen(Crown, $26)
Even with the media saturation of these events, Bergen manages to make the story of Osama bin Laden’s end into a real-life thriller.
"The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity" by Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy (Simon & Schuster, $32.50)
The special relationships among America's post-World War II presidents.
Simon & Schuster
"The Song of Achilles: A Novel" by Madeline Miller (Ecco, $25.99)
A moving retelling of Homer's "Iliad," about love and war -- and the roots of revenge.
Ecco
"The Stonecutter: A Novel" by Camilla Lackberg (Pegasus, $25.95)
Lackberg may be the heir to Agatha Christie, and her richly textured mystery of a spate of murders in a fishing village adds to that claim.
Pegasus Books
And here is what we're looking forward to this fall.
© Charles Platiau / Reuters
/
Reuters
"Back to Blood: A Novel" by Tom Wolfe (Little, Brown, Oct. 23)
Wolfe delievers his fourth giant novel, this time about drugs, murder and immigration in Miami's Biscayne Bay.
Little, Brown
/
Little, Brown
"Dear Life: Stories" by Alice Munro (Knopf, Nov. 13).
The Canadian Booker Prize-winner returns to Lake Huron with a new collection of short stories.
Knopf
"The End of Men: And the Rise of Women" by Hanna Rosin (Riverhead, Sept. 11).
A Washington journalist describes the radical culture shift taking place as women pull ahead of men.
Riverhead
/
Penguin Group
"Hallucinations" by Oliver Sacks (Knopt, Nov. 6).
Sacks, a physician and best-selling author, considers hallucinations culturally and scientifically.
Knopf
"Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin" by Michael D. Lemonick (Walker, Oct. 16).
The race to find a planet like ours using the newest technology.
Walker & Co.
/
Walker & Co.
"The Oath: The Obama White House v. the Supreme Court" by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday, Sept.18).
The confrontational relationship between the Obama's White House and Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court, and the landmark cases on the docket.
Doubleday
"Telegraph Avenue: A Novel" by Michael Chabon (Harper, Sept. 11).
The Pulitzer Prize-winner's new novel is about two men in California trying to preserve their neighborhood against gentrification and thereby save a beloved record shop.
Harper
/
Harper
"The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel" by Justin Cronin (Ballantine, Oct. 16).
Book II of the widly popular vampire "Passage" trilogy.
Ballantine Books
"Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence" by William L. Silber (Bloomsbury, Sept. 4).
Silber relies on interviews and access to Volcker's personal papers to tell the story of the Fed chairman's political and economic battles under five presidents.
Bloomsbury USA
The Casual Vacancy, by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown, Sept. 27).
The creator of Harry Potter publishes her first novel for adults: the story of a sleepy town upset by the bid to replace a parish council member.
Suzanne Plunkett
/
Reuters
FEATURED PHOTO GALLERIES
Photos of the day
Buddhist Wesak festival, prisoners-of-war reunion, bridge collapse, world’s largest Lego model and more.
Flexing their muscles
Dozens of bodybuilders came out to Silver Spring to compete in the 2013 Musclemania Capital Tournament of Champions.
Animal views
Fun and fascinating creatures around the world.
???initialComments:true! pubdate:06/05/2012 17:43 EDT! commentPeriod:14! commentEndDate:6/19/12 5:43 EDT! currentDate:5/24/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:false! displayComments:true!
Section:/conversations
Loading...
Comments