NEH Summertime Favorites List

The National Endowment for the Humanities hopes you will consider revisiting the classics as you develop your summer reading list.

NPR Picks Five Must-Read Books For a Woman

Karen Grigsby Bates recommended these books to National Public Radio “as good company if and when you manage to grab a little quiet time.”

Shop the List From the National Book Awards from 2008

Shop Across Texas Best Page Turner Award

From New York Times bestselling author, Dennis Lehane, The Given Day is a page-turner with strong characters from two families in post WWI Boston. “Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time–including the Spanish Influenza pandemic—and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of itself. As Danny, Luther and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation and hope that will change all their lives.”

We sent a questionnaire to book clubs across the state to find out what they’re reading this year. Here’s the list from one group of smart and successful Dallas women.

Extra Extraordinary Chickens by Stephen Green | $16.47

Glamour photography with a twist. It’s all at once funny and fabulous.