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At the Bedford Lyceum on September 27, about 32 parishioners gathered to share their favorite summer reading. Below are the recommended titles.
- Aslett, Don. Clutters Last Stand: It’s Time to De-Junk Your Life (Ruth Bragg)
- Barry, John. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Bob Johnson)
- Benioff, David. City of Thieves: A Novel (Dave Packer)
- Blum, Jenna. Those Who Save Us (Emily King)
- Brooks, Geraldine. People of the Book: A Novel (Doris Smith)
- Corda, Michael. Ike, an American Hero (Bob Johnson)
- Cordery, Stacy. Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Ilona Johnson)
- de Rosnay, Tatiana. Sarah’s Key (Emily King)
- Dean, Debra. The Madonnas of Leningrad (Ginny Packer)
- Downey, Kirston. The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and his Moral Conscience (Joan Turnberg)
- Dumas, Alexander. The Count of Monte Cristo (Joan Turnberg)
- Eugenides, James. Middlesex (Irene Gravina)
- Gopnik, Adam. Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life (Merc Kane)
- Jacobs, A. J. The Year of Living Biblically (Dot Bergin)
- Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth (Althea Clark)
- Lamont, Annie. Crooked Little Heart: A Novel (Nancy Willet)
- Lang, Michael. The Road to Woodstock (Irene Gravina)
- Larson, Eric. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Merc Kane)
- Leon, Donna. Series of mysteries (Bob Batt)
- McCullough, David. Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870 - 1914 (Ron Green)
- Michaels, Anne. The Winter Vault (Meredith McCulloch)
- Miller, Mark. Amagansett (Ilona Johnson)
- Nakamura, Toshiko Eto. Nurse of Mansanar (Emily King)
- Oz, Mehmet and Michael Roizen. You: On a Diet: The Owner’s Guide to Waist Management (Ruth Bragg)
- Petterson, Per. Out Stealing Horses (Doris Smith)
- Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War (Dave Packer)
- Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (multiple)
- Steves, Rick. Travel as a Political Act (Meredith McCulloch)
- Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge (Ilona Johnson)
- Theroux, Paul. Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China (Paul Turner)
- Theroux, Paul. The Pillars of Hercules (Paul Turner)
- Tsukiyama, Gail. The Samurai’s Garden (Maria Green)
- Twain, Mark. Autobiography of Mark Twain (Ruth Bragg)
- Vowell, Sarah. The Wordy Shipmates (Doris Smith)
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