Summer Reads: Bookstore Picks

Bookish escapes from coast to coast

With the sun and sand comes more opportunities to read. Even if you don’t use them to conquer Proust, you’re brain has to melt along with your ice cream, so here are some fun yet quality suggestions from the pros…  

Brookline Booksmith 
Brookline, MA

For Moms:
Blueprints for Building Better Girls, Elissa Schappell 

Rules of Civility, Amor Towles

Maine, J. Courtney Sullivan

The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta

For Kids:  
I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klassen

Dragons Love Tacos, Adam Rubin

Greyhound of a Girl, Roddy Doyle

Outside Your Window, Nicola Davies

Tattered Cover 
Denver, CO

For Moms:
Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson

The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker

For Kids:
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat, Dave Shelton

Ghost Knight, Cornelia Funke

Children’s Book World  
Los Angeles, CA

For Kids:
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall

Lottie’s New Beach Towel, Petra Mathers

Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin

Feeling Sorry for Celia, Jaclyn Moriarty 

City Lights 
San Francisco, CA 

For Moms:
Are You My Mother?, Alison Bechdel

The Local World: Poems, Mira Rosenthal

Friends, Followers, and the Future, Rory O’Connor