Clicking Our Heels – Summer Reading List
Summer
is almost over, but there still is time for a few great summer reads before
Labor Day. Here are a few suggestions from members of The Stiletto Gang.
Paula
Benson:
Gigi Pandian’s Accidental Alchemist
mysteries — The Accidental Alchemist, The Marauding Magician,
and The Elusive Elixir — I love the living gargoyle, Dorian
Robert-Houdin. His vegetarian recipes almost convince me to try that lifestyle.
Anything by Lori Rader-Day — The Black
Hour, Little Pretty Things, and The Day I Died — Her novels
will all keep you on the edge of your seat.
Lee S. Robinson’s Lawyer for the Dog
and Lawyer for the Cat — two great legal chick lit virtual journeys to
Charleston, SC. They will keep you laughing and turning pages.
Cathy
Perkins:
I’m a
little burned out on mysteries (perish the thought!) so this week, I’m reading
Kristin Hannah’s Firefly Lane; Lisa
Unger’s Ink and Bone; and Glen Erik
Hamilton’s Past Crimes (because you
can never not read mysteries).
Ann Love:
Lowcountry Bonfire by Susan M. Boyer
The Tell-Tale Tarte by Maya Corrigan
Death of a Bachelorette by Laura Levine
Down a Dark Road by Linda Castillo
Cat About Town by Cat Conte
Hollywood
Homicide by Kellye Garrett
Plum:
HOW EMOTIONS ARE MADE by Lisa Feldman
Barrett–a surprising and different twist on the brain and emotions. THE ACHIEVEMENT HABIT by Bernard Roth, a
Stanford engineer who has created a program to harness the wanna-save-the-world
ideals of young students.
Juliana Aragon Fatula:
Sherman
Alexie Memoir You Don’t Have to Say You
Love Me,
the absolute true diary of a part time
indian,
by
Denise Chavez: The King and Queen of
Comezon, A Taco Testimony, Meditations on Family, Food, and Culture, The
Last of the Menu Girls
by Joy
Harjo: A Map to the Next World
by
Leslie Marmon Silko: Storyteller
by
Louise Penny: How the Light Gets In
Linda Rodriguez:
I’ll go
with what I want to read myself (but probably won’t have a chance to until
summer’s gone).
REEK OF
RED HERRINGS by Catriona McPherson
MURDER ON THE RED RIVER by Marcie Rendon
GARDEN OF LAMENTATIONS by Deborah
Crombie
ARACHNID VERVE by Shauna Osborne
CITIZEN by Claudia Rankin
THE OBELISK GATE by N.K. Jemisin
IRRADIATED CITIES by Mariko Nagai
COURT OF FIVES by Kate Elliott
Jennae Phillippe:
Oh man. Whatever makes you
happy? I tend to go lighter in the summer, heavier in the winter. But I find
recommending books really hard. I would suggest people check out The Stiletto
Gang authors. 😛
Sparkle Abbey:
Anita: I
haven’t read as many books as I’d like. I’ve been reading meal prep cookbooks.
I finally finished Death but Tiara and Death of a Bachelorette by Laura Levine.
Mary
Lee: I’m doing a lot of reading different things this summer. Mysteries,
of course, women’s fiction, and non-fiction. Some I’d recommend are: Flight
Patterns by Karen White; Death of a Bachelorette by Laura Levine, and The
Knowledge Illusion by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach.
Kay Kendall:
Howzell Hall
*Kilmoon: A County Clare Mystery by Lisa Alber
*Quiet Neighbors: A Novel by Catriona McPherson
*The Darkest Secret: A
Novel by Alex Marwood
