Summer Reading & Viewing list

Started this thread to get summer reading & TV/Moview viewing list.

First reading suggestion Blink is already in.

Bring on your suggestions

Attaching Kqed's summer list. Some of the things stand out on first glance are,
- The Assault on Reason, Al Gore
- The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
- Finding an Angel to Fund Your Business, Joseph Bell

=======Kqed listener suggestions ====
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll
Lost City Radio, Daniel Alarcon
Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
The Butcher of Beverly Hills, Jennifer Colt
The Mangler of Malibu Canyon, Jennifer Colt
The Vampire of Venice Beach, Jennifer Colt
Liberty Falling, Nevada Barr
High Country, Nevada Barr
Lisa's Travel Diary, privately published, no author specified
The Medici Conspiracy, Peter Watson
A Journal of Ramblings, Joseph Le Conte, published by Yosemite Press
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vincent Bugliosi
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Sons, Khaled Hosseini
Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Finding an Angel to Fund Your Business, Joseph Bell
The Terracotta Dog, Andrea Camilleri
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Taking The War Out of Our Words: The Art of Powerful Non-Defensive Communication by Sharon Ellison
Power, Faith and Fantasy, Michael B. Oren
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
The Assault on Reason, Al Gore
The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Michael Chabon
The Gravedigger's Daughter, Joyce Carol Oates
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989, by Michael Beschloss
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
Imperium, Robert Harris
Pompeii, Robert Harris
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Betraying Our Troops, Dina Rasor
1968, Mark Kurlansky
Salt, Mark Kurlansky
Cod, Mark Kurlansky
The Basque History of the World, Mark Kurlansky
Providence of a Sparrow, Chris Chester
The Last Days of the Incas, Kim MacQuarrie
What to Eat, Marian Nestle
Kushiel's Justice, Jacqueline Carey
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Robert Drury and Tom Clavin
West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief, Steven Kotler
The Places In Between, Rory Stewart
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
The Magician and the Cardsharp, Karl Johnson
The Bread Bible, Rose Levy Beranbaum
The Pie Bible, Rose Levy Beranbaum
The Cake Bible, Rose Levy Beranbaum
Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies, Alice Medrich
Sweet Minature, Flo Braker
How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman
The River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Peter Hessler
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Short Bus, Jonathan Mooney
The Untold Story of Milk, Ron Schmid
Last of the Breed, Louis L'Amour
Ordeal by Hunger, George R. Stewart