You didn’t think Oprah was going to let you laze around on the beach all summer, did you? Not only is there a 2009 Summer Reading List in July issue of O, the Oprah Magazine; she also created a Summer Reading Calendar , in printable book mark form, with an assignment per week:
June 19 – June 26 Yes, My Darling Daughter
June 26 – July 3 Let the Great World Spin
July 3 – July 10 Heroic Measures
July 10 – July 17 What I Thought I Knew
July 17 – July 24 Dreaming in Hindi
July 24 – July 31 Essential Pleasures
July 31 – August 7 A Moveable Fea
June 19 – June 26
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Retail Price: |
$25.00 |
Hardcover: |
352 pages |
Publisher: |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux – (2009-04-14) |
ISBN / EAN: |
0374126011 / 9780374126018 |
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June 26 – July 3
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Retail Price: |
$25.00 |
Hardcover: |
368 pages |
Publisher: |
Random House – (2009-06-23) |
ISBN / EAN: |
1400063736 / 9781400063734 |
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July 3 – July 10
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Retail Price: |
$23.00 |
Hardcover: |
208 pages |
Publisher: |
Pantheon – (2009-06-30) |
ISBN / EAN: |
0375425225 / 9780375425226 |
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July 10 – July 17
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Retail Price: |
$24.95 |
Hardcover: |
208 pages |
Publisher: |
Viking Adult – (2009-07-09) |
ISBN / EAN: |
0670020958 / 9780670020959 |
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July 17 – July 24
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Retail Price: |
$26.00 |
Hardcover: |
384 pages |
Publisher: |
Houghton Mifflin Co – (2009-07-07) |
ISBN / EAN: |
0618155457 / 9780618155453 |
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July 24 – July 31
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Retail Price: |
$29.95 |
Hardcover: |
528 pages |
Publisher: |
W.W. Norton & Co. – (2009-04-06) |
ISBN / EAN: |
0393066088 / 9780393066081 |
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July 31 – August 7
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Retail Price: |
$25.00 |
Hardcover: |
256 pages |
Publisher: |
Scribner – (2009-07-14) |
ISBN / EAN: |
1416591311 / 9781416591313 |
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If you want extra credit, Oprah lists an additional 18 titles on the Reading List. For those who insist on the beach, she also has a list of “20 Tantalizing Beach Reads.”
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