Summertime and Shaker Residents Are Reading

What's on your summer reading list? Shaker Library staff have been busy checking out some popular books this season. Clearly residents like to read James Patterson. His books have sold more than 300 million copies, and he was the first author to sell 1 million e-books, so it's no wonder that three of his latest books co-authored with others are top checkouts from Shaker Library. The prolific author has shared his success by founding the James Patterson and Scholastic Books Giveaway for Classroom Libraries. (Teachers take note, the site considers entries through July 31.)

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng continues to be popular with Shaker residents. Set in Shaker Heights and written by a Shaker Heights High School graduate, the book is guaranteed to spark conversation with residents.

David Baldacci's audiobook, Redemption, has been a popular checkout. Narrated by Kyf Brewer and Orlagh Cassidy, it is the fifth in Baldacci's Amos Decker series. As you're listening to the suspenseful story it will also warm your heart to know that Baldacci and his wife, Michelle, are the co-founders of the Wish You Well Foundation, which supports adult and family literacy in the United States.

"Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. " Lawyer and author John Grisham has written another legal suspense that Shaker readers are enjoying. Socially conscious readers will be pleased to learn that when he isn't writing, Grisham serves on the Board of The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 at Cardozo School of Law, which exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

With over 70 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times author of thirty one mystery novels and thrillers. What his readers may not know is that he was the first writer in more than a decade to be invited to write fiction for the New York Times op-ed page. His Father’s Day short story, The Key to My Father, appeared June 15, 2003.

Shaker readers are also checking out the New York Time bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing, 70-year-old nature writer and zoologist Delia Owens' first novel. Listen to an interview with her on CBS News.

Jodi Picoult, named one of Princeton University's top 25 influential living alumni, is another popular writer and her latest book, A Spark of Light, is a favorite with Shaker readers. Reviewers have commented that Picoult "sees humans at their best, while understanding them at their most fragile." Her latest book, which tackles the abortion issue, proves this to be true.

Looking for entertaining, page-turning fiction? Check out Nine Perfect Strangers by Australian author Liane Moriarty. Read the book and imagine the characters before it's turned into a movie.

These are just a few of the many books, audiobooks, and ebooks available at the Shaker Library where staff is always available to offer recommendations to suit every reader's taste.

Shaker Library's Summertime Top Ten
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Redemption by David Baldacci

The Cornwalls Are Gone by Brendan DuBois and James Patterson

Run Away by Harlan Coben

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult

The Reckoning by John Grisham

The 18th Abduction by Maxine Paetro and James Patterson

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

Liar Liar by Candice Fox and James Patterson