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Beach Reads: Alexandria's Choices
Patch readers offer their recommendations for good summer reads.
With beach season upon us, we reached out to Alexandria Patch readers on Facebook and Twitter for some suggested beach reads. The list we received is as diverse and interesting as you might expect.
Special thanks go out to the Del Ray Patch Facebook folks, who provided the bulk of the recommendations.
Without further ado, here’s the list:
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- “A Salty Piece of Land” by Jimmy Buffet
- “Slipping the Cable" by Bill Schweigart
- “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal” by Mary Roach
- “Anonymous Sources” by Mary Louise Kelly
- “Cooked” by Michael Pollan
- “Comet's Tale: How the Dog I Rescued Saved My Life” by Steven Wolf and Lynette Padwa
- “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline
- “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving
- “Cellist of Sarajevo” by Steven Galloway
- “The Outsider: A Memoir” by Jimmy Connors
- "Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan
- “Travels with My Aunt” and “Our Man in Havana” by Graham Greene
- “Wool” by Hugh Howey
- “The Bookseller of Kabul” by Ingrid Christophersen
- "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce
- "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
- New 52 “Batman and Robin” by Peter J. Tomasi
- “Most Talkative: Stories From the Front Lines of Pop Culture” by Andy Cohen
Have a good beach read suggestion? Tell us in the comments.
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