bigalbooks | Quintessential Summer Reads @bigalbooksforever | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Hi all! I’m not ready to say goodbye to summer, so I wanted to reminisce about some of the standout books I read during July & August. What do you think makes for a perfect summer read?


~~Books Mentioned~~


-When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations (ed. Joy Hard)
-Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan
-The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
-The Bay of Noon - Shirley Hazzard
-A House in the Country - Jose Donoso (Trans. David Prichard)
-Cereus Blooms at Night - Shani Mootoo
-The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim - Marcia Douglas
-Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid
-The Bridge of Beyond - Simone Schwarz-Bart (trans. Barbara Bray)
-Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
-Moby Dick - Herman Melville




~~Music Mentioned~~
Foundation Roots Reggae Mix: youtube.com/watch?v=MjL0ipgT7xg