Summer Reading Picks from the Marquand Staff
Now that the weather is finally starting to warm up in Seattle, the staff at Marquand had some fun cherry-picking books fit for long, lazy days of summer reading. Here’s a handful of our favorites:
Art/Craft/Photography:
Adrian: Seven Days in the Art World, Sarah Thornton (W.W. Norton)
Oleya: Los Alamos, William Eggleston (Scalo)
John: Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950, Jim Linderman & Luc Sante (Dust-to-Digital)
Zach: BLDGBLOG Book, Geoff Manaugh (Chronicle)
Marie: Shoe Fleur: A Footwear Fantasy, Michel Tcherevkoff (Welcome Books)
Oleya: Knitting In The Sun: 32 Projects for Warm Weather, Kristi Porter (Wiley)
Sara: Family, Lauren Dukoff (Foreword by Devendra Banhart) (Chronicle)
John: Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records The First Fifty Years, Warren Zane (Chronicle Books)
Food:
Sara: Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine, Bryant Terry (Da Capo)
Keryn: Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist, Ingrid Hoffmann (Clarkson Potter)
Marissa: Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School, Katherine Darling (Atria)
Keryn: A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, Anthony Bourdain (Harper Perennial)
Zach: Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods, Eugenia Bone (Random House)
Non-Fiction/Travel:
Jeff: New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City, Andrei Codrescu (Algonquin Books)
Zach: Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, James Elkins (Routledge)
Jeremy: Emergency, This Book Will Save Your Life, Neil Strauss (Harper)
Keryn: Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure, Sarah Macdonald (Broadway)
Marissa: 90 Classic Books for People in a Hurry, Henrik Lange (Nicotext)
Adrian: Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer (Vintage)
Keryn: My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, Susan Orlean (Random House)
John: Pictures from Here, Sunil Gupta (Chris Boot)
Fiction:
Maggie: A Room With A View, E. M. Forster (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Keryn: A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle (Vintage)
Jeff: Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (Penguin Classics)
Jeremy: Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam Adult)
Maggie: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins)
Brynn: Unaccustomed Earth: Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri (Vintage)
Jeremy: The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, Catherine Harris (Penguin Group)
Marissa: The Domino Men, Jonathan Barnes (William Morrow)
Brynn: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (Riverhead Trade)
John: The Dead All Have the Same Skin, Boris Vian (Tam Tam)
Maggie: Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, Kazu Kibuishi (Viper Comics)
Adrian: The Fifth Woman, Henning Mankell (Vintage)
Marissa: Shanghai Girls, Lisa See (Random House)
Have a favorite summer book to add? Leave it for us in the comments!
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