Summer reading suggestions

Thanks to all who participated in the book group last night! We created a long list of recommended reads, so here it goes:

Non-fiction:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Kingsolver
India: An Illustrated History, Prem Kishore
The Templars, M. Haag
Worried Sick, N. Hadler
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
The Whale, Hoare
A Little History of the World, Gombrich
The Story of the World, Weisbauer (children's history, elementary level)

Historical fiction:
The King's Rose, 16th century England
Just Jane, fictionalized bio of Jane Austen
Kite Rider, set in China under the Huns
The Blood of Flowers, 16th Century Persia (NOTE: contains some intense scenes)
The Lighthearted Quest, Portuguese Escape, Illyrian Spring and other novels by Ann Bridge

General fiction (much of it YA):
The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd
The Alchemist, M. Scott, series (similar to Percy Jackson)
Isabel Dalhousie series and 44 Scotland Street series by A. McCall Smith
Elm Creek Quilt series
Beverly Lewis series (Amish romance/mysteries)
Hunger Games series
Leviathan, S. Westerfeld
Seven Towers, P. Wrede
The Last Apprentice, J. Delany
Last of the High Kings and others by Kate Thompson
Sarah Wolson mysteries (set in San Francisco)
The Underland Chronicles, Suzanne Collins (young readers)
Septimus Heaps series
Lips Touch Three Times, short stories
Much Ado About Nothing
Exodus and Zenith, apocalyptic YA novels
Incarceron, Fisher
The Dark Is Rising, S. Cooper
The Tricking of Freya (Icelandic immigrants in Canada)
I Dreamed of Africa, Kuki Gallmann
The Waves, Virginia Wolfe

I may not have caught all of them, but this is a pretty good starting point! Happy Reading!