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 Jonathan Kirsch
is a book columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the author of the bestselling MOSES: A LIFE and the critically acclaimed THE HARLOT BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. He lives in Los Angeles.
KING DAVID: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel
"Anyone who reads [this] entertaining and often enlightening account will come away with a solid understanding of David's life and legacy." - San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Kirsch's Summer Reading List
BEE SEASON
by Myla Goldberg
Rarely has my wife, Ann, recommended a book with more ardor than BEE SEASON, a novel about a precocious young girl who distinguishes herself as a spelling bee champion and transforms her family with shocking results. It's at the top of my summer reading list.
THE HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
by K.C. Cole
I am a big fan of K. C. Cole's newspaper column, "Mind and Matter," which brilliantly explains the world of science to non-scientists. Her latest book is about the mind-bending concept of emptiness in advanced physics --- "a book about nothing," as she puts it.
THROUGH ANOTHER LENS: My First Years with Edward Weston
by Charis Wilson and Wendy Madar
On my office wall is a framed reproduction of Edward Weston's 1938 photograph of Charis Wilson, one of the great loves of his life. After seeing an exhibition of photographs by Weston at the Art Institute of Chicago called "The Last Years at Carmel," featuring the last shots that he made of Charis, I picked up my copy of her memoir with new interest.
FIRE
by Sebastian Junger
I am lucky enough to have the bound galleys for the latest book by the author of THE PERFECT STORM. As a devoted reader of survival stories and "armchair adventure," I loved THE PERFECT STORM, and I am looking forward to FIRE.
THE BLIND ASSASSIN
by Margaret Atwood
I have already read Margaret Atwood's masterpiece in print, but I have a wonderful unabridged recording of the book, and I always find something new when I listen to a book I love on tape.
EMPIRE FALLS
by Richard Russo
Because I loved NOBODY'S FOOL so much
DANCING IN CADILLAC LIGHT
by Kimberly Willis Holt
Because it's a young adult book, and I admired WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN.
BREATHING UNDERWATER
by Alex Flinn
A young adult book and my editor's recommendation
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