The Adult Summer reading game is going strong with several winners to date. Perhaps some of you are already winners and looking forward to finding new suggestions or maybe you’re ready to try your hand at winning. The game ends August 15th, which leaves plenty of time to start a new book or finish the one you have in your hands. For those of you who are finding it hard to find time to read, don’t forget to give audiobooks a try. I love listening to a good audiobook while I’m gardening or walking the dog.
Below are a few Bay Area authors you’ll find both in book format and in audiobook format.
I’ll start with one of my favorite Bay Area authors, Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Path of Minor Planets, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, an exquisitely sad love story and his most recent bestseller and critically acclaimed, The Story of a Marriage.
I don’t think it’s possible talk about the talent of the Bay Area without mentioning Khaled Hosseini. Author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini’s haunting tales take place in his native Afghanistan with all too human characters that resonate with his readers. The fact that The Kite Runner spent more than two years on the New York Times Bestsellers list and was later made into a movie is a tribute to his talents.
In keeping with authors whose characters and situations remain with us long after we put down the book, or our audio headphones, let me add Daniel Mason to this group. Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner and A Far Country. In The Piano Tuner, Mason takes us from 19th Century London to Burma. The New York Times wrote that Mason’s “powerful prose style and his ability to embrace history, politics, nature and medicine within a fully imagined 19th-century fictional world would be notable in any writer…”
These are just a few of the Bay Area authors you’ll find in audiobook format. Not having time to sit down and read shouldn’t stop you from playing our Summer Reading Game.
