Salt Lake City, Utah – If you're starting to plan your summer getaways, it's also time to start thinking about what books you'll tuck into your luggage. Wednesday, we're gathering our panel of local booksellers with their suggestions of the best reads this year. We're joined by Betsy Burton of The King's English, Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books and Catherine Weller of Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore. They'll bring new titles and some timely favorites.
Fire Season by Philip Connors, hardcover, 2011, Ecco Press, $24.99
History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary by John S. McCormick and Hohn R. Sillito (due 7/30/2011), hardcover, Utah State University Press, $37.95
Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone, hardcover, 2011, W.W. Norton & Co., $23.95
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, paperback, 2007, Citadel, $15.99
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer, hardcover, 2011, Penguin Press, $26.95
Mormon Rebellion: America's First Civil War, 1857-1858 by David Bigler and Will Bagley, hardcover, University of Oklahoma Press, $34.95
A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles, hardcover, 2011, McSweeney's Books, $29.90
Pale King by David Foster Wallace, hardcover, 2011, Little Brown & Company, $27.99
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild, hardcover, 2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28.00
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante (due 7/05/2011), hardcover, 2011, Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00
War by Sebastian Junger, paperback, 2011, $15.99
World of Geekcraft: Step-by-Step Instructions for 25 Supercool Craft Projects by Susan Beal, paperback, 2011, Chronicle Books, $19.95
Zazen by Vanessa Vaselka, paperback, 2011, Red Lemonade, $15.95
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson, Lytle Shaw, Bob Phillips, Diane Thater, Lynne Cook and Ann Reynolds , University of California Press, $45.00
Must Be the Season of the Ruess
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disapperanace of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer by David Roberts, Broadway Press, $25.00
Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife by Philip L. Fradkin, University of California Press, $24.95
The Mystery of Everett Ruess by W.L. Rusho, Gibbs Smith, $16.99
On Desert Trails With Everett Ruess by W.L. Rusho, Gibbs Smith, $75.00
Water, Water Everywhere
Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons by John Wesley Powell, Penguin Classics, $16.99
Colorado by Frank Waters, Swallow Press, $24.95
The Great Salt Lake by Dave Morgan, University of Utah Press, $19.95
The Outermost House by Henry Beston, Holt Paperbacks, $15.99
Killing the Hidden Waters by Charles Bowden, University of Texas Press, $17.95
The Everglades River of Grass by Marjory Stonemen Douglas, Pineapple Press, $17.95
Lands of the Arid Regions by John Wesley Powell, Grove Carl Gilbert and Clarence Edward Dutton, Nabu Press, $24.75
A River No More: The Colorado River and the West by Philip L. Fradkin, $27.95
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner, Penguin Press, $18.00
Down the River by Edward Abbey, Plume Press, $16.00
The Secret Knowledge of Water by Craig Childs, Back Bay Books, $14.99
Pilgrim at Tinkers Creek by Annie Dillard, Harper Perennial, $14.99
The River Why by David James Duncan, Sierra Club Books, $14.95
Livingston Suite by Jim Harrison, Limberlost Press, $165.00
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, University of Chicago Press, $12.00
Where Rivers Change Directions by Mark Spragg, Riverhead Trade, $15.00
The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner, Penguin Press, $16.00
Ravens Excile: A Season on the Green River by Ellen Meloy, University of Arizona Press, $17.95
Run, River, Run by Ann Zwinger, University of Arizona Press, $17.95
Poetry
Wild Dog Days by Gino Sky, Limberlost Press, $25.00
Juniper by Nancy Takacs, Limberlost Press, $25.00
Literature
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Penguin Press, $16.00
General Non-fiction
The Mormon Rebellion: Utah's First Civil War 1857-1858 by David Bigler and Will Bagley, University of Oklahoma, $35.00
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin by Charles Bowden and Molly Molloy, Nation Books, $15.99
The Life Times and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by William Alder,Bloomsbury Press, $30.00
