Summer's Best Reads

Before you hightail it to the beach this summer, see what local booksellers recommend as must-reads for summer 2007.

Staff picks, Lemuria Books, Jackson

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

3. A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown

4. The Wilde Women by Paula Wall

5. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Lyn Roberts, Square Books, Oxford

1. Somebody is Going to Die if Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch that Bouquet: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Wedding by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays

2. The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan

3. Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from up South by Roy Blount, Jr.

4. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

5. Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead

Jamie and Kelly Kornegay, TurnRow Book Co., Greenwood

1. Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace

2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

3. A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent

4. The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan

5. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Laura Weeks, Lorelei Books, Vicksburg

1. New Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei Codrescu

2. Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly by Robert Dalby

3. The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell

4. Iraq and Back: Inside the War to Win the Peace by Col. Kim Olson

5. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Mary Dayle McCormick, McCormick Book Inn, Greenville

1. Ham Bones by Carolyn Haines

2. In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counter-Revolution by Joseph Crespino

3. A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein

4. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

5. The River Where America Began by Bob Deans