Summer reading in Las Vegas: Libraries, new local titles, and that New York Times list

Summer is for book lovers.

And this has been a momentous summer for readers in Las Vegas. Besides all the summer programs happening at the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District and the numerous book clubs happening across the valley, two notable local authors released books: author and UNLV professor Wendy Chen's Their Divine Fires and poet and UNLV emeritus professor Donald Revell's Canandaigua.

And then there's that buzzy New York Times list for the top 100 books of the 21st century.

Here's a list of books mentioned and/or recommended by State of Nevada panelists, producers, and listeners:

Books mentioned by panelists:

• Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Sutanto
• Ghost of, Diana Khoi Nguyen
• Selected Poems, Adam Zagajewski
• Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
• Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
• The Women, Kristin Hannah
• Court of Thorn and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
• The Divine Comedy, Dante
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Mentions from the New York Times' Top 100 Books of the 21st Century:

• Citizen, Claudia Rankine
• Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
• Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
• Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
• My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
• The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

KNPR audience recommendations:

• It Must Be a Misunderstanding, Coral Bracho (translated by Forrest Gander)
• Everybody’s Fool, Richard Russo
• The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
• The Secret River, Kate Grenville
• Prophet Song, Paul Lynch
• A Natural History of the Mojave Desert, Lawrence R. Walker and Frederick H. Landau
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• The Power of Eight, Lynne McTaggart
• It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
• Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power, Timothy W. Ryback
• Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Goldhagen
• Last Train From Berlin: An Eye-Witness Account of Germany at War, Howard K. Smith

Nevada Public Radio staff recommendations:

• Pasta, Pane, Vino, Matt Goulding
• Red, White, and Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
• 300, Frank Miller
• The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power, Deirdre Mask
• Prophet Song, Paul Lynch
• Gun With Occasional Music, Jonathan Lethem
• Geek Love, Katherine Dunn

Guests: Scott Clonan, branch manager, Sunrise Library; Wendy Chen, author; Donald Revell, poet